I will be at Agile 2014 next week. So will about 1800 other people. I bet some of you are looking for new jobs. Would you like an Open Jam session about looking for a new job? I can conduct a timeboxed, up to one-hour session about Manage Your Job Search. If you only want […]
I saw this post yesterday, A Simple Suggestion to Help Phase Out All-Male Panels at Tech Conferences. And, I wondered what I would do, if I was male. Let me provide a little more context. I had a conference call with some of the Prag editors just a couple of weeks ago. The Prags publish
Are you interested in how to manage agile projects? Thinking of transitioning to agile? Available on March 7, 2013? I am leading an experiential one-day tutorial in conjunction with AgileIndy to introduce the ideas of agile project management to people who are interested in agile project management in Indianapolis on March 7, 2013. The tutorial
Matthias Bohlen interviewed me as part of the preparation for the OOP conference. We spoke on a wide range of topics, not just my talk which is “Six Behaviors to Consider When Hiring for an Agile Team.” We spoke briefly about program management, which is why I’m leading my influence tutorial. Hear the entire podcast
When I lead public workshops, I ask people what their experience with with agile is. In the past, if I asked people if they were experienced with agile, their answers were reliable. Now, not so much. People think if they can spell agile, they are agile. If they sometimes use timeboxes, they are agile. If
Shane Hastie and I have been working across timezones in preparation for a workshop: Working Effectively With Distributed Agile Teams. I’m keynoting at SDC in a couple of weeks, and am looking forward to being back in Wellington and Sydney. First, Shane and I built a backlog in Google docs, so we could both see
I did decide to talk about how we got started on 100% utilization and what to do about it. I didn’t say everything I wanted to say, so here is what I wish I’d said: How 100% Utilization Got Started Back in the early days of computing, machines were orders of magnitude more expensive than
I had a great time in Japan last week with Esther. On the flight home, we started plotting our next book! @kaztak_en, Thank you for your invitation to see your team. It looks and sounds as if you are on your agile way. @kdmsnr, Thank you for your gracious hosting on Tuesday. You were even
I’m leading several sessions at SD Best Practices, Sept 11-14, 2006. Here’s the list: Monday, Sept 11: Coaching Your Peers and Staff to Excellence (half-day experiential) Wednesday, Sept 13: Predicting Project Completion Wednesday, Sept 13: Develop Your Interviewing Skills Thursday, Sept 15: Managing the Project Portfolio Thursday, Sept 14: Successful Software Management: 15 Lessons
I’m very pleased to be speaking at another Kennedy Audio Conference. See information at Building a Hiring Strategy.You’ve noticed that I’ve been blogging about some of the hiring strategies. Well, there are 12 strategies that I’ve noticed, and I won’t blog about the rest until after the audio conference. I do hope you join me.