As many of us prepare to join family and friends at the upcoming holiday parties and family gatherings, I’d like to offer what I think are the three best items to take with you. Gratitude for our diverse Superpowers: We all have a unique way in which we participate in the world. We come with ‘superpowers’ –… Read More
Micro-ads for Advertising Agility
Launching a new line of business is hard. It is not for the faint of heart! For all of my career, I’ve been a corporate office worker, with an occasional work-from-home option. Now that I’ve moved to Portugal (from the U.S.) and started a coaching business, it was time to break out of my comfort… Read More
Too many backlogs?
As I stood in the line at the grocery store last week, I was reminded of a really difficult math class I took back in the dark ages: Queuing Theory. First requirement on day 1 was to learn to properly spell ‘queue’. Much of the rest of the semester was a foggy blur slogging through… Read More
Mastery is in the Journey
Looking for a few individuals or teams that need to accelerate their learning and get to the next level in the next 60-90 days. Focusing on leadership skills or business agility and value delivery chain. PM me via LinkedIn, email me at thene@greenhatcoaching.com, or use the https://greenhatcoaching.com/services/ page to discuss further.
Coming Soon… Emerging Leader Coaching
Launching a new Emerging Leaders coaching program. Read More
3 Activities for a Scrum Master’s Quiet Time
Check out this article posted directly to LinkedIn.
Coaching in Jello and Glass
Coaching and playing Scrum Master for an agile/scrum team in the midst of a multi-national company with strong IT skills-based, enterprise-wide teams (PMO, BA’s, etc.) is an ongoing challenge between gel (still mostly liquid), jello (sort-of solid, transparent), and glass (it might be transparent, but it isn’t malleable anymore). My current product team develops the… Read More
Retrospectives
In the world of agile software development, and the scrum framework in particular, frequent retrospective sessions with the team are a natural part of our work cycle. As scrum master and coach, I bring the team together to discuss how we are getting along with each other, whether we need to tweak our process to… Read More
Agile Living & Life Changing
What a difference a month can make! A month ago, I resigned from a contract as a project manager tracking about 50 projects. It was rote, shallow, and lacked the depth I longed for. A month ago, I worked from home, from my apartment in Braga, and sat on my duff for about 8-9 hours… Read More
Building (and Rebuilding) Trust
Authenticity in the Trust Connection Read More
