Category: Insights
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Personal Antifragility – a New Community
How can I start applying antifragility to my own personal life? This was a question that I set myself earlier in the year. I also realised that, upon reflection, I had always been attracted to the concept of antifragility before even knowing what the concept was, and conversely, I had always been cautious of decisions…
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Antifragility for Agilists
Yesterday we hosted a talk at the Global Scrum Master Summit about antifragility for Scrum Masters (or any agilists, really!), and what Scrum Masters can learn and gain from antifragilty. We first guided participants through the concept of antifragility, starting with a story about chaikhanas (Afghan tea houses and how they’re antifragile), then we looked at an example from…
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What’s still missing from Agile Coaching? A comparison with Teacher Training
After completing the agile coaching course, I have been trying to think of a way to continue to develop my skills and competencies. I thought back to my teacher training and I wondered whether I can apply the models that we used in teacher training. After all, there are a lot of similarities between the…
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Personal antifragility – A Vision and a Quest
This article summarizes what anti-fragility is, and outlines my own hypothesis on how one can achieve an anti-fragile constitution: personal anti-fragility. I first came across the concept ‘anti-fragility’ in the book of the same name by the writer, risk analyst and philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It immediately struck a chord with me and I’ll explain…
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2020 books
The top influential books I read in 2020 summarized in three sentences. I usually have a curiosity which leads me to the book, or someone recommends it to me. All non-fiction / work related. In no particular order apart from the first: “Anti-fragile” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Probably my favourite book of 2020. Become anti-fragile!…
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Personal OKRs and Personal Agility
How on Earth do people get things done? I really don’t know how some people achieve anything in their private lives – myself included. I got so fed up with myself for constantly forgetting things that I needed some way of ‘sorting myself out’, especially at a point in my life when time itself was…
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Personal agility: Objectives, Small Bets, Big Rocks
We all have blind spots. It turns out that during my journey in the world of Objectives, I stumbled into a parallel world of personal agility. I suppose it had to. Both literally and metaphorically. But I need to add a bit of context first. What does it mean to be agile? (A good friend asked…
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Lean UX Jira Workflow
It took quite a lot of discussing and experimenting in order to get a UX workflow in to Jira that worked for us. We wanted UX tickets to have their own workflow. How work gets done in UX, needed to represented the nature of UX – i.e. that it is a creative and fluid affair…
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A Start Up, a Small Bet and some Agile Hardware
This is a story about having some fun with scrum (agile hardware) and doing a start up with a friend. But it’s also more than that. It’s another journey. It was setting out with a clear mission, ‘giving it a go’ and seeing what’s out there. It was an experiment. This was about applying scrum,…
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Reflections on the PGCE Teacher Training
A few years ago I did the PGCE. By the end of it, I was burnt out (I very nearly failed the course) and due to policy changes was unable to find a suitable role after completion. I was only offered a maternity cover on the starting graduate salary (despite having 10 years experience in…