At DeepAgile in Boston, I played Yellow Brick Road: Fresh InsightsThrough Peer Coaching. The game was led by it’s inventor – Portia Tung who did a great job even with a very large group. If you haven’t played this, I suggest you make the time. Read More
This is a review of Luke Hohmann’s excellent blog series on Product Backlog Prioritization. As usual, I have captured what I believe to be the salient points in a visual note. The main points are to:Read More
The workshop was nothing short of amazing. Lee Devin took a group of us through a 5 hour deep-dive into the key skills used by actors to create and collaborate. What Lee calls Artful Making (see book for more). This is 100% applicable for Agile teams and this has immediately become part of my toolkit for fostering creativity and much more. Read More
As one of the organizers of Agile Tour Toronto I was thrilled with our success in attracting attendees – we sold out a month before the conference. We decided that we would rather have a smaller conference with a good experience rather than a larger one that is more than we can manage in our first year running it. Read More
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. Read More
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.Read More
A bunch of the folks I am working with now have started to use the Pomodoro Technique. This is really cool and a great way to boost productivity.
“Crucial Conversations” was my book of the year a few years ago for a good reason. It helped me with some very difficult conversations at work and at home.Read More
