Artful Making Workshop with Lee Devin
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
Inventors Dilemma and the Dead Core
Ken Schwaber has a great presentation where he talks about the Innovator’s Dillemma and how companies build a (design) dead core.
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Munich 2009 Scrum Gathering Roundup
I was really excited to see the presentations from the Munich Scrum Gathering posted on the ScrumAlliance site since I was not able to attend due to a date conflict with Agile Tour Toronto. It took some time to go through all of them so I thought I would post some of the ones I found interesting here to encourage you to check them out and maybe some others. A big thank-you to the Scrum Alliance and authors for posting them. Read More
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
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
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
