Mega-Cindy

Na Peter van de Veire zijn stunt als Mega-Cindy zing ik af en toe van MegaCindy als Joppe en Bent aan het dansen zijn op MegaMindy.
Gisteren begon Joppe spontaan te zingen:
Ik ben MegaCindy.
Ze laat alle boeven vrij
met een pak friet met stoverij

Dit is het stukje van Peter VanDeVeire
Zie ik een vliegtuig,
zie ik een vogel
nee dat [...]

Toshiba: M700 perfection game

A few weeks ago I finally bought the M700 I was talking about in my older post.

Let’s perfect it:
I give it a 8 out of ten
What I like about it:

I like the form factor.
I like the size
I like the weight
I like the fingerprint reader
I like Vista
I like the possibility to turn on/off wifi by an [...]

Safety @ home: 6 month old Geike fell of the kitchen table

I’m checking in,
I’m MAD, SAD, AFRAID: Geike fell from the kitchen table on the floor yesterday.I’m MAD,SAD it was my faultI’m GLAD it was not the boys faultI’m AFRAID she fell on her headI’m SAD, AFRAID I don’t know on what she fell.I’m GLAD she had eaten 3/4 of her meal and did not throw [...]

Why I follow Gestalt Therapy Training (GTO)

I like to improve myself. It’s not that I am unhappy with myself, but I feel that doing nothing to improve myself is like going backwards.
On the projects I worked on, I tried to learn something everyday. I quickly discovered I learned faster by reading non-fiction books. Then I realized that I could learn even [...]

TMN: An unknown three letter word, to check if people know what they are talking about.

Michel and Els brought it up. So many people in IT use words they hardly understand and when they do they don’t take the time to explain the basics.
TMN: stands for This Means Nothing. I use it in meetings where people use 3 letter words all the time and I have the feeling not everyone [...]

GTD & Priorities

Wednesday I gave a Topless GTD course. Getting things done looks at time management Bottom up. First starts with everything you have to do and when you have this all covered you can start with the long term. As I had some questions about long term I talked also about the 4 quadrants of FranklinCovey. [...]

FC Nerds and the execution gap…

Yesterday evening I saw FC NERDS a (new ?) TV show about a NERD football team coached by a professional coach.
FC Nerds - Trailer - MyVideo België
Creating a team our of a bunch or nerds? Hey that is what I am doing for a living. I have to see the show.
It made me think about [...]

XP DAYS France in Paris

This year I am going again to XP Day Paris.
We have proposed three sessions, two of them have been accepted.
The communication game we did in Mechelen at XP Day Benelux.
The other was a brand new session about Self-organizing teams (See my talk about the Myth of Self-organizing teams)
At the same time the organization has moved [...]

Ship Teams keep shipping great products on time

Yesterday I received this painting.
As I have written earlier Ship Team is planning to ship 81 times on time every time.
Oh and we are planning to ship great products every time.
I don’t know what you think of this picture, but it looks great to me. I’m afraid to touch it. I know that [...]

Perfection game on Dutch Scrum Article

More and more companies are going agile. For a small company it is the best way to outperform your big competitors. For a big company it’s the cheapest way of working. (Some big companies have to much money to care about this.) Still I am happy that more and more companies ask me to teach [...]

Tips for/from FP: Famous Partners

This weekend at the end of my GTO weekend, the partners were invited for a small session.
During the first 2 years of the gestalt therapy training, we focus mainly on personal growth. (And trainers show us how to work the gestalt way.)
This means that these 16 people that follow the training talk alot about their [...]

Our first family meeting with a 5 year and a 3 year old.

As you can see in our family’s newyears video, breakfast at our place is always a “heroes happen here” event.
When my partner has breakfast with the kids alone: it works fine.
When I have breakfast with them it is ok too. The challenges start when we are both there.
We tend to have both our own way [...]

Octo Seminar with Neil Armstrong is online

During the Seattle bootcamp with the Octo managment they invented a seminar. Top speakers would be Neil Armstrong, Eliyahu Goldratt and Bjarne Stroustrup.
We are a few weeks later and their program is already online. It’s even stronger than these 3 speakers. Just look at the complete list of speakers
Having someone as Neil Armstrong to talk [...]

You don’t know what you don’t know

Jim McCarthy left Microsoft a few years after this speech (1996) and started doing bootcamps. He and his wife Michele are the only people I know that have created a course on creating teams by doing that over and over for the last 12 years.
I’m biased as I am organising the European ones. [...]

Video of Stephen R Covey about the Talking Stick

Small video of Stephen Covey about the Indian Talking Stick.
 See my training @BarCamp Gent about “Win WIn Win with a talking stick“
I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project Coach and you can reach me @ Yves at my agile training company .net
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