This past Saturday in Bozeman, Montana I was fortunate enough to speak from the main stage about Crafting Great Code. You can see the slides here: Crafting Great Code from Harold Shinsato
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Educating with Agile – Zero to Pro in 12 Weeks
Let’s take a look at education and agile, two awesome topics that fit together beautifully, and how they come together to help people become professional web developers in a very short period in Montana. A great deal of my blog has been devoted to my experience of the Agile Software Development movement and trying to […]
Statue of Responsibility
The Statue of Liberty seemed so small from Battery Park in Manhattan. We visited that statue as part of a cub scout event, but for me the statue’s relevance didn’t truly register until high school when greater awareness dawned of how many left poverty and oppressive regimes for the promise (if not always the reality) […]
¡Viva la Revolución!
If you are reading these words, welcome to my Revolution. Or Evolution. This is a post about Authority. The slides below were from the talk I presented in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Agile CultureCon this past June. The question of authority has been a passion for some time. The bumper on my first car sported a […]
butterflies turn into slime
In May at the World Open Space on Open Space 2013 in Saint Petersburg, Florida, I convened a session concerning one of the official roles in an Open Space Technology conference, the butterfly. This “role”, the butterfly, is quite loose and it is a role one can easily slip into and out of. The butterfly […]
Fueling the Agile Fire in Tractors @JohnDeer
It’s been months since I visited Chad Holdorf, the agile “ninja” who walks the halls of the John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group (ISG) in Des Moines. Chad also influences all of ISG organization out to Illinois, Germany, India, and more, affecting at least 1200 people. When I think back on my experience, I’m still in […]
Everything is Changing
Joe Justice gave the closing keynote at Agile 2012 a few days ago. I’ve written several times about the shifts that are happening in the software industry because of this “agile” stuff. Joe shows how he’s produced in 3 months a street legal safe beautiful car that competed in the X prize and has also […]
Jim McCarthy and Culture Hacking
Jim McCarthy, author of the Dynamics of Software Development and co-author with his wife Michele of Software For Your Head, showed up at the Agile Open Northwest conference last week with a protective plastic layer he unfolded on one of the lunch tables. He sat there with blank canvases, paint, and a menu of conversations […]
Do you know the “Why”?
Simon Sinek delivers a powerful message about how great leaders inspire action. Do you know the “why” you do what you do, or what your company or team does?
Discovery versus Judgment
I have a confession. I judge that judgment sucks and that exploration, discovery, and growth are better. Before you flip the Bozo Bit on me for judging judgement, let me start by saying that my preference for exploration is leading to a greater understanding of the power and place for judgment and evaluation. But first […]