Karsten Heilig

[Michael Roth 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪 @MiRo_SPD]

Srebrenica. Over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys murdered in July 1995. A Genocide, in the middle of Europe.

The wound stays open as long as guilt is denied and responsibility refused.

Srebrenica is a warning to all of us: let’s serve peace and reconciliation. Even when it is hard.

[Frau Knüppelkuh @diesefrauO]

Besser kann ich es nicht ausdrücken:

(Quelle: TikTok)

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The world’s eyes are on the situation in the Middle East and the Gulf region. The Iranian regime’s constant strikes against its neighbors are significantly destabilizing markets and disrupting critically important energy supply routes.

Many around the world are now speaking about the protection of energy facilities, the inadmissibility of energy terror against entire nations, and free and safe navigation. All of this is indeed a global interest. Many of these statements repeat what Ukraine was saying back in 2022 and 2023 about Russia’s naval blockade of our ports and its attempts to deprive us of access to global trade.

For years, Russia has been doing to our energy system the same thing the Iranian regime is now doing to infrastructure in its own region. There can be no other motive for such deliberate aggression against energy – whether it is Russian strikes on our power plants and gas production, or the current strikes by the Iranian regime against everyone around it – other than to inflict suffering on entire nations. That is why it is so important that global cooperation, at least now, is able to provide real security responses for everyone, including Europe.

Strikes by the remnants of the Iranian regime against Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and other countries are in essence strikes against global stability and Europe’s energy security. Ukraine is ready to join common security initiatives to stabilize the situation as quickly as possible. Ukraine has long proposed creating realistic and effective instruments to hold accountable those who block maritime trade routes, destroy normal navigation, and target energy infrastructure. Ukraine endured this winter under Russian strikes. The Middle East and the Gulf region are now facing the same evil.

Russia and the Iranian regime are not helping each other by chance. They must be stopped, and it is the responsibility of every world leader to ensure real stability and guarantee security. Together, we are undoubtedly stronger.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Ian McKellen reads a poem called The First Letter to the Corinthians.

It was written by Artur Dron, Ukrainian Defender, writer, poet.

Please listen to it. These words are powerful and true.

"Love digs trenches and lives in them, gnawing on ice from a hacked up plastic bottle. When it suffers thirst at minus 20, love goes out on combat duty, enters firing positions with hernias, fever, prostatitis, with vast concussions, asthma, and allergies, with a high probability of not making it back.

And sometimes love closes its friends' eyes, wraps them in sleeping bags, and carries them away. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease.
Where there are tongues, they will be still. Where there is knowledge, it will pass away. Because sometimes when the shelling ceases, friends close love's eyes, wrap it in sleeping bags, and carry it away.
And then it passes on to the living."

(I've quoted my post with another essay by Artur Dron. If you haven't already, I strongly recommend that one, as well.)

📹: Ukraine WOW

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

U2 just dropped a powerful new video — filmed with Ukraine’s Khartiia unit in Kharkiv, a city on the frontline.

Watch it. This is music made where history is unfolding.

[Johann Wadephul @AussenMinDE]

4 years of bravery.
4 years of sacrifice.
4 years of unbreakable spirit.
4 years of defending freedom.

For us. For you. For #Ukraine. For Europe.

We 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇵🇱 stand behind you 🇺🇦 - as long as it takes.

[Karsten Heilig @KarstenHeilig]

Unruhige Hoffnung - Podcast Festival ❤️
Gestern Abend live mit Karte& Gebiet 🔥🔥

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

The company hired me to lead their "Agile Transformation."
I don't know what Agile means.
Nobody does.
That's why it works.

I make $425,000 a year.
To move sticky notes.
From left to right.
On a board.
The board is digital now.
The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses.
Progress.

Day one, I said "we need to break down silos."
Everyone nodded.
Silos are bad.
I don't know why.
But destroying them is a career.
My career.

I introduced "squads."
Squads are teams.
But disrupted.
We disrupted the teams into teams.
Different names.
Same people.
Same problems.
But Agile problems now.
Agile problems are strategic.

A senior engineer asked what we're actually changing.
I said, "The mindset."
He asked what that means.
I said, "It's a journey."
He asked where we're going.
I said, "Toward agility."
He asked what agility means.
I pointed at the sticky notes.
They were moving left to right.
That's velocity.
We have velocity now.

The VP of Engineering said two-week sprints don't fit their work.
I said, "That's waterfall thinking."
Waterfall is bad.
Like silos.
I don't know what waterfall is.
But I know it's bad.
She stopped talking.
Waterfall accusations end conversations.

We had a retrospective.
In the retro, we discussed what went wrong.
Everything went wrong.
We put it on sticky notes.
Then we moved the sticky notes.
Into a column called "Parking Lot."
The Parking Lot is where problems go to die.
It's full.
We don't look at it.
That's agile.

Velocity is up 40%.
I defined velocity.
I also defined the points.
I also defined the stories.
We're crushing it.
At the things I made up.
To measure.
Ourselves.

The CEO asked for ROI.
I showed a chart.
The chart went up.
Charts should go up.
This one did.
I didn't label the Y-axis.
Nobody asked.
Leadership is confidence.

We do standups now.
Every day.
We stand.
For 45 minutes.
Standing is agile.
Sitting is waterfall.
My legs hurt.
But we're transforming.

The transformation is now "Phase 3."
Phase 1 was assessment.
Phase 2 was implementation.
Phase 3 is "continuous improvement."
Continuous means forever.
Forever means job security.
I'm very secure.

My contract was extended.
Three more years.
For "cultural impact."
The culture is confused.
But impacted.

Agile transformation isn't about being agile.
It's about transforming.
Continuously.
Toward more transformation.
The destination is the journey.
The journey is billable.

[Karsten Heilig @KarstenHeilig]

Ready for Stranger Things 5/Part 2 🔥📺🍿
#StrangerThings

[Karsten Heilig @KarstenHeilig]

Wohoo, jetzt geht es los. Don't mess with me ...

[Karsten Heilig @KarstenHeilig]

Wir schauen das zusammen an

[Karsten Heilig @KarstenHeilig]

Bin jetzt bei Stranger Things Staffel 5.3 – einfach nur super, Gänsehaut! Und dann Diana Ross mit "Upside Down" dazu – passt einfach perfekt 🙌 #StrangerThings

[Karsten Heilig @KarstenHeilig]

Lass uns gehn

[Karsten Heilig @KarstenHeilig]

Ich werd die Welt verändern, werd endlich alles besser machen
Werd anfangen wieder klarzukommen und mal über mich selber lachen
Ich werd die Welt verändern, werd endlich alles besser machen
Werd anfangen wieder klarzukommen und mal über mich selber lachen

[Karsten Heilig @KarstenHeilig]

Scheiss aufs Freunde bleiben ...

[Karsten Heilig @KarstenHeilig]

Revolverheld .. Generation Rock

[Karsten Heilig @KarstenHeilig]

Der junge Adam Clayton am Bass😂

[Karsten Heilig @KarstenHeilig]

🤩 Super Auftakt! Neeve macht vor RevolverheldStimmung ! 🎶🎸 #LiveMusic #KonzertStimmung #Revolverheld

[Lena Berger @lena4berger]

“NATO was built to fight only one war: to save free Europe from Russian aggression. Ukraine is the only country fighting this war — and we’re still discussing, ‘Should we include them or not?’ Ukraine is the only country fulfilling NATO’s destiny!”

🙏🙏🙏 @Kasparov63

[Karsten Heilig @KarstenHeilig]

Coming-In 25 in Marburg ❤️