When my team gets together as a group of coaches it is always an interesting few days. I say this in complete honesty. I find the conversations stimulating. I find the group passion contagious. But I know that some don’t find it that way. Sensing the frustration I asked a colleague what in particular they disliked. I …
Over the weeks we have had considerable deep dives into Scrum and how it has evolved over the last ten years. The first week we looked it at a high level, then we had a look at the roles, ceremonies and artifacts. Now we have the opportunity to see how it has not evolved. It …
The Smithsonian is the world’s largest museum and research complex with hundreds of affiliated museums. The Stoosonian is much the same but switch up museum with people and thought leaders. It could be the collective noun for people focussed on building such a network focussed on leadership in the same guise that the Agile Alliance …
Ideagoras. A beautiful word, but even more beautiful when you get to the substance of it. In Greece, 600BC an agora was an open place of assembly where trade occurred. In today’s world trade is big business and the growing trend of this business is shifting to the Internet at break-neck speeds. The agora was the political heart of …
Indoctrination is the process of inculcating ideas, attitudes, cognitive strategies or a professional methodology (see doctrine). It is often distinguished from education by the fact that the indoctrinated person is expected not to question or critically examine the doctrine they have learned. Wikipedia Do we teach through repeated instructions? Yes, I see this often. Inculcating check. Do we present a vision of a practice or approach being positive or negative? Agile …
It was with some trepidation that I took at look at Seth Godin’s Tribes book. This was primarily due to mixed reports from friends whom had read it. It was so mixed that it was pretty evenly split down the middle 50% loved it, 50% hated it. Those that didn’t rate it felt that it …
Is e-mail ruining our agility? Should more effort be taken to restrict it or dare to even ban it within the workplace? Lets take a look at e-mail and how agile or lean it is vs not. ANTI – For team members who are located in the same building, using e-mails is not encouraging face …
Six years ago I was in a fitness craze trying to return to pre-baby body shape. I would go to the gym and do a number of classes, lift weights, cardio etc and probably did about 10 hours of gym work a week. A friend wanted to give Bootcamp a go and despite me already …
Star Trek’s The Borg have a few things going for themselves. The first is that they ignore concepts/cultures/planets that are already well understood. They only seek that of which is new or different. I liken this to Alistair Cockburn’s Oath of Non-Allegiance: I promise not to exclude from consideration any idea based on its source, but to consider …
I cannot take credit for a sassy title. In a fantastic realisation by a number of Social Neuroscience experts at the National University of Singapore (Annett Schirmer, Keng Soon Teh, Shuo Wang, Ranjith Vijayakumar, April Ching, Darshini Nithianantham, Nicolas Escoffier & Adrian David Cheok) have proof that physical touch influences our ability to empathize with and support the toucher. You can checkout the …
Agile Forest 