Posts made in juillet, 2010


Watching the garden grow…


Posted By on Juil 22, 2010 | 0 comments

I had the rare delight today of participating in an Agile lunch and learn at a client’s site.  There have been a series of successful lunch and learns there over the past several months, but this one was different in many ways. An Agile lunch and learn attended by a few dozen people, despite the fact that no lunch was provided. An Agile lunch and learn that (as an Agile coach) I had no part in organizing or running because it was...

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Playing to Learn


Posted By on Juil 20, 2010 | 0 comments

Learning can be fun.  Heck, let’s just get straight to the point and state unequivocally that learning should be fun, dammit!  Learning through play is also a powerfully effective way for people of all ages to acquire and accumulate new concepts and practices.  Current neuroscience suggests that using a variety of approaches to concretize ideas and create new neural networks through a variety of sensory engagements is the best way to...

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As agile coaches helping organizations transition to a different way of doing things, are we doing a disservice to our clients by accepting a mandate that we know deep down will most certainly fail? Are we failing to recognize the fact that any attempt for a particular client to adopt an agile approach to software development is simply too far out of their reach? A not so far-fetched example Let’s just imagine that we walk into...

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