Off topic Mongolian adventures

by admin on November 30, 2009

For no par­tic­u­lar rea­son I thought I would add a men­tion for next sum­mers adven­ture.    I will be dri­ving a fully kit­ted out Ambu­lance from this sunny Isle (OK maybe not so sunny today) from Lon­don to Ulaan­baatar in Mon­go­lia along a rea­son­ably con­vo­luted route, you can see the gen­eral details here.

It’s going to be a most excel­lent adven­ture how­ever more impor­tantly I will be donat­ing the Ambu­lance to char­ity at the end of my jour­ney and will also be rais­ing funds for Macmil­lan can­cer sup­port along the way.  If you would like to help out with fund rais­ing then I know a lot of peo­ple will be extremely grate­ful, not least me!  There are two ways you can help now, either by donat­ing to Go Help who are help­ing me get to Mon­go­lia or by donat­ing to Macmil­lan if that’s more your thing.

I’ll be blog­ging along the way to keep every­one up-to-date with my progress, hope­fully some agile & lean thoughts too not just ‘saw another yurt’…

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Welfare Scrum

by admin on November 26, 2009

What a ref­eresh­ing change to see some­one giv­ing a lit­tle back rather than doing two days train­ing and then run­ning off and pur­port­ing to know it all…

Tobias Mayer has been run­ning Wel­fare Scrum for a while now and it should get more atten­tion.   He’s quite rightly not offer­ing free courses (we appre­ci­ate free things far less than those we pay for) but he is offer­ing courses at a sub­stan­tially lower rate than many of the nor­mal train­ing com­pa­nies.  For those of you who are cur­rently out of work either by choice or oth­er­wise and are think­ing about the CSM its def­i­nitely worth a look.

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Off to Lean & Kanban exchange @ Skills Matter

November 26, 2009

I’m look­ing for­ward to catch­ing up on the lat­est thoughts of some of my favourite lean thinkers next Tues­day at the Lean & Kan­ban exchange hosted by Skills Mat­ter.
Lots of great speak­ers and no doubt lots of hot debate based on the expe­ri­ences of some of the lead­ing thinkers and doers in the field.

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Our new home

August 3, 2009

This is the new home of my blog for all things Agile, self hosted for no other rea­son that because I felt like it and wanted to start play­ing with the excel­lent The­sis theme from DIY Themes
I’ll admit its look­ing a lit­tle sparse at the moment, it’s been a busy month.  I have launched two […]

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David Joyce talks about Kanban at the BBC

June 16, 2009

On the advice of Mar­tine Devos I am going to go and lis­ten to the BBC’s David Joyce talk about their use of Kan­ban next Thurs­day evening.  You can reg­is­ter at Skills­mat­ter if interested.

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Conflict and communication within Agile teams

June 13, 2009

An excel­lent arti­cle by Lyssa Adkins dis­cusses learn­ing to live with and accept con­flict within Agile teams.
In Unsolv­able Con­flict on Agile Teams Lyssa explains why it is wise to accept con­flict as a nat­ural and nor­mal facet of a close and grow­ing rela­tion­ship by con­trast­ing that of an Agile team with that of a marriage […]

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Welcome to Agile Memes

June 13, 2009

Hi, wel­come to the Agile Memes blog.
For some­what ridicu­lous rea­sons that I wont bore you with, I have been forced to take down my pre­vi­ous blog in its entirety.
So it’s back to the white­board, out with those post it notes (or not, but we’ll come on to that later) and a lit­tle ret­ro­spec­tive, a touch of […]

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