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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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Non-Profit ScrumMasters

December 20, 2009

I wrapped up a week of Scrum training and consulting in non-profit organizations with the cherry on top – a Certified ScrumMaster workshop for non-profits modeled after the brilliant  WelfareCSM concept created by Tobias Mayer. Contrasted with the Scrum courses I teach in corporate settings, this class was a slow boat into the essence of [...]

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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 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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What is agile coaching?

July 28, 2009

Coaching is an artful conversation in which the coach helps the coachee see new perspectives and possibilities so they can take the next step in their personal and professional growth.  In the context of agile teams, coaching takes on the dual flavor of coaching and mentoring.  Yes, you are coaching to help someone reach for [...]

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How will we ever address all those big impediments?

June 30, 2009

It doesn’t take long to see that the biggest blockers for agile teams have nothing to do with the team.  They have everything to do with the surrounding organization.  Things like the company’s rules, processes, procedures (aka red tape and bureaucratic run arounds).  These are exactly the things that companies say they want agile teams [...]

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Stay connected to what you care about

April 29, 2009

Let’s say that an important retrospective is happening tomorrow, one that could change the team in big ways. You have prepared well. You are ready. Now all you have to do is wait for the morning to come. You could lay awake all night thinking of the many things they might say and what you [...]

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