How are Maps made?

The EU has given green light for TomTom to buy TeleAtlas
TeleAtlas is on of the big companies that are using Agile techniques to develop their software. When I talk with people about their GPS system, they sometimes ask me how these cards are made. This is a nice movie that shows a little bit of [...]

Linkedin group BarCamp Gent

I created a linkedin group for people that where available @BarCamp in Gent
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/102516/6A0E7F5279BF
 

I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project Coach and you can reach me @ Yves at my agile training company .net
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TMN: An unknown three letter word, to check if people know what they are talking about.

Michel and Els brought it up. So many people in IT use words they hardly understand and when they do they don’t take the time to explain the basics.
TMN: stands for This Means Nothing. I use it in meetings where people use 3 letter words all the time and I have the feeling not everyone [...]

GTD & Priorities

Wednesday I gave a Topless GTD course. Getting things done looks at time management Bottom up. First starts with everything you have to do and when you have this all covered you can start with the long term. As I had some questions about long term I talked also about the 4 quadrants of FranklinCovey. [...]

FC Nerds and the execution gap…

Yesterday evening I saw FC NERDS a (new ?) TV show about a NERD football team coached by a professional coach.
FC Nerds - Trailer - MyVideo België
Creating a team our of a bunch or nerds? Hey that is what I am doing for a living. I have to see the show.
It made me think about [...]

Ship Teams keep shipping great products on time

Yesterday I received this painting.
As I have written earlier Ship Team is planning to ship 81 times on time every time.
Oh and we are planning to ship great products every time.
I don’t know what you think of this picture, but it looks great to me. I’m afraid to touch it. I know that [...]

Octo Seminar with Neil Armstrong is online

During the Seattle bootcamp with the Octo managment they invented a seminar. Top speakers would be Neil Armstrong, Eliyahu Goldratt and Bjarne Stroustrup.
We are a few weeks later and their program is already online. It’s even stronger than these 3 speakers. Just look at the complete list of speakers
Having someone as Neil Armstrong to talk [...]

You don’t know what you don’t know

Jim McCarthy left Microsoft a few years after this speech (1996) and started doing bootcamps. He and his wife Michele are the only people I know that have created a course on creating teams by doing that over and over for the last 12 years.
I’m biased as I am organising the European ones. [...]

Video of Stephen R Covey about the Talking Stick

Small video of Stephen Covey about the Indian Talking Stick.
 See my training @BarCamp Gent about “Win WIn Win with a talking stick“
I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project Coach and you can reach me @ Yves at my agile training company .net
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Win Win Win with a Talking Stick

I was a busy boy on BarCampGhent.
After my presentation about Self-organizing Teams, I gave another presentation on the use of the Talking Stick.
I learned about the talking stick when reading “The seven habits of effective people” from Stephan R Covey. It’s a book I give to a lot of people with who I [...]

The Myth of Self-organizing Teams

Saturday @ BarCamp Gent I did a presentation on Self organizing teams.
It was a succesor of my blog post how to grow a self-organizing team. I also talked about how the McCarthy Bootcamp has found a way to replace the storming phase with a more mature and result driven team interaction. I will write about [...]

Your house is on fire:you can save only one thing, what would it be?

Been there, done that, I had no more t-shirts.
Holiday 1991, my parents go on holiday, leaving their 19 year old son at home for the first time. During the day I work at the Playground for kids in Lochristi. (Speelplein werking ) During the nights I go out at the “Gentse Fieste“.
One of the [...]

Download tool for the whole .NET framework source code

John Robbins & Ilya Ryzhenkov created  a tool to download the source from the .NET library
via Chris Sells
I  am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net
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Great interview with Reboot to team 2.0(BootCamp) graduate

At this moment I’m organizing my life around selling Reboot to Team  (Used to be called BootCamp)
Selling Bootcamp is both hard and easy. Every person I know that is booted is a walking commercial for BootCamp. The problem with that, is that it sounds a like a religion.
It’s not. BootCamp will help you to get [...]

Intrinsic Motivation: What motivates you in your project?

When creating teams,  motivating people is important. I think Intrinsic motivation (motivation coming from the inside) is much more important then external motivation.
IT people care a lot about their work. Hell, we create a lot of Holy war’s because we care so much.
This summer my 5 year old son  was learning to swim. He enjoyed [...]

MS Marketing using Linkedin

Microsoft is preparing the launch of Windows Server 2008.
They are using every channel they have.
I love the use of LinkedIn  LoneServer.
(Thanks Joris for the Tip)
I  am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net
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Our new years wishes 2008 on You tube (English version)

We wish you
an aware enjoying
of a great happy healthy 2008
Yves, Els, Joppe, Bent, Geike
Hanoulle-Ryssen
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DisplayLink demos multi-monitor USB dongle

I really have been dreaming about this kind of technology.
Finally I can have enough monitors on my laptops.
Update: Before you buy one of these check out this article. I will probably go for a Matrox TripleHead2Go
I  am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net
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Nieuwjaarswensen 2008 via YouTube

English Version

We wensen jullie een bewust genieten van een geweldig gelukkig gezond 2008.
Aangezien we niet konden kiezen uit al onze foto’s, hebben we een video collage gemaakt van ons jaar 2007.
Veel kijk plezier.
Yves, Els, Joppe, Bent & Geike Hanoulle-Ryssen
English Version
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Preparing for 2008

When I read “Software for your head”, I loved the protocols. I really thoughed they were a very powerfull way to optimize the communication in a team.
I was not sure how to use them in a team. I only dared to use them in a team after I did follow my Oklahoma bootcamp.
I was blow [...]