Tag: Agile
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Agile Burn Out in ‘The Achievement Society’
In his book ‘Burn Out Society’, Byung-Chul Han, suggests that today’s psychological maladies (from a psychoanalytic perspective) do not stem from the negativity of repression (i.e. repressing what you shouldn’t do) as was the case in Freud’s times. Instead, today’s maladies such as depression, burn out and ADHD etc., stem from an excess of positivity – an excess of können / an excess…
-
Agile and Sushi
There’s a nice documentary about a sushi chef called Jiro who owns a Sushi joint in a metro station subway. It just so happens to have three Michelin stars which, by definition, means you would travel around the world just to go to the restaurant – it’s that good. At one point in the documentary…
-
Scrum master recruitment, lift offs and post-it machines
This is a post about our experience of hiring and interviewing a new scrum master and the lessons learned. It’s also about how we attempted to integrate elements of agile into our recruitment and how I was influenced by a wonderful book that I was reading at the time: ‘Lift off’ by Diana Larsen and…
-
Soup Retrospective
This was a new type of retrospective for me and I tried it out with our team in India. It’s something I learned from Aino Vonge Curry at a recent agile conference in Cambridge. It’s a great retrospective that can be used in any situation and I’m sure you’ll make some breakthroughs as a result.…