June is only two months away and with it comes the next edition of our Secrets of Agile Teamwork: Beyond Technical Skills workshop. For more information, see the link in the Events section just to the right of this post.
Esther Derby and I continue to inspect and adapt this workshop with each public and private group. It gets better every time, so you have the chance to attend the best one so far!
June Kim posted a message on the extremeprogramming list which included a graph about work hours and productivity. She created the graph from data she found in two wikipedia articles about work.
Esther Derby shares wisdom about factors to consider when deciding whether to bring a distributed team together for kick-offs, planning and retrospectives. Face-to-face is best, yet leaders find it difficult to quantify the benefits as well as the costs.
Yesterday (March 13) I presented a tutorial at QCon, "Agile Leadership: From Managment that Controls to Management that Facilitates." We had quite a good time in the session which I seeded with a number of appreciative inquiry-style questions for added flavor. The universe rewarded me with an alert to an article by Brian Button in the latest AgileChronicles, The hardest part of being an Agile Project Manager. In it, he beautifully describes an instance of management that facilitates. Thank you, Brian. :-)
It’s Wednesday—the day my automated “to-do” list tells me to write a blog post, if I haven’t already posted one this week. I’m in the middle of a trip to London to speak at Qcon. Traveling to exotic (!) places distracts me from things like writing blog posts. Since the reminder came up, and I noticed I haven’t written one this week, I began to look around.
Luckily, CIO magazine has come to my rescue. Michael Hugos offers his thoughts on A Formula to Measure Business Agility in a link from this week’s CIO Insider email. In...