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Why You Want a BackChannel in Distributed Meetings

kg-card-begin: html When I started facilitating my first distributed meetings, I ran into a problem that many encounter: my primary collaboration tool would...

Gifts and Greats for True Feedback

kg-card-begin: html Sometimes I ask for feedback and other times I feel I can serve someone by providing feedback. Also there may be cases where you are...

Perfect feedback for an agile coach

kg-card-begin: html Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been trying out a new peer feedback system at Sonatype. I asked for feedback from some of the teams...

Where can I find a cool agile remote job?

kg-card-begin: html So I’ve been getting this question recently as I blog more about it. Here are my suggestions: update your LinkedIn profile to reflect any...

Agile Roadtrip to Valpak

kg-card-begin: html This past Thursday I had an opportunity to road trip from Orlando to Tampa to meet with folks from Valpak whom I’ll be collaborating with...

Agile2015 - 3 stories of successful distributed agile teams (I hope)

February 23, 2015

kg-card-begin: html Some folks have asked me “Why 3 submissions”? The typical strategy for the Agile20xx conference is to get in more than one with the hope...

Answering questions from Driving Value with Agile Teams

February 22, 2015

kg-card-begin: html This past Tuesday, I had an opportunity to speak to a combined audience from Central Florida IIBA and Agile Orlando. It was a great...

Remotely Agile: The Buddy System

October 14, 2014

kg-card-begin: html Over the last 10 years, while learning how agile methodologies can work in different industries and organizations, I also discovered how...

Come hear how to adapt your agile career at AgileOrlando Tue 6:30p

September 29, 2014

kg-card-begin: html (just sent this note out to the AgileOrlando community and thought it was worth sharing widely … I’ll post an update after the event)...

Deep skills not soft skills

September 2, 2014

kg-card-begin: html Something that always makes me wince is the term “soft skills”. Dictionary.com gives the following definition of soft: yielding readily...

How to build your tribe at Agile Coach Camp

August 24, 2014

kg-card-begin: html Agile Coach Camp is not just for agile coaches. It is for anyone who wants to build their knowledge and connections within the agile...

Agile2014 - Let's Build a Better Tribe

August 13, 2014

kg-card-begin: html It’s been 12 days since Agile2014 ended and I’m still struggling to answer the most frequently asked question from colleagues and agile...

My advice for attending Agile2014

kg-card-begin: html A new attendee to Agile2014 contacted me and asked me what they should look for in next week’s conference. Here is my response: pick 2-3...

Why 3 Agile2014 Lightning Talk submissions?

kg-card-begin: html Agile2014 is right around the corner (both in time and geography for me). While my submissions did not get accepted earlier this year,...

Reflecting on Agile Open Florida

kg-card-begin: html 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...

The 4 R’s of Sustainable Pace

kg-card-begin: html https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasleuthard/10891456256/ This is a lesson I’ve struggled to capture for over a year. In that time, I’ve...

Agile Open Florida on June 27

kg-card-begin: html The first Agile Open Space conference is coming to Florida on June 27! Since I attended my first open space at XP Universe 2001, I have...

kg-card-begin: html Today marks a reboot of my coaching career, this blog, and a focus on developing new techniques on collaboration and building more...

Serving Lean Coffee to build a Learning Community

October 4, 2013

kg-card-begin: html Lean Coffee is a lightweight way for self-organizing a group of people together to share information. Originally started by Jim Benson...

Reflections on Agile2013

August 26, 2013

kg-card-begin: html I’ve been struggling to summarize the best way to describe what happened at Agile2013. It’s been 3 weeks now and I’ve come to this...

Successful agile transformations come in 3's

August 20, 2013

kg-card-begin: html I’ve been swamped since the Agile2013 conference, but wanted to share an answer to a recent question: “How does Agile and Lean thinking...

How to build Facilitation Muscle online.

kg-card-begin: html (Oct 2018 – Unfortunately, Janet Danforth passed away recently and her partner, Robert Moir, has retired. Still, I leave this article...

What's In It For Others? (WIIFO)

kg-card-begin: html Last Wednesday I was invited by AgileBill Krebs to share my thoughts on the evolution of teams on Agile Witness News. We discussed some...

Agile Orlando reboots - Lean Community Startup

kg-card-begin: html 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...

The FmFuFo model for resonant teams

kg-card-begin: html As a coach of coaches, this is a question I often get from new agile coaches and scrummasters. Many are familiar with the Tuckman model...

Breaking the right rules?

kg-card-begin: html This blog was inspired by one question: How do I coach myself? As an agile coach that has coached numerous individuals and organizations...

Getting started

kg-card-begin: html This blog will share my thoughts on various topics … some agile, some on other topics that are of interest to me. Stay tuned. kg-card-...