As one of the organizers of Agile Tour Toronto I was thrilled with our success in attracting attendees – we sold out a month before the conference. We decided that we would rather have a smaller conference with a good experience rather than a larger one that is more than we can manage in our first year running it. Read More
David Hussman gave a great session on coaching called “Coaching and Producing Value” at Agile 2009. Read More
I just blogged about Daniel Pink’s case around intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. This is a good lead-in for why SMART goals may be damaging to your organization.Read More
Luiz Claudio Parzianello and Rafael Prikladnicki gave a talk at Agile 2009 titled “Logical Levels and Statistical Games: A Powerful Strategy for Agile Adoption”. Slides are available here. Read More
Newsflash!
Incentives and rewards are harmful to tasks that involve creativity. They bigger the reward, the more harmful. This is a must-watch video. Many thanks to Yves for posting this is on his blog.Read More
George Schlitz and Giora Morein gave a great presentation/workshop on Agile Enablement Battlefield.
First off, let me say that I am not a big fan of military metaphors. I like to think more in terms of growing understanding.Read More
This is another talk from Agile 2009 – by Liz Sedly and Rachel Davies. I think it is an excerpt from their new book – Agile Coaching – but I have not read it yet so can’t say for sure. Yves Hanoulle says the book is good.Read More
Jared Spool gave a pretty good banquet keynote for Agile 2009 on User Interface Engineering. The main point is that is that very successful companies use amazing interfaces as a key competitive advantage. And the key to this is good user experience design. Read More
Christopher Avery gave a very interesting talk at Agile 2009 called How to Develop Your Leadership Power Daily: An Agile Approach to Growth. It was a very interesting talk about personal responsibility and how to grow – hence the title of this blog post.Read More
I’m writing about a talk given by Paul Hodgetts at Agile 2009 called “ScrumMasters Considered Harmful – Where Did We Go Wrong?” (Link to full presentation). Read More
Tonight Amr Elssamadisy from GembaSystems presented at the XPToronto/Agile User group. There was a big turnout of almost 40 people and I think one person didn’t actually have a seat.Read More
Here is the Visual Note (see earlier blog) of Alistair Cockburn’ Keynote talk at Agile 2009. Read More
