July 2010: Supportive Culture: Mentoring: Running Agile Introduction sessions for new starters as part of their on-boarding experience.
June 2010: Supportive Culture/Collaboration/Self-Improvement: Organizing the Calgary event for Agile Tour 2010.
June 2010: Self Improvement: Attended Agile Coach Camp Canada. Awesome learning experience.
June 2010: Supportive Culture: Mentoring: Ran two and a half days of agile training sessions, covering values, principles, stories, scrum, automation, testing, etc.
May 2010: Self Improvement: Reading: Reflecting on the books I've read and remembering their key messages.
May 2010: Collaboration: Leadership: Situational Leadership: Participating: By starting this page I'm now in communication with another member of my organization involved in agile transformation. We're in different departments and had never met previously. Putting yourself out there works.
May 2010: Supportive Culture: Jiggling: Mentioning Agile Skills Project to our leaders. Permission to participate fully in the project. Proposing agile skills as personal growth platform for people empowerment.
May 2010: Self Improvement: Self Awareness: Everyone has their own view of reality that is defined by the language they use.
May 2010: Supportive Culture: Mentoring: Ran a session for one of our teams on agile estimation.
April 2010: Supportive Culture: Mentoring: Facilitated a retrospective for one of our project teams.
April 2010: Technical Excellence: Testing iTrace capabilities in VS 2010 via Habib Heydarian @ Calgary .Net User Group. Being able to repo step by step a test failure from another machine is a nice capability.
April 2010: Self Improvement: Common Pitfalls: When agile is regarded merely as a process it will suffer the same problems as any other software development process.
April 2010: Supportive Culture: How to build a supportive environment/Active Listening/Ask first, conclude later: Engaging with project managers to understand where they and the projects they manage are at.
January 2010: Self Improvement: Self Awareness: People have an amazing capacity for self-delusion and denial when locked into an "I" agenda.