I’m giving a workshop on collaborative problem solving at the DevOps Transformation Day at DevOpsCon Berlin on June 15, 2026. Book your seat.

Collaborative Problem-solving – Establishing an Effective Culture With Working Practices to Deal Resiliently With Impediments

Boost your team’s collaborative problem-solving skills in this interactive mini-workshop, using hands-on games, exercises, and coaching cards. Learn how to spot and tackle issues early while creating a culture of psychological safety where everyone feels safe to speak up and contribute.

Every tech team hits blockers; outages, technical debt, flaky systems, impediments, or organizational issues. These aren’t just annoyances—they’re momentum killers. Left unchecked, they drain energy, slow down teams, and frustrate developers. This hands-on workshop is designed for modern product teams who want to break through the noise and move fast without breaking things. You’ll learn how to spot problems early before they derail your work, and will play a team game to dig into problems to discover the root causes and find solutions.

Let’s make teams better at fixing what’s really broken—fast and together.

What Attendees Walk Away With:

• Spot Signals: Level up your radar to catch early, subtle signs of trouble before things blow up.
• Problem Deep-Dive: Build your engineering skills to analyze issues—getting to the root causes.
• Take Action, Fast: Learn practical moves to tackle problems head-on or reduce their impact before they stall your team.
• Create a Speak-Up Culture: Explore making your team a psychologically safe space where everyone feels confident raising issues early.
• Team Power: Practice working side-by-side to squash blockers and keep momentum flowing.

Outline of the workshop:

• Exercise to recognizing problems, how to pick up signals as early as possible
• Learn about collaborative problem-solving and see what benefits it can bring
• Play a game to ideate solutions and define an approach for applying those
• Practice skills and techniques for cross-organizational learning from problems

This workshop consists of exercises and games that we will play in teams, like the impediment board game and agile coaching cards. It’s
learning by doing. Playing these games and doing the exercises will provide attendees with actionable ideas that they can use in their team(s) or organizations to deal effectively with impediments.

Attendees get free downloadable copies of the Impediment Board Game, and ebook Problem? What Problem? (value €30).

The workshop is based on my book Problem? What Problem?

DevOpsCon Berlin

DevOpsCon is the Conference for CI/CD, the Kubernetes Ecosystem, and Agile & Lean Business.

Because we want to ensure that the lively exchange of knowledge and ideas so typical of DevOpsCon Berlin continues to work well, we were one of the first in the conference industry to develop our hybrid concept.

You can choose to attend the conference either on-site or online from your home or office. In order to be accessible to all participants, all DevOpsCon tracks will be streamed live. Using professional video technology, all lectures and workshops will be broadcast live. And that’s not all: You can also get in touch with our speakers and expo partners, even if you won’t be there!