SMART goals may not be that smart
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.
Games and tough questions for Agile Adoption
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.
Daniel Pink on Intrinsic & Extrinsic Motivation
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 […]
Agile Enablement Battlefield
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 […]
Top 10 tips for coaches
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 […]
Taking Responsibility to Learn and Grow
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 […]
User Interface Engineering – Agile 2009 Banquet
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 […]
ScrumMaster can be a tough job
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).
XPToronto Talk – Understanding and Dealing with Technical Debt by Amr Elssamadisy
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.
10 Temptations of an Agile Coach
This was a great talk by Stevie Borne at Agile 2009. It really was one of the best that I attended.
I come to bury Agile, not to praise it
Here is the Visual Note (see earlier blog) of Alistair Cockburn’ Keynote talk at Agile 2009.
Agile and PMI building a bridge of understanding
The biggest news from Agile 2009 this year is that the PMI has launched the PMI Agile Community of Practice.
