Yesterday (March 13) I presented a tutorial at QCon, "Agile Leadership: From Managment that Controls to Management that Facilitates." We had quite a good time in the session which I seeded with a number of appreciative inquiry-style questions for added flavor. The universe rewarded me with an alert to an article by Brian Button in the latest AgileChronicles, The hardest part of being an Agile Project Manager. In it, he beautifully describes an instance of management that facilitates. Thank you, Brian. :-)
It’s Wednesday—the day my automated “to-do” list tells me to write a blog post, if I haven’t already posted one this week. I’m in the middle of a trip to London to speak at Qcon. Traveling to exotic (!) places distracts me from things like writing blog posts. Since the reminder came up, and I noticed I haven’t written one this week, I began to look around.
Luckily, CIO magazine has come to my rescue. Michael Hugos offers his thoughts on A Formula to Measure Business Agility in a link from this week’s CIO Insider email. In...
I started to write a blog post about designing a retrospective flow from an Appreciative Inquiry perspective. My little blog post grew into an article. It's posted on the Amplifying Your Effectiveness (AYE) Conference site.
Click to read "An Appreciative Retrospective."
I'm presenting at AYE in November this year. I hope to see you there.
On January 25, Esther and I gave a TechTalk at Google. You can watch it here.
Today someone wrote with an inquiry, "What kinds of questions should one ask when doing a retrospective? What specific areas should a leader think about when drafting a retrospective, regardless of the rest of the format?"
I found this a difficult question to answer, yet I resisted writing back, "It depends." Though it does depend, on a number of factors, but most of all the goal. So, here's what I wrote back to him.
In Agile Retrospectives, Esther and I recommend setting a goal for each retrospective, then tailoring the activities and questions to that goal. Many teams have an...