One of these years I'm going to attend the NASAGA conference. Until I get there, I read Willam Wake's blog to catch a bit of the flavor.
Yesterday he wrote about Bernie DeKoven's session:
"Bernie described Csikszentmihalyi's flow model; with challenge and ability on two axes - too challenging, we're anxious; too simple, it's boring; right on the edge - we may get flow. Flow is characterized by a sense of timelessness, focus, stillness, vividness, oneness.
Bernie has another model to go with it: "we" is on one axis, "me" on another. With way too much "we" or too much...
On the Gemba Panta Rei blog post, Jon Miller says, “20% celebration, 80% reflection. In order to do kaizen right you have to celebrate your victories over waste. You need to make it fun.”
In a Sept 26 blog post, Bob Sutton, co-author of Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense, refers to five points he’s learned about teaching people to innovate. Point number 1?
“1. Producing smart individuals is the first step; teaching them to collaborate is the second step.”
Just a small reminder to all the smart folks :-) about our “Secrets of Agile Teamwork: Beyond Technical Skills” public workshop coming up in December. (Check out the sidebar under Events.) It’s where Esther Derby and I share our focus on collaboration and the skills Agile teams need to inspect, adapt,...
As I surf the web-o-sphere, I continually look for clues and keys to effective collaboration for teams. This morning I found Power of Two on Wray Herbert's blog We're only human .
In this post, Herbert muses on Seinfeld's Close Talker and other social skills and points us to a new book by Daniel Goldman.
At a recent users group meeting, I heard about a retrospective activity someone created. It wasn't an activity I would use as described (which is why I'm not more specific about who and where), but I thought it had possibilities. It's based on the idea of asking team members to write thoughts on index cards anonymously.
I've seen a number of variations on this theme. One I've led many times at the start of a retrospective I call "Sense of the Room" (included below).
This new activity lends itself to the Gathering Data focus of a retrospective. For want of a better...