I think I might be ready to to put that facilitation course together after all. You may recall a post from the end of last year where I helped design one of the best courses on facilitation I have ever[…]
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Category: Agile (General)
Reflections on my First Certified Agile Leader (CAL) Class
This week I had the distinct honor of attending a Certified Agile Leader (CAL) class taught by Bob Galen in house with a client. I wanted to write a quick post with some reflections on the course. Here is my position[…]
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Lean Coffee Retro
What is Lean Coffee? I have facilitated countless retrospectives, and one of my dependable favorites is lean coffee. This technique works especially well for remote teams, as it provides a great visual tool to see the agenda and the current[…]
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A Culture of Great Meetings
I was able to attend a workshop this past week hosted by Laura Burke called A Culture of Great Meetings. The two day course offered ideas on how to prepare for, design, participate in, and facilitate effective meetings. Here are personal reflection from[…]
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LEGO Serious Play: My Introduction
Attending a workshop for LEGO Serious Play has been on my to do list for some time. I was fortunate to be able to attend a session today at Agile Dev East Better Software Conference in Orlando, Florida that gave an[…]
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You Might be an Agile Leader if . . .
I just attended the Agile Dev, Better Software, & DevOps East Conference in Orlando, FL. My esteemed colleague, Bob Galen, gave the opening Keynote at the main conference. His talk was called You might be an agile leader if . . .[…]
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An Agile Product Development Policy
During my first agile transformation, we had a highly adaptive organizational framework for proposing changes. Within Holacracy, the a non-hierarchical organizational structure, there is a governance process which allows any team member to propose a change to structure, roles, or[…]
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Open Space Agility
I recently had the wonderful opportunity to attend an Open Space Agility Workshop taught by Daniel Mezick. I wanted to provide a synopsis of the ideas from the course, and point out what really resonated with me. Open Space Agility (OSA)[…]
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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby & Diana Larsen
I want to share a synopsis of an incredibly powerful book providing a framework and guide for good agile retrospectives. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (2006) by Esther Derby & Diana Larsen. The book provides a five step process for[…]
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Meta-Cast (@metahypencast)
After about six months of focused, dedicated listening to the Meta-Cast, an agile podcast hosted by Bob Galen & Josh Anderson I am proud to say that I finally finished all 117 episodes! I started from the beginning early this year,[…]
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