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
As I think about coaching new teams that must come together to build amazing products, I’ve been trolling TED.com for more ideas to use in coaching these teams. Trust must be present for new teams to pose ideas without fear, to doubt their assumptions and mental models, and to collaborate with honest ‘creative abrasion’ (that’s… Read More
World Creativity & Innovation Day 2019
I recently learned that this coming Sunday is World Creativity & Innovation Day. Fabulous! The purpose for World Creativity and Innovation Day was, and still is, to remind and encourage people to use their creativity to make the world a better place and to make their place in the world better, too. Even better, THIS… Read More
What is Creativity
Recently, someone dismissed my recent creativity/innovation workshop as invalid, that I clearly did not understand what creativity was, and the workshop was a bad method of sparking creativity. I was speechless. I offered that perhaps this type of creativity was just different than whatever was needed in her world, for example, in the world of… Read More
Be a Superhero
Sometimes an out-of-body experience (OBE) can be a good thing. Today’s Innovation Inspiration Moment is your chance for an OBE . Today, I challenge you to become a superhero. Imagine yourself as a famous (or not so famous) superhero. What characteristics and superpowers would be most fun, most useful, in your personal or professional life.… Read More
Today’s Innovation Inspiration
The power of innovative thinking, followed by action, created a powerful and lasting change in the world. What innovative action can you take today?
Why Coaching?
Why I’m moving into coaching Read More
The Journey Begins… again
The search for a life abroad Read More
