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.Read More
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 have not read it yet so can’t say for sure. Yves Hanoulle says the book is good.Read More
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 personal responsibility and how to grow – hence the title of this blog post.Read More
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. Read More
Agile Coaching Roles – Notes from Agile 2009 OpenJam
After a couple of Agile 2009 sessions on coaching I realized I was even more confused than ever about how to think about my work as an Agile Coach. Arto Eskelinen and I decided to run an OpenJam to clarify this. Thanks to: Lyssa Adkins, Tobias Mayer, Dave Nicolette, Rachel Davies, Tim McCoy and David Fox. (Sorry if I missed anyone.)Read More
Play the Scrum Simulation (based on XPGame) for Great Learning
I decided to modify the XPGame to become a Scrum simulation. See instructions and insights in this article.
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Use Desk Flags to protect your Pomodoro
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” helps in tough situations
“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
