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The Coaching Agile Teams Class: So What? Now What?

October 31, 2010

So what? Now what? These are oft-heard questions as the Coaching Agile Teams class moves through two days of experiential learning, deep introspection and personal transformation. “Transformation into what?” you might ask.  ”Into a better, more aware, more tool-full and more presence-full agile coach,” I answer.  ”In short, a jump start on the transformation your [...]

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Got Agile Joy?

October 17, 2010

I think it is one of the solemn (and not often talked about) duties of the agile coach to notice, amplify and spread joy.  Yep, you heard it right.  Joy.   The good news?  Working agile gives us so many reasons to be joyful.  When I asked some random agilists walking the halls at the [...]

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Agile and Design Thinking:
How to Stop Work from Killing You

August 6, 2010

I am part of the Coaches’ Training Institute Co-Active Leadership program this year.  If you want to really delve into yourself to amp up the leadership qualities that help people know what you’re about so they can follow you, with the flip-side of pruning (most painfully) the parts of yourself that don’t help people follow [...]

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Addressing upper management challenges with Scrum

April 21, 2010

Common challenges often laid at the doorstep of upper management as an organization starts to see the benefits of Scrum are a noisy host of problems that usher in the need for a trio of mind-set changes: resource utilization vs. throughput, competition vs. collaboration and command-and-control vs. servant leadership. In my experience, most of the [...]

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Positive Psychology and Team Performance

March 20, 2010

Do the teams you coach seem to be stuck in a rut?  Do you wish they would stand up for themselves when company management hands down a decision that harms them?  Do they blindly accept situations that cause impediments to their work, assuming they can’t affect them anyway?  If your attempts to help have been [...]

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Navigating Conflict on Agile Teams: Why Resolving it Won't Work

January 24, 2010

My keynote address which I now call “Navigating Conflict/The AWE Factor” keynote is available on the StickyMinds website. Grab a snack, take a look and let me know what you think.  And, send it around if you think it can help people.

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Co-active coaching comes to the agile world

November 25, 2009

What a joy to see the Co-Active Coaching book alongside a bevy of agile books at the 2009 Agile Development Practices conference bookstore.  It sat there, nestled right next to the latest agile wisdom from Mike’s Cohn’s new book, Succeeding with Agile.  And…the Co-Active Coaching book sold out.  I didn’t wear a sign saying “Co-Active [...]

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Build your team's collaboration muscle

September 30, 2009

At Agile 2009, I delivered the results of a beautiful collaboration between myself and Lee Devin, co-author of the much loved Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work.  After our session had been accepted, Lee discovered that he could not attend the conference.  Instead of saying, “See ya” or “Good luck [...]

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Agile Team Start-up: one of the first agile adoption activities

August 30, 2009

The session I offered on Agile Team Start-up at Agile 2009 went over so well that people stayed after the session to learn one more start-up technique.  That’s dedication! In the session, we explored activities that help an agile coach start-up a new team (or kick-start an existing team) through three broad areas: Learning about [...]

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Powerful Questions and Powerful Requests

August 30, 2009

Tobias Mayer and I gave a session at Agile 2009 in the last time slot of the last day entitled Human-Centric Coaching.  It had been a long, exciting, skills-filled, exhausting conference.  We noticed that people were walking around either filled up or fed up.  Overloaded.  So, we slowed it down. We gave the session a [...]

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Agile 2009 is coming

August 21, 2009

My second spin at the Agile 20xx conferences comes up next week and boy, am I excited to be there.  Last year I was a newbie in the community.  Just meeting people, matching names to some of the Agile “rockstar” faces, soaking up much of what everyone said and, in general, loving that the Agile [...]

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