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Slides from QCon presentation

I’m in San Francisco today at QCon where I gave a talk in the Being Agile track called Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: How to Build Any Team Any Time. Earlier posts about QCon should show up below in the Related Posts section.
I promised attendees that I’d post my slides here, so here they are: […]

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Agile Journal - Effective Agile Testing: Asking the Right Question

Amr Elssamadisy, editor in chief of the Agile Journal, is a friend and colleague. I love his response in the November 2008 issue to the frequent question “How do I get person X to do action Y.” Read it here:

Agile Journal - Effective Agile Testing: Asking the Right Question

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Agile Over the Sea

Strange Attractors
I skipped the Toronto Agile 2008 conference this year in  August. But when the call for proposals was out back in January I heard from Portia Tung that she’d read my article on Personal Agility and wished I would present Responsibility Redefined™ in Toronto. I appreciated that since I’d presented at the 2004-2007 conferences. […]

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Responsibility Redefined Program Manager sought

Are you a senior project, program, or product manager looking for your next challenge to perfect the art of orchestrating reliable delivery of value to the customer?
I’m helping a colleague search for a great hire in the Silicon Valley/East Bay, CA area. I believe the perfect candidate will be

a continuous learner with a variety of […]

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Team Building - How to Bring Down Any Team in 4 Easy Steps Without Even Trying

Team Building Shmeme-building…
The good folks at Agile University yesterday published my team building commentary titled: How to Frustrate, Thwart, and Ultimately Bring Down Any Team in 4 Easy Steps Without Even Trying. Click the AU link above to read it, or read it below, after the video window.
Or, just watch this video…
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How to Frustrate, Thwart, […]

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