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A Coaching Kanban board
Chris McMahon mentioned my example of a coaching kanban board in the second of his series of posts against Kanban. That it comes across as simple and infantile in Chris’s example is my fault; I only...
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The Haiku Workshop at SPA2010
I’ll be running the ever-popular Haiku Workshop in the SPA2010 evening diversions on Monday 17th May. My focus for this is limited to 24 people. I’m not sure how attendance is being organised; however,...
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The Gordon Pask Award
The Pask Committee have given the Gordon Pask award to me this year for deepening existing ideas and coming up with some pretty crazy ones of my own. I can only do this because of the fortune I have in...
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Agile Training – a Recipe for Failure
Some while back, I was invited to a meeting with two people who worked within that area called “Human Resources”. To be fair to the individuals concerned, neither of them ever referred to people as...
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Be nice to your PMs
After my talk at QCon London, some of the feedback I got was that I was really, really mean to PMs. In fairness, I was also mean to Tech Leads, architects and other managers, both in and out of...
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Gaming Culture with the Dreyfus Model
A few people here at the Lean Software & Systems Conference have asked me to write more about using the Dreyfus Model to game culture. I’ve already written quite a bit about the Dreyfus Model – how...
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Done with Chickens and Pigs
If you’re not familiar with the concept of Chickens and Pigs, it’s based on an old joke in which a chicken and a pig set up a restaurant. The chicken wants to call it “Ham’n'Eggs”. The pig says, “No...
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Scrum and Kanban: both the same, only different
When I started coaching Agile methodologies, I didn’t know how much I didn’t know. I had come from Thoughtworks, a company whose tools and processes are mostly driven by Extreme Programming, aka XP. In...
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Upcoming engagements
There are a few exciting speaking and training engagements coming up, many of them UK based! First off, two tutorials: I’m running my first Deliberate Discovery, Cynefin and Real Options tutorial at...
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The Dream Team Nightmare: a Review
I remember Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone very well. They were the duo who published the “Choose your own adventure” books in my childhood; games which took you from one scene to another, battling...
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