Video BarCampGhent 2008

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This is the video from IBBT, I still did not finish mine.
I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project Coach and you can reach me @ Yves at my agile training company .net

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XP Days France 2008 - Paris, je t’aime…

On Monday 05 may & Tuesday 06 may my father and I were in Paris. Instead of visiting this beautifully city we enjoyed the people from the French Agile community.
Although the organization before was rather chaotic, XPDay.FR 2008 itself was splendid.
The first thing I noticed when we arrived was the Job Board. Hey [...]

Ask for help…

Last week I rescued Christophe Thibaut in a mail. He was actually glad about the result. ( I proposed to use the 5 Why’s and the 9 boxes in an answer on a checkin of him.)
He replied with this general ask for help:
Ask for help : If you have some piece of advice in mind, [...]

Artikel over Bootcamp gepubliceerd in Bizz magazine

Vorige week verscheen een artikel in Bizz Magazine over BootCamp. Gino Marckx zegt daarin dat BootCamp: “Het is de beste opleiding die ik ooit heb gevolgd”
Als je geintereseerd bent in coaching-seminaries moet je zeker Bizz van Mei 2008 kopen. I quote “Bizz testte een aantal originele of populaire coaching technieken die afwijken van het traditionele [...]

De top 10 van redenen om nee te zeggen tegen “Reboot to Team 2.0”

1) Mijn projecten eindigen op tijd en binnen budget zonder probleem.
2) Elk team waar ik mee gewerkt heb had een gedeelde visie
3) In vergadering doen we alleen wat resultaat opleverd
4) Niemand steekt de schuld op management of iemand anders, als ze niet krijgen wat ze willen.
5) Iedereen deelt zijn beste ideeen onmiddellijk
6) Ideeen worden onmiddellijk [...]

Does your company work with external project managers/project leaders/Project coaches?

As a a freelance project coach, I am sometimes confronted with the fact that a company only wants to work with internal people. I’m trying to understand what is their motivation. To do that I asked these questions on linked in yesterday.
Does your company work with external project managers/project leaders/Project coaches? What are the advantages [...]

5 things I learned during my studying for my psychology exam

As part of my first year of my GTO training, I have to do an exam Psychology next Wednesday.
Next to the things I learned about ratifications on which I posted in blogs about positive and negative ratifications and 5 conditions for effective punishments 
I also learned a few surprising things while reading / studying the book [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Praise public and long, blame private and quick!

Some time ago, I was working as a project coach. Everything was fine, I was working with a great team, iterations were delivered on time.
Their was a small problem in the company. One person did not deliver on time. The person was nice, but he constantly under delivered.
I proposed to the CEO to [...]

Home again…

I’m Checking in
I’m GLAD I’m home with my family again.I’m SAD the second European Reboot To Team 2.0 (BootCamp) is overI’m GLAD it was even better then last timeI’m GLAD we have shipped on time every time (10x) this week and will do this another 81 times the next 9 months.I’m MAD a lazy Belgium [...]

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 [...]