Let’s start by having a share understanding about the meaning of the word perception. Here is a definition I found: Perception: the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses In my experience, perceptions could help us greatly with building awareness about the intrinsic dynamics of a given ecosystem. That’s why…
Personal Stories: The Roots of Empathy in action Yesterday once again, I’ve used the “Personal Stories“ retrospective exercise that I’ve shared in my workbook “Forming Agile Teams”, to help another team that I’m currently coaching (composed by 6 infrastructure specialists), with building the roots to empathize with each other. How the activity goes? If you…
Breaking patterns 2 enable change: Wall Estimating Planning In my previous article Breaking patterns 2 enable change: Give everyone a voice, I exposed my views about breaking patterns by helping participants to voice their concerns and to propose potential solutions to them, as an alternative way to enable change. In today’s article, I’ll focus on what was done to…
Guest Blogging at ScrumExpert & Methods and Tools Franco Martinig editor and responsible of the digital Magazines Methods & Tools and ScrumExpert invited me last year, to share my experiences about Agility, specially with Scrum projects with his audience. Here are the articles that I’ve written there: Techniques for Improving Sprint Retrospectives – Part 1 Techniques for Improving Sprint…
Breaking patterns 2 enable change: Give everyone a voice In my previous article Making things visible 2 enable change, I exposed my views about helping others with seeing things first, in order to enable change to happen in an evolving and iterative way. In today’s article, I’ll focus on breaking patterns, as an alternative way to enable change,…
Make things visible 2 enable change Let’s be honest here, the first time I saw the power of Making Things Visible in action and acknowledge it consciously, was by the end of 2013. Which means that I spent around ten (10) years of my professional career, not knowing that powerful way of empowering others to take action and enable them…
Keep acting Keep trying I’ve started 2017 in a new company, a new professional challenge in a particular context, rarely similar to what I used to be in, back then in 2007 when I was working and living in Caracas, Venezuela. A volatile and uncertain context I decided to join this company, believed or not unconsciously attracted by…
In my previous post “the Inner team factor to reach greatness“, I have shared some thoughts about the outcome of a retrospective with one of my teams, who listed the “key elements which have allowed them reach a high level of maturity, ownership, calmness and responsibility“. Like I said back then, I was and I’m still surprised about the attitude and the quality of the majority of the…
A couple of weeks ago, I facilitated a sprint retrospective with a mature Agile Scrum team, composed by three experienced developers and a its Product Owner. Like we used to doing at the end of every single two week sprint, we met for an hour or more to inspect the sprint and adapt in consequence. But what…
In the previous article of the #Tips4Leaders series, I’ve presented you with the 3 top things to consider when facilitating. In today’s issue, I’m going to walk you through the steps I follow to keep me focused and get the best out the limited amount of time that I’ve in a day. That’s right, we are talking about time management here.…