Guest blogging @ 5 why’s

Roy Osherove has asked me if I wanted to blog some guest posts on his 5 why’s blog on the Core protocols.

my introduction 
my first post on the check-in protocol.

This link should give you all the post’s I’m blogging there.
I  am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach [...]

The Fun Factor

This video shows how you can change people’s behavior when you make them have fun.
 

I’m just back from Toronto where I did two workshops next to AgileTourToronto. Last day was AgileGameDay. A whole day of playing games to learn serious stuff.
The reasons for me behind these [...]

10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr"

I have been talking about real life deployment at Flickr for a few years. People have been asking me numbers or places where they could verify what I said. Problem was I did not remember where I read that Flickr deployed every 3 hours.
Here are the slides.
[...]

The power of the junior on the team

I know some senior developers that don’t like PairProgram with juniors as they slow them down. First of all, the speed of the team (and thus the velocity of the team) is determent by the slowest on the team, not by the fastest. First reaction could be: let’s throw out these juniors. [...]

Facilitating: the skill of multiple partiality

As an agile coach I do quite some retrospectives. My partner asked me a few days ago how it was possible that a team that did not know me, trusted me to do their retrospective.
What I told her was that it goes much better then when I do a retrospective for a team I’m [...]

Announcing courses in Toronto

After my successful sessions @ Agile2009 & AgileEE, I’m also doing a talk at some of the Agile Tour events:
Agile Tour Geneve (12 october) http://www.agiletour.org/fr/at2009_geneve.html Agile Tour Toronto (20 october) http://www.agiletour.org/fr/at2009_toronto.html Agile Tour Bordeaux (29 October) http://agiletour.org/fr/at2009_bordeaux.html
XP Days Benelux (23-24November – Benelux) [...]

How to work with a whiteboard with a distributed team?

On agile conferences and on agile mailing list every once in a while the same question pop’s up:
"What tool should I use to keep track of my team."
I answer this every time again with a question: what are you using right now.I want to know why people want to use a tool. These days there [...]

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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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 [...]

Agile conferences

To my big surprise I have not been blogging about the upcoming Agile conferences.
I’ll be going to Agile 2009 in Chicago. This is the agile conference to be. Neatly organized by different stages like festivals.
Unfortunately this year non of my sessions got accepted; Oh well leave’s me more time to follow other sessions and [...]

Visual Management Blog

In the middle of a team restructure (downsizing), a few ill kids, a large personal todo list for upcoming agile conferences, a heavy Gestalt training year, I get an e-mail from my former collegue Xavier, that he stared a new blog about Visual Management. I was not surprised, as Xavier lives and breaths Visual Management. [...]

Rocks into Gold

If you don’t want to read the stry in PPT, you can order the book online: http://www.rocksintogold.com/ I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project Coach and you can reach me @ Yves at my agile training company .net

Hey Scrum master let your team decide

Patrick & Peter have published their video’s of their great xpday benelux session

Since Geike was born and we made teh birthday card with playmobile I have been thinking about creating agile video’s with playmobile. Patrick and Peter beat me [...]

Don’t gossip…

One of the things I have tried to do in all the companies I work for, is don’t talk about people not present. When I teached .NET I gave a lot of examples, sometimes examples of how things were done in a bad way at a previous client. When I gave these examples I made [...]

Article about Bootcamp published in Business ICT…

After the article in Bizz magazine, Business ICT now published an article about BootCamp.
Dutch Version
French Version
Although BootCamp is something people should experience and not just talk about, I’m happy with how Davy explains in this article how to use the Core Protocols.
I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project Coach and you can reach me [...]

Project management, lessons learned from failed Project "Form government for Belgium"

You won’t find a lot of politics on this blog. On the day that Yves Leterme failed after 1 year to create a plan for his government, I want to use that as an example to talk about Project management.
In every project we have 4 variables:
Resources: the people
Time: The deadline when you have to deliver [...]

I’m putting my children’s names in my biography, CV etc…

I’m the father of Joppe (2002, Bent (2004), Geike(2007)
Whenever I send my CV or put my biography somewhere, I get the remark why do you put the fact that you have 3 kids in there?
Well I’m proud of being a father, I know that being a father influences how I think about leadership. [...]

Euro BootCamp 3 is over…

This was my first BootCamp as a Certified BootCamp trainer. EuroBootCamp3 was a complete French BootCamp as all the participants came from French companies.

I will perfect the camp:
I give it a 9 out of 10.
What I like about it:
 

The team we ended with
My co-Trainers
The location
Steven From Koningsteen
The Core protocols
The Pictures we all took
The Integrity of [...]