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October 28, 2009
Draw Me a Picture!
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The "Dialogue Room" at last week's ScrumGathering in Munich was intended by conference organiser Tobias Mayer to create more ...
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October 07, 2009
I am doing my thesis, please answer my survey!
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Ah, it happened again today. One of those mildly annoying mailing list posts, you know: "Please help me with my thesis! Just follow thi...
July 28, 2008
The REAL Agile Coaches Pub
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Agile Coaches! Forget this Skype business - let's all meet for a REAL drink in Toronto, on Monday August 4th, the night before the Agile...
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May 11, 2008
What Would Happen if you Asked a "Powerful Question"?
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Well, I think I've found my passion! I've ventured into the world of professional coach training, starting with Co-Active Coaching ,...
January 06, 2007
Qcon: for better software team performance
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Professional development has many facets: reading books, keeping up to date with news and journals, and working with colleagues to learn fro...
December 04, 2006
OpenSpace benefits both beginners and experts
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I recently facilitated an OpenSpace event in Montreal, and some simple changes from previous similar events made it a much more satisfying e...
August 09, 2006
Measuring What Matters
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Robin Dymond and I enjoyed making our presentations at Agile2006. As promised, here is a link to the files related to our topic: Appropriate...
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August 02, 2006
Process is Inevitable - Embrace It, Then Change It :-)
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A fellow agilist asked a question about Scrum and process - wondering why an Agile methodology would be rather rigid about basic practices. ...
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July 02, 2006
Fitting Agile into your Ecosystem
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(On June 14th, a colleague posted some objections about getting Agile to work in certain environments. This is my answer to some of his poi...
June 19, 2006
Teamwork in Real Life
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I'm sitting patiently in the waiting room in the Women's Hospital maternity ward. It's been a long labour, and everyone is tired...
June 09, 2006
InfoQ.com Online Community Launched!
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We went live, over at InfoQ.com yesterday! It provides news and content to the Agile, Java, .NET, Ruby and SOA communitites - particularly ...
May 31, 2006
(Just enough) Order out of Chaos
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I recently ran a retrospective with one of my teams, for a 14-week Agile pilot project. We had a few extra minutes before lunch, so I tried ...
May 20, 2006
InfoQ site "unLaunched" and available for early bird review!
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Well, Floyd Marinescu's labour of love is finally ready - InfoQ.com is in pre-launch beta testing and we'd love for you to have a l...
May 15, 2006
Agile Spirits Discovered at Web 2.0 un-Conference
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The sold-out Mesh Conference began today in Toronto: the hordes have descended for what's predicted to be Canada's seminal Web 2.0 ...
TorCamp 2.0
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A great weekend - that once again proves that great teams are where you make them :-) Here is my Flikr slide show of some of my favourite p...
May 09, 2006
What's Deb up to?
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I've been busy in Toronto, doing a little coaching and looking for the enterprises that want help tuning up their development processes....
April 27, 2006
OpenSpace for Collaborative Conferences
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For the life of me, I can't recall how I heard about OpenSpace... as far as I recall, my first OpenSpace was the one I sponsored in To...
In my Lifetime
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Leila pinged Mark , who pinged me... In My Lifetime , three things I would like to see... all individuals treated with equal respect, regar...
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Groups Perform Better Than The Best Individuals...
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A new study in the April issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (published by the American Psychological Association) ind...
BlogHer
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Jen, who I wrote about in my last item, also drew to my attention BlogHer | Where the women bloggers are , asking: did I want to be involved...
April 26, 2006
It's a Small World
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I call it "networking". Linda Rising calls it "Tell Everyone". In her Patterns for Building a Beautiful Company , Linda...
DemoCamp and Community
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The buzz is building... TorCamp's DemoCamp5 was held last night at U of T's Bahen Centre for Information Technology to a full hous...
April 16, 2006
What is a Coach worth?
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Coach Kevin Rutherford and I have been musing on this subject: what meaningful measures can we propose to clients to evaluate the results of...
April 13, 2006
Wanted: Cat Herder
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One of the methodologies in which I am trained, and which I teach to others is Scrum Project Management. The team lead in this approach is ...
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April 08, 2006
Catching the right stuff
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"I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to...
April 02, 2006
GridBlogging
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I think I first heard of intentional concurrent blogging on Hal Macomber's excellent blog . Obviously it stuck in my mind... it's re...
TorCamp
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Ok, you'll probably need to follow the links to keep up here :-) TorCamp is Toronto's own Barcamp . TorCamp 1.0 took place last No...
March 31, 2006
On Passionate Discourse
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Life is too short to pull our punches. This article by Ron Jeffries really resonates with me.
What
are you doing?
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You've no idea how often my apprentices saying: "but wouldn't it be more efficient to..." Agile work focuses on effectiven...
March 29, 2006
Blink and BNET
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In Blink , staff writer from The New Yorker Malcolm Gladwell reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most inform...
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