Does this sound familiar?
This feeling that …
- Your team isn’t reaching its full potential.
- External expectations are hardly being met.
- Team members aren’t working as a team. It’s more like, “Where is my ticket?”
- You’re highly dependent on one specific person, and this isn’t good.
- There’s a negative imbalance between the loud and the quiet people.
- Looking back things have slowed down more and more.
So your developers suffer in their own ways.
Each week I write about people like you who are facing these issues and offer brief, useful information, inspiration or insight to help people like us find better ways.
There must be a better way
Imagine
- … predictable deliveries
- … trust into your team
- … shared responsibility & knowledge
- … transparency within teams and throughout the company
- … customers experience your professionalism
- … people loving their job
Before you reach out to me, did you try this?
Did you give them at least a month to “clean up the code”?
>> Yes, but it didn’t take long before they asked again.
Have you tried training sessions?
>> Yes, but they’re hard to apply in our environment.
Tried Scrum?
>> Felt like a change first, now we drown in pointless meetings.
Tried an army of Agile coaches?
>> 😂😂😂
Why “Teamflowencer”?
The complex problems of today need to be solved by teams, not individuals.
Teams need focus. Focus creates flow, and flow gives us the wings to produce surprising and outstanding results.
Outstanding results keep us in business, which pays our salaries and supports our families.
Sometimes, things get lost along the way, and we need a helping hand to get back on track and readjust. A helpful voice can influence us positively.
“Teamflowencer” aims to express this concept in a single word (and it’s searchable on Google).
Manuela Barth
Scrum Master
“The teams increased their skills … would be a pleasure to work with Ralf again”
Ralf has a huge knowledge of agile methodologies. He combines this with a tremendous experience level of software design and architecture. The teams increased their skills in these topics – especially because Ralf uses well-shaped learning formats.
For me as a scrum master, it was always helpful to get his feedback and get into conversations with him. His mindful observations helped me to work with the team more effectively. It would be a pleasure to work with Ralf again.
Steffen Pramel
Product Owner
Alexandra Kimmel
Solution Architect
“He engaged every team member – thank you for the enlightening moments.”
I worked with Ralf on the “Sofortkredit Business” project. He advanced our project with his approach and always kept the professional and technical goals in sight. With his communication skills, he was able to engage every team member and consistently provided suggestions for improvement or new ways to achieve our goal in the best possible way. Thank you, Ralf, for the time we shared and for the consistently enlightening moments!
Maximilian Nazarati
Java Developer
“10/10 would work together again.”
Ralf’s way of working is admirable. He asks the correct questions (oftentimes the questions that others are afraid of asking) and encourages others to do so as well. This greatly improved the culture of the engineering team and gave us the courage to experiment further and build on top of the technical knowledge he introduced. This improvement in culture also helped us rethink and improve our Scrum workflow as well as our interaction with our customers.
On a more personal note, Ralf was an awesome senior and taught me a lot. All the pair programming and refactoring sessions were informative and fun.
10/10 would work together again if the opportunity presents itself.