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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Our Team Compensation Workshop @ XP Day London.

After doing my presentation with Jef at Devoxx earlier this week, I was really looking forward to go at XPDay London.
Especially as Vera and I planned to do a session on
Team Motivation
vs
Individual Compensating Systems.
I’m working with both Jef & Vera at the Belgium Post.
Vera and I came up with this idea when we talked about [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

7 tips to compensate your agile team…

George Dinwiddie wrote about agile compensation yesterday. I agree with the idea’s he is writing about, I don’t agree with the link he points to. That compensation list is all about personal compensation. In fact some of them kill team momentum. So I wrote my own compensating tips.
A good team compensation:

is Value based
I think a [...]