Partnership & Possibilities

I read Garr Reynolds’ blog, “Presentation Zen,” on presentation design and skills.
Today, it features an excerpt from Bill Clinton’s recent speech at Georgetown University.
Reynolds highlights two paragraphs from Clinton’s speech.
“We believe in a politics…dominated by evidence and argument. There is a big difference between a philosophy and an ideology, on the […]

Pssst! Hey, look over there. You know, just over there to the right. See the events list? The next “Secrets of Agile Teamwork: Beyond Technical Skills” public workshop will happen Dec. 5-7. We have a few spaces left for folks who want to get good at this “individuals and interactions” and self-organizing teams stuff. Click […]

I mentioned a book in my last posting, Deep Survival by Lawrence Gonzales. I keep finding things in it that seem so relevant to teams and Agile. I wouldn’t say that writing software constitutes a life or death activity for the development team, but Gonzales’ two “Rules for Life” certainly apply: “Be here now” and […]

One of these years I’m going to attend the NASAGA conference. Until I get there, I read Willam Wake’s blog to catch a bit of the flavor.
Yesterday he wrote about Bernie DeKoven’s session:
“Bernie described Csikszentmihalyi’s flow model; with challenge and ability on two axes - too challenging, we’re anxious; too simple, it’s boring; […]

On the Gemba Panta Rei blog post, Jon Miller says,
” 20% celebration, 80% reflection
In order to do kaizen right you have to celebrate your victories over waste. You need to make it fun. Beware not to let this get out of hand, or start doing kaizen presentations and celebrations for the sake of […]