I write and speak on matters organizational. Also, I love translating books that more people should read. Most publications are connected to my core interest in strategy implementation, but matters have shifted over time. Here is a list.

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Books

Books I have written or contributed to.

Urs Reupke & Steffi Baginsky
OKR wirkungsvoll einführen und nutzen
dpunkt.verlag, 2024
ISBN: 978-3-98889-014-6
An experiental introduction to objectives and key results.
Publisher’s website

L. David Marquet. Translated by Ralf Lethmate, Urs Reupke & Wolfgang Wiedenroth
Reiß das Ruder rum!
dpunkt.verlag, 2020
ISBN: 978-3-86490-737-1
A masterclass on leadership.
Publisher’s website

Tobias Mayer, Olaf Lewitz, Urs Reupke & Sandra Sieroux
The People’s Scrum (2nd Ed.)
dpunkt.verlag, 2017
ISBN: 978-3-86490-533-9
Essays on Scrum and organisations. Some actionable, some philosophical.
Publisher’s website

Articles & Papers

Articles published in journals, magazines, and online publications.

Urs Reupke
19+1 Fragen über OKR
agile review 1/2025
A best of article of sorts, answering common questions on OKR.
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Urs Reupke
Strategisches Alignment – klassisch oder modern?
agile review 2/2023
Lessons for leadership from the history of OKR. A companion piece to my talk on Napoleon and von Blücher at T4AT22.
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Urs Reupke & Stefan Roock
Agiles Backlog-Management
agile review XMAS/2023
A deep dive in structuring and working with the product backlog as a product manager.
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Urs Reupke
Kurz & Knapp: Das Entwicklungsteam
agile review Sonderausgabe/2021
A short treatise on developers in Scrum.
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Urs Reupke
Kurz & Knapp: Empirische Prozesskontrolle
agile review 2/2021
A short treatise on empiric process control.
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Urs Reupke
Kurz & Knapp: Product Backlog Refinement
agile review 2/2021
A short treatise on product backlog refinement.
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Urs Reupke & Stefan Roock
Neinsagen für Product Owner
agile review 1/2021
Techniques to avoid meeting overload.
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Gregor Sälker & Urs Reupke
Darf es etwas weniger sein? – Wenn Meetings den Kalender sprengen
agile review 1/2021
Why denying requests is a core skill for product managers, leading to better products and more satisfied stakeholders. A companion piece to our talk at OOP19.
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Urs Reupke
Über Geld redet man, nicht?
agile review 1/2018
A report on the findings of a survey on agilists’ salaries, conducted late 2017. Of historical interest only.
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Urs Reupke & Henning Wolf
Die Neuerungen im Scrum Guide 2017
agile review 1/2018
A comparative review of changes in 2017’s revision of the Scrum Guide.
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Michael James. Translated by Urs Reupke & Peter Rössler
Scrum Master Checklist
Self-published, 2015
A checklist for Scrum Masters. The clue is in the title.
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Urs Reupke & Sandra Sieroux
Antifr-agil
agile review 1/2014
A light introduction to N.N. Taleb’s idea of antifragility.
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Urs Reupke
Alles Gute ist leicht: Die Crystal-Methodenfamilie
Objektspektrum 5/2011
An overview of Alistair Cockburn’s Crystal approach to methodology.
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Urs Reupke
Kontextbewusstsein: Ein Überblick
Paar/Szeder[Hrsg.]: Grundlagen des Autonomen Rechnens, 2003
A technical paper on context aware computer systems.
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Talks

Conference talks I held publicly. Most were given multiple times, this list has only the first showing.

Wann werden wir fertig? – Vorhersagen ohne Schätzen
OOP 2025 – Munich, Germany – 2025-03-07
Basics of statistical forecasting for product delivery. (Slides)

Von Mitläufern zu Mitdenkern – Kultur der Business Agilität
Solutions:Essentials 2024 – Hamburg, Germany – 2024-07-05
How leadership influences business capabilities. (Slides)

When will it be done? – An alternative to estimates
Scrum Alliance webinar series – Online – 2024-03-21
Basics of statistical forecasting for product deliver. In English. (Slides | Video)

Aufräumen mit OKR – Eine Einführung in die Methode
OKR Day 2024 – Online – 2024-02-29
An introduction to OKR. (Slides)

Produktvision und OKR: wie aus potenziellen Kontrahenten eine wirkungsvolle Allianz wird
Product Owner Day 2023 – Online – 2023-09-23
Thoughts on combining OKR and visionary product management. (Slides)

Von Napoleon zu OKR – Drei Ideen zu Alignment
Tools 4 Agile Teams 2022 – Online – 2022-12-02
Lessons for today’s leadership from the historic origins of OKR and mission command. (Slides | Video)

Reiß das Ruder rum - Von Gefolgsleuten zu Mitgestaltern (with Ralf Lethmate)
Agile Leader Day 2021 – Online – 2021-06-24
Getting to leadership on all levels, with core ideas from L. David Marquet. (Slides)

Nein-Sagen für Product Owner (with Stefan Roock)
OOP 2021 – Munich, Germany – 2021-01-22
Why denying requests is a core skill for product managers, leading to better products and more satisfied stakeholders. (Slides)

Shades of Scrum – Was Scrum in Unternehmen alles kann (with Stefan Roock)
SEACON 2015 – Hamburg, Germany – 2015-05-07
A report on variants of Scrum beyond the Scrum Guide. (Slides)

eXtreme Programming – Ein Rückblick (with Holger Bohlmann)
Berlin Days of Software Engineering 2013 – Berlin, Germany – 2013-09-27
Reflections on eXtreme Programming, 15 years later. (Slides)

Interviews, Podcasts etc.

Listen! Watch!

Mit OKR endlich leichtgewichtig starten
Lösung gefällig? with Wolf-Gideon Bleek – 2025-03-11
Introducing objectives and key results. (Video)

Veränderung mit iterativem Prozess begegnen
Lösung gefällig? with Wolf-Gideon Bleek – 2025-02-10
How to plan traditional long running projects iteratively. (Video)

Lean Forecasting
Lösung gefällig? with Wolf-Gideon Bleek – 2025-01-13
How to predict completion times using statistics. (Video)

OKRs und Scrum sinnvoll miteinander verbinden
Die Produktwerker with Oliver Winter – 2025-01-07
Oliver invited me to his show to learn about OKR and what OKR means for Scrum. Also, celebrating my new book on OKR. (Link)

Herausforderungen der Energiebranche
it-agile Energy series with Claudia Reitenbach & Urs Reupke – 2025-01-06
A long form discussion on current organizational challenges facing German utilities. (Video)

Ziele setzen
Lösung gefällig? with Wolf-Gideon Bleek – 2024-11-04
How changing markets impact German utilities, and what OKR, mission command and service design can do to help. (Video)

Visionäre Produkte
it-agile Summer of Product 2024 with Markus Gärtner & Urs Reupke – 2024-08-08
How to build a compelling product vision. (Video)

Produkte für Menschen
it-agile Summer of Product 2024 with Urs Reupke – 2024-07-12
Building user-centered products. (Video)

Bessere Produkte durch wirkungsfokussierte Planung
it-agile Summer of Product 2024 with Urs Reupke – 2024-06-27
Planning tools to put outcome over output. (Video)

Team Alignment mit OKR
Software Testing Podcast with Richard Seidl – 2023-06-11
At OOP 2023, Richard and I spoke about the core ideas of objectives & key results and how they apply to software teams. (Link | Video)

The core cycle of agile product development
Drunken PM Radio with Dave Prior – 2019-07-19
Dave invited me to his show to learn more about the core cycle of product development and how it pertains to agile. (Link)

Scrum & agile workflow
zFace with Denis Zelchenok – 2017-11-15
An interview on many things Scrum, ranging from org-level implementation to team-level challenges. (Video)