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The "Dialogue Room" at last week's ScrumGathering in Munich was intended by conference organiser Tobias Mayer to create more ...

Ah, it happened again today. One of those mildly annoying mailing list posts, you know: "Please help me with my thesis! Just follow thi...

Agile Coaches! Forget this Skype business - let's all meet for a REAL drink in Toronto, on Monday August 4th, the night before the Agile...

Well, I think I've found my passion! I've ventured into the world of professional coach training, starting with Co-Active Coaching ,...

Professional development has many facets: reading books, keeping up to date with news and journals, and working with colleagues to learn fro...

I recently facilitated an OpenSpace event in Montreal, and some simple changes from previous similar events made it a much more satisfying e...

Robin Dymond and I enjoyed making our presentations at Agile2006. As promised, here is a link to the files related to our topic: Appropriate...

A fellow agilist asked a question about Scrum and process - wondering why an Agile methodology would be rather rigid about basic practices. ...

(On June 14th, a colleague posted some objections about getting Agile to work in certain environments. This is my answer to some of his poi...

I'm sitting patiently in the waiting room in the Women's Hospital maternity ward. It's been a long labour, and everyone is tired...

We went live, over at InfoQ.com yesterday! It provides news and content to the Agile, Java, .NET, Ruby and SOA communitites - particularly ...

I recently ran a retrospective with one of my teams, for a 14-week Agile pilot project. We had a few extra minutes before lunch, so I tried ...

Well, Floyd Marinescu's labour of love is finally ready - InfoQ.com is in pre-launch beta testing and we'd love for you to have a l...

The sold-out Mesh Conference began today in Toronto: the hordes have descended for what's predicted to be Canada's seminal Web 2.0 ...

A great weekend - that once again proves that great teams are where you make them :-) Here is my Flikr slide show of some of my favourite p...

I've been busy in Toronto, doing a little coaching and looking for the enterprises that want help tuning up their development processes....

For the life of me, I can't recall how I heard about OpenSpace... as far as I recall, my first OpenSpace was the one I sponsored in To...

Leila pinged Mark , who pinged me... In My Lifetime , three things I would like to see... all individuals treated with equal respect, regar...

A new study in the April issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (published by the American Psychological Association) ind...

Jen, who I wrote about in my last item, also drew to my attention BlogHer | Where the women bloggers are , asking: did I want to be involved...

I call it "networking". Linda Rising calls it "Tell Everyone". In her Patterns for Building a Beautiful Company , Linda...

The buzz is building... TorCamp's DemoCamp5 was held last night at U of T's Bahen Centre for Information Technology to a full hous...

Coach Kevin Rutherford and I have been musing on this subject: what meaningful measures can we propose to clients to evaluate the results of...

One of the methodologies in which I am trained, and which I teach to others is Scrum Project Management. The team lead in this approach is ...

"I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to...

I think I first heard of intentional concurrent blogging on Hal Macomber's excellent blog . Obviously it stuck in my mind... it's re...

Ok, you'll probably need to follow the links to keep up here :-) TorCamp is Toronto's own Barcamp . TorCamp 1.0 took place last No...

Life is too short to pull our punches. This article by Ron Jeffries really resonates with me.

You've no idea how often my apprentices saying: "but wouldn't it be more efficient to..." Agile work focuses on effectiven...

In Blink , staff writer from The New Yorker Malcolm Gladwell reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most inform...