Powerful Questions and Powerful Requests
Finally, the last in my series of visual notes from Agile 2009. Not my best, but I wanted to share my thoughts about the session. Read More
Coaching Self-Organizing Teams
Joseph Pelrine gave a really interesting session on “Coaching Self-Organizing Teams” at Agile 2009. (Mark Levison wrote about the pre-cursor to this session last year.)Read More
Visual Notes and MindMapping Supplies
Someone was asking what tools I use to create the visual notes and mind maps. Perhaps the most important is to trust myself that whatever I am drawing is OK and will communicate ideas better than plain text.Read More
Agile Tour Toronto Presentation #2 – Agile Executive Briefing
Below are the slides from my first presentation at AgileTourToronto. This is a new one I prepared to communicate Agile to C-Level Management. Read More
Deliberate Practice – a key to Craftsmanship
At Agile 2009, Mary Poppendieck presented on “Deliberate Practice” – how people become experts. The video and slides are available from InfoQ. Read More
Agile Kick Start and Agile Games Day – Announcing Two Workshops October 19th and 21st
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
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
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. Read More
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 is on his blog.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
Agile 2009 Mind Maps and Visual Note Taking
I have some really cool mind maps and visual notes from Agile 2009.Read More
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.
