I propose we replace Best Practise by great practise

It all started with this tweet from J.B. Rainsberger:
jbrains I consider never using the phrase "best practice" a best practice. #wcr09
 
 
I RT this, just like many other people.
I like to think I immediately understood what JB mend. For me it what it means is that, from the moment people start to call [...]

The slides of my talk at AgileEE: Tips for creating a self-organizing team

 
As I had a problem with my timer, I skipped the video of Agile Hitler during my talk. For the people that saw my talk,it should have come before the slide with the responsibility of Christopher Avery. (I wanted people to realize they saw examples of the not taking responsibility in the video).
For the [...]

Apple’s view of the future as seen in the 8o’ties

At the Agile 2009 conference, Jared M. Spool used this video during his keynote.
It was how Apple envisioned the future in the 1980’s.

Jared said Apple used that video internally to take decisions.
Remember this was invisioned before the internet existed, even before cellphone’s.
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Upcoming agile conferences 2009

While I’m missing  Agile Open Holland today, time to reflect on the Conferences I do go to.
I will be talking at Agile Eastern Europe about leadership (18-20 Sep 2009 Kiev) http://www.agileee.org/
The same talk I will be giving on the Agile Tour in Geneve (12 october 2009) http://www.agiletour.org/fr/at2009_geneve.html
Agile Tour TorontoI get a lot of mails from [...]

I finished reading the Agile coaching book

Agile Coaching is the book I wish I had read when I started coaching my first team. While agile is spreading fast, a lot of people take on coaching roles, these people finally have a book to find the answer for their questions. The book Rachel & Liz wrote is not only good for people [...]

Leadership Game @ Agile2009 Chicago

On the last day of Agile 2009 in Chicago I played the leader game in Open Jam. This was the first time I played it in Open Space.
I was afraid that people would not show up or walk away. They did show up and instead of people walking of, more people joined.
(To be exact [...]

Rally Chalk Talk: The daily meeting

My three questions:
1 What have I finished yesterday.
2 What do I commit to finish today
3 Where do I need help?
==>So these are a little bit different as the ones from Jean.
I don’t make the link between what I promised yesterday and what I have done yesterday. Because it might be that [...]

Redesigning Agility

 
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Daniel Pink on intrinsic & extrinsic motivation

Esther Derby gave a great presentation @ Agile 2009 called Performance without Appraisals: what to do about performance reviews.
In this TED talk, Daniel Pink quote’s some research that proves why appraisals don’t work for Information Workers.

 
Vera Peters and myself gave a workshop in London on the same topic. You can find [...]

A new BootCamp is on it’s way

Almost a year after the last European BootCamp I’m organizing another one.
In my (obviously biased) opinion, BootCamp is the best way to learn how to create team’s.Jim & Michele McCarthy started doing Bootcamps when they left Microsoft, now 15 years ago.
The idea was to create a course were people would learn how to create a [...]