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Top Women in Agile!

December 21, 2011

I was so very happy when my dear friend and agile coach colleague, Kris Blake, let me know that I was listed in agilescout’s “Top Women in Agile Thought Leadership.”  What’s most exciting about this is the company I keep.  The “big hitters” are on the list – Esther Derby, Johanna Rothman, Deborah Hartmann Preuss, [...]

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Agile Coach Stories: You keep amazing me

November 9, 2011

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”  ~ Bumper Sticker You are the ones doing it!  Tell those people who say it cannot be done to just stand back and watch.  Check out the latest agile coach stories about how coaches are using all the wonderful and sometimes [...]

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It’s hardly ever “them” — agile coaches, look to yourselves first

September 19, 2011

How do I motivate them? You know, they just sit there saying nothing.  When they do talk, it’s the same old ideas over and over.  How do I get them engaged? How do I get them to make good on their commitment? How do I deal with one that just doesn’t get agile and taints [...]

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More ACTION, Less TALK

April 26, 2011

When I co-teach the Coaching Agile Teams class, a waft of some of my one-hit wonders flit through my brain every so quickly before I catch myself and bring my attention back to what’s happening in the class and with the students. One of these wafts happened recently, when a student wrote down that something [...]

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Is trust earned or granted?

March 31, 2011

I’m recalling the first moments I trusted my daughter, then a toddler.  She certainly did nothing to earn my trust up to that point, yet I still granted her trust.  Albeit on a small basis…I trusted her to stay put while I ran to the next room to get something.  I trusted her to not [...]

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Why the retrospective is not a lessons learned meeting

January 31, 2011

Often, when I introduce agile newcomers to the retrospective, they say, “Oh…this is the lessons learned meeting.  Right?”  Well, no.  It’s not.  Tongue-in-cheek, I often say, “It’s like lessons learned, but with a purpose.”  This gets eyebrows raised and people’s ears turned on.  Then they are ready to hear why this “meeting” is so different. [...]

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Using silent work techniques to get to astonishing results

November 29, 2010

Consider this… The word dialogue comes from the Greek dia, which means through, and logos, which means word or meaning. So dialogue is about letting meaning flow through our words. In a true dialogue, we hear each other’s words to gain new understanding and find shared meaning. What most of us do is discuss, which [...]

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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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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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