Top 10 reasons to say NO to BootCamp

The next European BootCamp has just been announced.
Paircoaching.net holds another Reboot to Team 2.0 at Koningsteen from 15 till 20 june 2008.
To avoid that we have to much people joining, I ‘m posting our top ten reason why people should NOT follow a BootCamp.
1. My projects effortlessly complete on schedule and in budget every [...]

Reboot to Team 2.0 starts today

I don’t pretend that people will learn soft-skills at one week Bootcamp. As I told a few managers this week: you will change. I just can not predict how you will change. I do know that people that come out of bootcamp are much more focused on achieving results.
I will check in the way [...]

Reboot to Team2.0 @ Koningsteen

Today I’m preparing the Reboot to Team 2.0 (Bootcamp) of next week.
So  next week, while all of you are working hard in boring offices, I will be working even harder in a peaceful place called Koningsteen.
I think it is the best place to have such a training. A beautiful garden, nice big rooms, great food [...]

5 conditions for effective punishments

The punishment has to be relative intense.The subject should feel it as a punishment)
It has to be giving promptly. This is one of the problems with the current law system. There is too much time between the crime  and the punishment.The person has to feel that it is related. Even when he/she knows it is [...]

Positive and negative ratification/punishment

 

 
Consequence = adding a stimulus
Consequence = remove a stimulus

Behaviorincreases
positive ratification
Behavior is followed by adding a pleasant stimulus
negative ratification
Behavior is followed by removing an unpleasant stimulus

Behaviordecreases
Positive punishment
Behavior is followed by adding an unpleasant stimulus (Disapproving looks, shouting… Negative punishment
Behavior is followed by removing a pleasant stimulus (Ex Time-out)

 
Punishment in this blog post is not the same as [...]

Shaping by means of successive approach

In most cases behavior what we want to learn to people (or pets) , is seldom behavior that spontaneously would appear. In that case it would be impossible to ratify when it occurs.
So what is a parent, team leader to do?
Well you can build the training in little steps.
Let’s look at how circus tamers do [...]

Giving positive feedback works best if you give it irregular…

I believe in giving positive feedback. While doing research for a big post that explains how to use these positive educational techniques with your (agile) team, I encountered this scientific fact:
Giving constant positive feedback works less good as positive feedback given at variable ratio or with a variable interval.
In fact people that are giving constant [...]

Speed of Trust:officially announced

Today I received a mail from my friends at FranklinCovey Belgium.  Looks like I pre-announced their session about trust
We are  proud to announce:
The MasterClass on “The Speed of Trust” by Stephen M.R. Covey on Wednesday evening June 18th, 2008 in De Zuiderkoon in Antwerp.
As of today, we are starting the registration of participants.  And as [...]

Building a house still a good metaphor for explaining building software the agile way

Last week I used the old building a house metaphor again during interview when I was asked to explain agile in 3 minutes to people who never heard of agile.
3 minutes is of course not enough so I will take some more time here.

Have you ever (re) build a house? Did you know up front [...]

War for talent: CheaperTalentHypothesis

I completely agree with Martin Fowler on this one. Better programmers out perform worse once. (And that is why they are cheaper in the end.)
It’s a very nice example of More is less.
Maybe one slightly change to his article: in an truely agile team, when the better programmers pair with the lesser ones, they will [...]

Reboot to team 2.0 is the perfect follow up after a CSM (Certified Scrum master class)

Sven followed a great CSM with Joseph Pelrine. (I have followed already multiple courses with Joseph. including my own CSM. I agree he is great.)
Svens next step is learning about self-organizing teams.
I have a few tips for Sven and every other CSM.
1) Check out my post about self organizing teams.
2) As I told you [...]

5 tibetans, 5 tibetaantjes

One of the reasons that I am following my gestalt training is to become a better listener.
Communication is reading, writing, talking and listening. 40% of all communication is listening.
We all had years training to learn how to write, to learn how to read. There exists a number of training on how to speak.
The only training [...]

Download tool for the whole .NET framework source code

John Robbins & Ilya Ryzhenkov created  a tool to download the source from the .NET library
via Chris Sells
I  am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net
Technorati Tags: .Net Source code,Microsoft,Download tool,Chris Sells,John Robbins,Ilya Ryzhenkov

Test: Are you a real leader?

Vacature has posted a test about leadership today.
They make the difference between management & Leadership. I found some of the questions strange, that is, my answer was not among the possibilities. (This says as much about me as about the tests.)
I have 43 on 50. I am happy with that. For my work as an [...]

Deciding by E-mail

After the first European bootcamp, the booted team stayed in contact.
We tried to use the DECIDER in mail & skype and we noticed we needed to change it a little bit to adapt it to the different environment.
When  you decide in a meeting, you are all present and it is possible to show your decision [...]

international survey studying the effects of cooperation on work conditions, and discriminating agile teams/companies

I want to point you to an international survey studying the effects of
cooperation on work conditions, and discriminating agile teams/companies.
The results will be very interesting for the community, gaining some insight
on how cooperative really are agile teams (vs non agile organizations).
Dear Participant:
My name is Delphine ALLIN DOUILLARD, I am a Postgraduate student in Social Psychology, [...]

Viral Icebear

Today I got a mail from an old friend with a cryptic message about an icebear expedition
As I have another friend who just got back from the Beyond limits expedition, I was curious
Not what I expected, but still nice and with good music.

Click here for the expeditie-ijsbeer website
The funny thing is I used to hitchhike [...]

Agile & Prince2…

Recently I start to get more job offers like this:
You will be a PMI or PRINCE 2 certified Project Manager who has a strong track-record of working to a Agile process in software projects.

When I ask more explanations about the project, I usually found out that the team/company wants to work agile and someone else [...]

Use V-lite to create your own stripped down version of Vista

A few weeks ago a colleague was surprised by the speed impact that Vista Ultimate had on a machine that was previously installed with Vista Home edition.
I think he will love V-lite.

 
V-lite will offer the posibility to select yourself what feature of Vista to install. From the default 15 gb to only 1.4  gb. [...]

How many pages do you read a day?

Presentation zen links back to an old talk of Chris Anderson for TEDtalk.
Chris is a great speaker.
Some excerpts:
I started doing something that I have forgotten about in my business focus, I started to read again”
“Our penis or happiness as we say it in English”
 
 
I always loved reading. About 7 years ago, Dirk told me he [...]