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Forward to The Culture Game
The following is the Forward Jim and Michele wrote to the recently published “Culture Game” by Dan Mezick In a good little while, say, 25 years or so – call it a generation – when the ideas and practices – many of them first covered in this book, others still awaiting fuller notice and deeper development; when all these ideas…
Forward to TFS Book
The following is the Forward Jim wrote to the recently published “Professional Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2010″ by Steve Resnick, Aaron Bjork, and Michael de la Maza. Agile was always something you could be before it was a particular process you could do. And it was always possible for a team to line up in a tight formation and…
Leadership vs. Leadership
Please welcome another guest blogger, Paul Reeves, a veteran BootCamp instructor and good friend. michele No, the title isn’t a typo. It is worth considering the difference between assigned leadership and true leadership and how the two interact in a variety of environments. Since the Core Protocols, as used in BootCamp, provide for dynamic leadership behaviour from any team member,…
The Core Dimension
Please welcome a guest blogger, Vickie Gray, a certified Core Instructor for more years than I can remember….. michele The Core Dimension When folks talk about whether Agile, or XP, or any other working method is as good as or better than the Core, they’ve lost the plot. One isn’t “good” or not, compared to another. The Core is in…
I Won’t Ask
Today I watched a piece on Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks. Katy Couric interviewed Mr. Schultz, and it didn’t seem to go well. But that’s not what this post is about. There was a clip of the famous CEO speaking at a company function, and he said something to the effect of “I won’t ask you to do anything that…
Great Education
There are many people right now devoting their careers to making changes in education that lead to greatness. One of the most captivating stories is that of Geoffrey Canada in Paul Tough’s “Whatever it takes.” Canada is on a mission to bring the neighborhood of Harlem out of poverty. At the time of the writing of “Whatever,” Canada was changing…
Acceptance
I think one of the traits the protocols help you acquire is acceptance. Recently I experienced the benefits and abundance of acceptance. I was on a great tennis team. The captain was great. The players were great. I was treated very respectfully by everyone. It was the best tennis team I had ever been on as an adult. Soon, the…
