The Responsibility Process, Context, and Safety

The Responsibility Processโ„ข is a practice (some may argue it’s more or less than a practice) that helps us move towards more self-mastery. Being able to facilitate ourselves is all about emotional intelligence – our ability to recognize and react appropriately in the moment to our emotions.

Global Listening While Remote

Global Listening When Remote

Global Listening When Remote Many people are working from home at this point and this will obviously continue for a while. Many organizations had already been working remote. I’ve worked on a number of remote teams and with a number of remote organizations well before the current situation we are in. I’ve done remote work […]

Open Space Conferences – Attendee Created Conferences!

Open Space is one of my favorite types of conferences. I was under the impression that most people in the agile, coaching, and leadership communities knew what Open Space was. I was wrong. Many have never experienced it. That is sad, to an extent, but that also means there are many people who will experience […]

Agile Retrospectives Improve Team Relationships

I get a lot of questions about agile retrospectives from existing clients who are familiar with agile,ย those new to it, andย folks who don’t use agile (so, yes: everyone!). This is one in a seriesย of posts on retrospectives covering a variety of angles on the subject. [Agile Retrospective Resources has a list of the upcoming articles […]

ACI Agile Coach Competency Framework

Learning from ACI’s Agile Coach Competency Framework (Part 2)

There are many ways to look at the Agile Coach Competency Framework and many opportunities to learn. Inย Understanding ACI’s Agile Coach Competency Framework (Part 1), I outlined my summary of the framework, it’s competencies and the coaching stance. Part 2 looks at what you can learn from the framework and ideas about how to use […]

Agile Safari – Best Agile Project Management Software

No, I don’t hate agile project management software — it can serve a purpose. At issue is if there is an actual purpose and if it is misused. Often the softwareย stalls progress or worse, move us backwards. For any readers who are not familiar with agile or don’t work in software — the idea here […]