As a basketball coach I would face teams from time to time that had a premium scorer. Given the rules today, even a premium defender would not be able to check that scorer in a 1:1 situation. Even if he could, chances are high that he needs a break from time to time. The key was… Continue Reading →
In this short post I will describe two methods of autosuggestion that I used successfully when coaching basketball. It’s a post I have been contemplating for a while now, wondering if it had any value in the field of software testing, but while hearing Kim Knup‘s great talk on positivity at TestBash, I couldn’t help… Continue Reading →
It’s that time again, a major football tournament is ahead and teams are busy preparing and playing friendlies to test players, tactics and skills. Yesterday Germany played Hungary and this isn’t really the clash of titans it was 60 years ago. During the game players repeatedly showed and articulated their disagreement with the referee’s decisions…. Continue Reading →
One of my first posts was about teams and why they can be successful. To sum it up, there are five factors: A common goal rules role awareness dependency on each other for reaching goals awareness of this dependency What I want to elaborate today is how you can make a team bond more quickly… Continue Reading →
In the post I will give a short introduction to a teaching/learning method called whole-part-whole and how this is paralleled in agile software development. I was first introduced to the whole-part-whole method in a basketball coach certification course (yes, there are certifications outside of IT…). The guiding question was how complex content like game plays… Continue Reading →
Some will have noticed that I tweeted some Dick DeVenzio quotes during the last days: “What is said and what is meant and what is understood can be three very different things.” Dick DeVenzio — Christian Kram (@chr_kram) 19. Januar 2015 “If you are doing all things yourself or not getting them done at… Continue Reading →
I stumbled across this on twitter today: A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other. — Simon Sinek (@simonsinek) 17. November 2014 While I agree, I think there is more to it. I have been a basketball coach for almost… Continue Reading →