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 [...]

LEGO Needed in Toronto on Wednesday 6 august

On Wednesday 6 august I am delivering our leadership game at Agile 2008. This game uses a lot of LEGO.
We have two options: moving all my Lego to Toronto (and find people that can help transport it, as it seems that we might be having to much to take with 2 people.
Or find people in [...]

Timebox your team with an hourglass…

 
During most of my workshops I am using hourglasses.
Last Monday during another successful GTD course, I got again the question about where I bought them.
I buy them online at Minerva Online. If you need them urgently, send me a mail I still have a lot of them at home.
 
I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual [...]

Het verschil tussen een harde schijf en het geheugen van je computer…

Op vraag van Els nog een stukje voor PC-leken.
Ikzelf heb mijn eerste stappen in de IT wereld gezet als help desk medewerker. Ik vind dat nog steeds de beste manier voor een ontwikkelaar, analyst of projetc coach om te begrijpen hoe een eindgebruiker denkt.
Een probleem dat telkens opnieuw opdook was het verschil tussen een harde [...]

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 [...]

I want a Toshiba M-700, they don’t want to sell it to me…

I have been postponing to buy a new PC for a long time.
Last week my hard drive crashed, only a week after reinstalling my machine. I luckily I was able to clone my harddisk, the same night. Everything woks fine now, but it was the sign to start looking for a new machine.
After working with [...]

The system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory. Systeem-DLL-bestand user32.dll is verplaatst in het geheugen.

 
My favorite sales person, had another problem on his machine:
Systeem-DLL-bestand user32.dll is verplaatst in het geheugen. De toepassing zal niet goed werken. De verplaatsing was nodig omdat DLL-bestand C:\WINDOWS\system32\HHCTRL.OCX een adresbereik in beslag nam dat was gereserveed voor systeem-DLL bestanden van Windows. Neem contact op met de leverancier van het DLL-bestand voor een nieuwe versie.
Or [...]