Why we don’t have negative experience reports at agile conferences.

Last year at a number of agile conferences I had similar conversations were I wondered why we had so little negative experience reports at agile conferences.
I know that there are agile projects that are failing. I’m convinced that when you do an agile project, you will see problems earlier. Some companies might decide at that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Google CEO says everybody needs a coach

 
One thing people are never good at, is seeing how others see them. Ine explained this some time ago with some more words (dutch blog post)
Yep. As I am coaching both team’s and individuals I agree. Do I have a coach? Yes I have had several coaches the last years. At [...]

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 [...]

Agile Coach: a must have book for agile coaches

As founder of PairCoaching.net I ‘m very interested in the work that was done by two people.
When I go to a conference and I have to select between two sessions, if one of them is delivered by 2 or more people, I select that one;
Because I know the chance that this delivers movre value is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Why is the Listen protocol better then the talking stick?

Yesterday I published the listen protocol. In my opinion a smarter way of solving a conflict then the Talking Stick I talked about a few months ago.
I got some question as why I found it smarter then the talking stick.
There is not much difference between both. One problem that people sometimes have with the talking [...]

New pictures from ESSAP

Mateo has put his ESSAP pictures on flickr.
He has a few nice ones from me and Els working together.
We really enjoyed leading the PairCoaching.net leadership game together that we decided that we would do this again at Agile 2008.
I don’t have much possibilities to work with Els. So I’m very happy we do this together. [...]

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. [...]