Coaching Self-Organizing Teams
Joseph Pelrine gave a really interesting session on “Coaching Self-Organizing Teams” at Agile 2009. (Mark Levison wrote about the pre-cursor to this session last year.)Read More
Agile Tour Toronto Presentation: A Gentle Introduction to Agile
Below are the slides from my first presentation at AgileTourToronto. It is based on ideas from Alistair Cockburn (among others) and has been a work-in-progress since I started sharing Agile ideas in 2002. Read More
Agile Tour Toronto 2009 Blasts off!
Agile Tour Toronto 2009 is over and it was an outstanding success! There were 150+ participants, 17 great speakers and lot’s of learning and sharing. It is really great to see all of our efforts as organizers come together in an amazing conference. Read More
Agile Tour Toronto Presentation #2 – Agile Executive Briefing
Below are the slides from my first presentation at AgileTourToronto. This is a new one I prepared to communicate Agile to C-Level Management. Read More
Agile Kick Start and Agile Games Day – Announcing Two Workshops October 19th and 21st
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
Coaching and Producing Value
David Hussman gave a great session on coaching called “Coaching and Producing Value” at Agile 2009. Read More
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 to think more in terms of growing understanding.Read More
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). Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
