Agile Teams

in case any of you noticed that these sites were offline for several days - we’re now back online. the outage was due to a horrible Navisite botch-up of server migrations. an outage planned for less than a day was started over the weekend; domain access problems still aren’t fully resolved. agileteams came back less than 24 hrs ago and I’m crossing my fingers that it will stay up for good now.

see http://www.agileadvert.org/ for a creative approach to use of ‘web 2.0′ for evangelizing agile (in conjunction with Agile 2007)

I found this discussion on the nature of coaching interesting.

I discovered today that the AIS India website references one of my presentations on agile and TSP (the crossover kayak analogy).

hope you enjoy these - I did

this book was mentioned in a meeting today by a EE (power systems guy) who recommends it highly … thought I’d pass it along:

On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines (ebook, hardcopy)

I am currently reading the book An Unused Intelligence by Andy Bryner and Dawna Markova. It’s a insightful book which addresses questions like:

• How do you manage job stress and change the ways of thinking that contribute to it?
• How do we create trust and support on the job when everything keeps changing?
• How do we establish mutual respect for diverse needs in the workplace?
• How do we find personal intent and shared vision in the distraction of day-to-day work challenges?
• How do we get more effective results using fewer resources?
• How do we perceive the whole instead of just thinking about how we can survive individually?

Using your physical intelligence will help you answer those questions. Ultimately, it is a book about how you explore and act on the callings of your soul. It is about simultaneously benefiting yourself and the world of which you are a part.

Recently found a really interesting experience report on running a globally distributed workshop online, in this Open The Future post by Jamais Cascio.

Not only has it revived my interest in working remotely more on my current projects, this article reminded me that I’m overdue to revisit the research work being done in distributed pairing and tools/environments to support it …

Thought-provoking, controversial article about agile methods, on Worse Than Failure’s blog/website

if Amazon and wikipedia had a child together, it might look like this. or not