Peter Häfliger
agile software developer and product owner
Zürich, Switzerland
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Peter has been working in the software industry since 2001. Since 2008, he's been with Avaloq, a leading financial technology and service provider, in various roles such as software developer, project manager, team lead, technical business analyst and scrum master. He currently serves as product owner of Avaloq's Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions. He has great interest in agile practices but also in more technical software engineering and programming topics, mathematical and algorithmic puzzles, language(s) and literature.
Often struggling to get to the point in everyday conversations, he has recently developed a certain passion for ignite talks. The strict format forces him to stay focused on his topic and allows him to experiment with words, rhythm and flow.
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wholesome talk - language patterns for feedback and learning
My personal blog's motto is "don't just talk agile, walk agile!" because I have always been well aware of the trap of merely using agile jargon instead of actually applying an agile mindset and living agile values.
However, I recently came to understand that while the "walk" is important, the "talk" has its own challenges. As L. David Marquet - the author of “Turn the Ship Around!” - shows in his second book “Leadership is Language”, some language patterns can actively promote diversity of opinion, invite feedback and foster learning, while others unintentionally limit diversity, suppress feedback and prevent learning.
That's why I would like to explore what I call "wholesome talk" in an agile work environment.
Meet me on the second floor - the importance of shared context
In this talk, I would like to further explore some of the ideas presented in an earlier talk at the DevOpsDays Vilnius 2025:
Why do we so often fail to understand each other even if we all seem to speak the same language? What can we do about it? And how does this relate to the concepts of shared context and culture maps?
The slides and a transcript of the previous talk can be found here: https://walkagile.com/blog/linguistic-silos/
DevOpsDays Zurich 2024 Sessionize Event
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