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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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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I Am a Certified Scrum Coach and I Am Not Nice

September 25, 2010

Congratulate me.  I recently learned that I have been accepted as a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC).  I have been wanting to be among the ranks of the other CSCs for a while and it took me a long time to do a complete job with the CSC application (and the time delay had a bit [...]

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Estimation and Release Planning with Fruit Salad

August 28, 2010

Some late breaking events caused several students in a recent Certified Scrum Product Owner class to reschedule, leaving only five students in the class. I (Lyssa) had arranged for a candidate Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Brian Rabon, to co-teach with me in this class. He and I had some fancy footwork to do as many [...]

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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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Millennials and Scrum, made for each another

May 23, 2010

This year, I encountered my first classroom-full of people who had never worked waterfall.  Now, I don’t talk a lot about waterfall versus Scrum when I teach the Certified ScrumMaster course, just enough to set the stage for why Scrum arose when it did.  I show some data about the appalling failure rates of projects [...]

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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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Scrum Gathering in Orlando

February 21, 2010

Tobias Mayer and the folks at the Scrum Alliance have organized what looks to be the best Scrum Gathering ever.  Truly, I’m not saying this because I get to be part of it with the Coaching the Coaches deep-dive session and a couple others (including project manager deprogramming).  Rather, I say this because the people [...]

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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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