3 reason’s to wear a seatbelt…

Today I am helping my kids school to reward people for wearing a seatbelt. When my kids take of their seatbelt while driving, I pull over. These days they tell me when I forget to buckle them up. For their safety and mine.

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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 [...]

Who Trusts You

Who do you trust? And who trusts you?
Team work is about building trust inside a team. To promote the FranklinCovey course and book they have build a website: WhoTrustsYou.
I took the survey and now I am asked to send it to a lot of people.
It feels like the Facebook app Circle of Trusts.
Anyway I trust [...]

Weg met twee?

Tijdens mijn tijdperk als Lodejo DJ (en veel meer) heb ik Karel Lootens leren kennen, en heb later samen met hem (en een pak anderen) Jeugdwerknet opgericht. Spijtig genoeg hebben we beiden een te druk leven met een kroost en een eigen bedrijf om elkaar IRL veel tegen te komen.
Ik ben zijn projecten wel blijven [...]

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 [...]

Our first family meeting with a 5 year and a 3 year old.

As you can see in our family’s newyears video, breakfast at our place is always a “heroes happen here” event.
When my partner has breakfast with the kids alone: it works fine.
When I have breakfast with them it is ok too. The challenges start when we are both there.
We tend to have both our own way [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Speed of Trust:officially announced

Today I received a mail from my friends at FranklinCovey Belgium.  Looks like I pre-announced their session about trust
We are  proud to announce:
The MasterClass on “The Speed of Trust” by Stephen M.R. Covey on Wednesday evening June 18th, 2008 in De Zuiderkoon in Antwerp.
As of today, we are starting the registration of participants.  And as [...]

Reboot to team 2.0 is the perfect follow up after a CSM (Certified Scrum master class)

Sven followed a great CSM with Joseph Pelrine. (I have followed already multiple courses with Joseph. including my own CSM. I agree he is great.)
Svens next step is learning about self-organizing teams.
I have a few tips for Sven and every other CSM.
1) Check out my post about self organizing teams.
2) As I told you [...]

Speed of Trust

During David Anderson’s talk about building trust at XP.be (@JavaPolis), he mentioned a few books about Trust that came out the last years. The Speed trust was one of them.
Long term readers know I am a big fan of FranklinCovey. I think the Covey son is ready to follow the Covey father.
Well Stephen M R [...]