Archive for July, 2008

Update: Speaking at QCon2008 San Francisco November

This is an update to my earlier blog post about speaking at QCon in San Francisco. We now know the date is Wednesday, November 19. Here’s the line-up. See you in San Francisco in November.

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Q: How can we use the Responsibility Process™ in the Federal Government?

On yesterday’s every-second-Tuesday-of-the-month no-cost Ask Christopher Avery tele-training I answered 8 insightful questions selected from dozens submitted by you the call-in audience. Most questions give me an opportunity to demonstrate how Responsibility Redefined™ actually redefines (i.e., shifts the paradigm of, changes the conversation about, or confronts our mental models of) responsibility. Here’s a fun example:
Q: […]

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Responsible University Students in Mexico

Last Thursday evening I enjoyed a rare opportunity to talk with a group of about 120 students and faculty at Universidad Regiomontana in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The advertised title of my talk was “How to Build a Culture of Agility and Responsibility” but I choose to change my actual presentation to “Who Wants Better […]

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Speaking at QCon 2008, San Francisco, November 19-21

People ask “Christopher, are you still working in agile project management, software development, and IT in general?”
You bet! Just because demand for Responsibility Redefined™ is spreading to other areas (and especially to executive leadership!) does not mean I’ve left the agile community. I just taught a two-workshop in Mexico City called
“Mastering Personal Agility for Executive […]

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“Most important 2 hours of my professional life”

That is what one C-level leader said to me and the entire audience about the preceding two hours. Seriously.
It was during the Q&A time of one of the presentations I made last week in Mexico to a variety of industry and education leaders.
I’ve heard this kind of spontaneous wonderment from top leaders before after introducing […]

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