Community When Hybrid-Remote, Help Community Care For Community Many experts recommend that hybrid remote events succeed when we separately handle the needs of colocated individuals and the needs of dispersed individuals. This may get you through the event, but it introduces long-term problems in the organization. Any sense of us-vs-them becomes amplified when we take care of the
Community A March Mashup of Remote Facilitation On 18 February 2021, a bunch of facilitators and coaches got together from around the world to share stories from some of their favourite remote sessions. It ended up being pretty inspiring and fun, so we’ve compiled a list with some of the activities shared, with links and ideas
Change Navigating Change While Being Rapidly Remote As we currently face the challenges of the COVID-19 (corona) virus, I see many individuals and teams being forced to rapidly go remote. I’ve been resistant to post on the COVID-19 topic so as not to add to the noise. However, some of the hype around remote work during
Agile Florida Join me at Agile Open Florida on Friday, Oct 25, 2019 2019 marks the sixth year of the Agile Open Florida conference. This conference brings agilists from across Florida (as well as outside the state) to explore, share and learn from each other. And there is much to share. Are you scaling or de-scaling? Should you hybridize your approach? Where does
Community You always lead by example Whether you realize it or not, you always lead by example. If you set a vision and focus everything on that vision, others will follow. If you provide no vision and drive everything by loudest opinion wins, others will follow. If you always seek to build community and help, others
Appreciations I appreciate the Agile Florida community #ThankfulThursday Last Friday (11/18/2016), we held the largest Agile Open Florida conference in our three year history with over 200 people. One of our new sponsors asked me what was the purpose of this event. As I mentioned in our opening, it’s not about the event; it’s
Appreciations Appreciating Sarah Baca - #ThankfulThursday Today, I want to appreciate someone more local to me: Sarah Baca. Sarah joined Agile Orlando in January 2014 and immediately raised her hand to help. She has not stopped since and has been a tremendous help in growing and supporting the Agile Orlando community. If Sarah was standing in
Agile Do you light a fuse or kindling? This is a different kind of post. It’s more personal and a bit longer. But there is a message for anyone who considers himself or herself a leader, a change agent, or even a follower. Allow me to set some context first. I had two friends pass away within
Agile Florida Rocking the Global Scrum Gathering #SGFLA with a Community of Volunteers and Slack In my prior blog post, I mentioned how we formed our group of volunteers for the Global Scrum Gathering in Orlando. Now let me share how we stormed, normed and performed at the gathering! Warning: this may be a bit long (TL;DR) unless you are interested in how we
Agile Florida Forming a Community of Volunteers at the Global Scrum Gathering Orlando #SGFLA It’s been a little over a week since the Global Scrum Gathering in Orlando and our Agile Florida Slack community is still buzzing. The buzz is mostly from our volunteers! The April 2016 Global Scrum Gathering was the first time they leveraged volunteers to assist with the speakers and
Community Is Virtual Co-Working Possible? Since the Distributed agile teams conference in Berlin (Nov 2015), I’ve been experimenting with a number of techniques to work virtually. One of my latest experiments with Lisette Sutherland and Pilar Orti is on virtual co-working. First, let’s discuss co-working. Co-working has exploded over the last decade as
Agile Florida Scrum Gathering Orlando - Mission Accomplished First, my apologies to my readers for the not writing for a couple of months. Things have been quiet on my blog for a number of reasons. I reviewed two tracks for the Agile2016 conference and prepared three submissions (two of which were accepted). Also, I have been preparing for
Community Connect for Community in Distributed Teams Late in 2015, I participated in a great discussion with Ryan Ripley and David Horowitz on distributed agile teams on the Agile For Humans podcast. In that discussion, I mentioned “the importance of explicitly encouraging communication in the team; otherwise it’s not a company just a bunch of people”
Agile Thankful Thursday: AgileOrlando, AgileFlorida, DATFlock and more Over the last week in the USA, there has been a welcome sentiment of gratitude from last Thursday’s Thanksgiving holiday to #GivingTuesday. Since I’m involved in a few communities, I just wanted to take a moment to thank those who have helped me support others in 2015. First,
Agile Florida Recommendations for someone new to the Product Owner role? I often get questions of the form of “How do I start this (practice/role)?” Recently, I got the following question in a lean coffee (details altered to protect their identity): I’m a manager with a local company who works mainly as a product owner and internal customer point
Agile Florida Long live @AgileFlorida (RIP Orlando Scrum) This post is part celebration of agile in Florida and part bitter-sweet memories for me. I rarely share personal stories nor long blog posts, but I share the following to encourage others who struggle with building a “user group” or building anything from scratch that cannot be built alone. This
Agile Answering questions from Driving Value with Agile Teams This past Tuesday, I had an opportunity to speak to a combined audience from Central Florida IIBA and Agile Orlando. It was a great session and I hope everyone had as much fun as I did! Thank you for the opportunity. If anyone took photos, please let me know so
Community Come hear how to adapt your agile career at AgileOrlando Tue 6:30p (just sent this note out to the AgileOrlando community and thought it was worth sharing widely … I’ll post an update after the event) This week is Orlando Tech Week and as part of that AgileOrlando a very special session tomorrow night called Adapting Your Agile Career. I have asked
Community How to build your tribe at Agile Coach Camp Agile Coach Camp is not just for agile coaches. It is for anyone who wants to build their knowledge and connections within the agile community. But you may have a few questions. What is Agile Coach Camp? In a nutshell, Agile Coach Camp is an event that provides many opportunities
Agile Florida Reflecting on Agile Open Florida It’s been over 2 weeks since Agile Open Florida happened and I’m still buzzing with the possibilities of where Florida can go next. Not only did we hold our first state-wide open space for agilists, but we were able to have one of my favorite OST facilitators, Ainsley
Agile The 4 R’s of Sustainable Pace This is a lesson I’ve struggled to capture for over a year. In that time, I’ve made a few changes both personally and professionally and, when asked why, my answer has typically been “sustainable pace”. But it was difficult to explain beyond that. After some time to reflect,
Agile Florida Serving Lean Coffee to build a Learning Community Lean Coffee is a lightweight way for self-organizing a group of people together to share information. Originally started by Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith in 2009 in Seattle, I have found it can be a very simple way to bring together or build a community. I have been running lean
Agile The first key of successful teams and organizations For any team or organization I start to coach, I seek out three things that will immediately tell me the group health and if they will be successful at any goals they set. Those three things are: (1) Vision, (2) Values, and (3) Agreements. Whether it is a 8-person delivery
Agile Agile Orlando reboots - Lean Community Startup I’m very excited to announce that Agile Orlando will be rebooting on July 23, 2013! Our goal is to grow knowledge within the Central Florida community on lean and agile project management and software development. I’d like to share how we started and what we intend to do.
