Please note: This is not a call to stop using Open Space Technology. This is a call to stop overusing a great tool and a call to start looking for alternatives. Who remembers the run-off-the-mill agile conference from five to ten years ago? The format used to be pretty straight forward: several sessions, all […]
We prepared this post as part of our workshop for the Scrum Day Europe 2016. During the workshop, we will enlist your help in gaining a further understanding of Zombie Scrum and what we can do about it (as a community). So if you are attending the SDE, we invite you to join our interactive […]
It’s a warm evening in Naples, Florida. I’m walking alongside Henri Lipmanowicz and I’m struggling to come up with questions to ask him. Henri jokingly calls this part of the city “Old Naples”, an allusion to the fact that it was built only a couple of decades ago. We’re weaving our way through a crowd […]
Something happened to me at the start of the year that I would like to share with everybody. Up until that point, I had always felt like I should be much better in a particular aspect of my coaching practice. Wait, that’s not entirely accurate. I had felt like we as coaches should all be […]
In “The Feeling Good Handbook” David D. Burns lists ten forms of cognitive distortions which can lead to increasing pathology. If you are a coach, you might be familiar with them on the level of the individual. But as we often focus more on the team level, it’s interesting to look at them from that […]
Note: A version of this post was first published on the Scrum Alliance website. While directly or indirectly helping companies adopt or refine their agile approaches, I have noticed a tendency in many Agile Coaches which has the potential to turn into a subtle but destructive anti-pattern. Sadly, Agile Coaches still lack an official ethical […]