Developer Career Check 2025 App
As a passionate software craftsman, I’m keeping a keen eye on trends in the IT world. To help me evaluate the changes we are likely to face in 2025 and under...
Self-Improvement
Taking Learning Notes in GitHub Equals Sharing Knowledge
Completing my LinkedIn profile, I discovered the projects feature that let’s you list past projects, and promptly added some GitHub references. It is interes...
It's not only time at work. It's your lifetime. Spend it with purpose.
Twelve months ago, I started one of my major development projects, together with an awesome team. Now, I have achieved my task of setting up this project and...
My First Week in Mastodon
One week ago, I created my first Mastodon account @stevenschwenke@digitalcourage.social and used it as my primary microblogging service, which was Twitter (@...
The Three-Project-Rule
During the last months, I have been working in a couple of different teams in parallel. Getting things done in such a setup needs another kind of organizatio...
New-Stuff-Lockdown final Status Report
This is the final report about my temporal stop starting new projects. (update #1, update #2). Progress Update Before digging into details, one thing is cl...
Time Budget
This is a short article about a concept that could have massive mind-hacking effects. Years ago, when I first organized workshops for my employer, I got a “t...
Don't Snack Candy Tasks all the Time
The other day, I wrote about “Candy Tasks”. These small tasks that can be completed in a few minutes and without much effort. If finished, they provide a nic...
New-Stuff-Lockdown Status Report 2
Earlier, I decided to temporarily stop starting new projects to allocate resources to where I can make the greatest positive impact, and I reviewed my progre...
New-Stuff-Lockdown Status Report 1
Earlier, I decided to temporarily stop starting new projects to allocate resources to where I can make the greatest positive impact. This is the promised sta...
Initiating new-Stuff-Lockdown
The last months have been great in terms of good stuff happening both in my private and professional life. I’m very happy with the multiple projects I’m work...
Clifton Strengthfinder 2.0 – Introduction and my Personal Assessment
Since recently, my employer msg DAVID is using the Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 to improve the personal development of each employee and also promote better c...
Self-reflection - How I Learn
It’s the eve of my first visit of a conference that focuses on web development topics (EnterJS in Darmstadt, Germany). A couple of months ago, I would not ha...
When and how I use Timeboxing
For the last two weeks, I’ve been testing a new tweak for my self-management: Timeboxing. This article explains the principle and summarizes my insights. Wh...
Full-Time Event in Another City - Arrive a Day Early and Depart a Day Late
Given you visit a full-time event in another city, maybe a fair or a conference. What do you do when that event comes to an end? Do you rush to the airport t...
New Mission Statement For My Work As A Software Developer
There have been a lot of changes in the last months. My work as an employed software developer kind of got to a new level because of the changes in my projec...
Working in the Zone
As you might have noticed, my posts haven’t been as regular as usual in the last time. The reason for that is a new project that needs a lot of caretaking. M...
Minimizing (organizational) Variables
Gaming is part of IT. For me, it is a quite important one because my career started with computer games. While playing strategy games I noticed an interesti...
Making a dent in the universe - as a Java Developer?!
A couple of days ago, I finished reading „Rework“ by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. The book is about their enterprise 37 signals and mainly addr...
Six tipps for a successful start in a new project
After changing the company I work for, I became member of a new project team a couple of weeks ago. In this article I want to describe what tools I used and ...
New GTD and ZTD Links
I just added two links to the ZDT article: The GTD-Blogger Leo Babauta and the (german) Zen to Done is a good place to start with GTD.
SVN Repository With GTD-Templates
“Getting Things Done”, or GTD, is one of the most influencing books regarding self-management. With friends I set up a repository for templates. For more in...