Coaching and Producing Value
David Hussman gave a great session on coaching called “Coaching and Producing Value” at Agile 2009.
Games and tough questions for Agile Adoption
Luiz Claudio Parzianello and Rafael Prikladnicki gave a talk at Agile 2009 titled “Logical Levels and Statistical Games: A Powerful Strategy for Agile Adoption”. Slides are available here.
SMART goals may not be that smart
I just blogged about Daniel Pink’s case around intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. This is a good lead-in for why SMART goals may be damaging to your organization.
Daniel Pink on Intrinsic & Extrinsic Motivation
Newsflash! Incentives and rewards are harmful to tasks that involve creativity. They bigger the reward, the more harmful. This is a must-watch video. Many thanks to Yves for posting this […]
Agile Enablement Battlefield
George Schlitz and Giora Morein gave a great presentation/workshop on Agile Enablement Battlefield. First off, let me say that I am not a big fan of military metaphors. I like […]
Top 10 tips for coaches
This is another talk from Agile 2009 – by Liz Sedly and Rachel Davies. I think it is an excerpt from their new book – Agile Coaching – but I […]
User Interface Engineering – Agile 2009 Banquet
Jared Spool gave a pretty good banquet keynote for Agile 2009 on User Interface Engineering. The main point is that is that very successful companies use amazing interfaces as a […]
Taking Responsibility to Learn and Grow
Christopher Avery gave a very interesting talk at Agile 2009 called How to Develop Your Leadership Power Daily: An Agile Approach to Growth. It was a very interesting talk about […]
ScrumMaster can be a tough job
I’m writing about a talk given by Paul Hodgetts at Agile 2009 called “ScrumMasters Considered Harmful – Where Did We Go Wrong?” (Link to full presentation).
XPToronto Talk – Understanding and Dealing with Technical Debt by Amr Elssamadisy
Tonight Amr Elssamadisy from GembaSystems presented at the XPToronto/Agile User group. There was a big turnout of almost 40 people and I think one person didn’t actually have a seat.
I come to bury Agile, not to praise it
Here is the Visual Note (see earlier blog) of Alistair Cockburn’ Keynote talk at Agile 2009.
10 Temptations of an Agile Coach
This was a great talk by Stevie Borne at Agile 2009. It really was one of the best that I attended.
