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Musings from Christopher

Over at BrainBasedBusiness.com Dr. Ellen Weber posts about how Secondary Schools Stunt 3 Skills Business Needs. Those three critical skills? Problem solving, decision making, and creative thinking. It’s worth your read. Here’s the comment I left there: Thanks for your … Continue reading

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As the next session of Global Educators Academy approaches Linda asks: I’ve thought many times of attending your workshop. Would you tell me how attendees use the material when they teach. Do you require a total replication of your ideas, … Continue reading

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The afternoon of 3 October found me in the Queen Elizabeth II Conference center near Trafalgar Square in London keynoting Agile Business Conference 2007. We'd been planning this Responsibility Redefined mission for many months. As you may know, the "agile" … Continue reading

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Chris Matts tells me his recent InfoQ article "Real Options" Underlie Agile Practices is already translated into Chinese. And you can enjoy his Agile Toolkit Podcast interview on Real Options and their relation to agile practices.  What is Real Options? … Continue reading

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I was home last week. Thank goodness… Catching up, resting a bit, spending some time with my family, getting ready to teach Knowledge Team Leadership in Boulder this week, and still pursuing the vision. While here I got to spend … Continue reading

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Many thanks to brainbasedbusiness.com for aggregating this list of blogs on personal development. Wonder if we should be on the list! Share the knowledge Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Subscribe to the comments on this post

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As promised, I am posting my slides from my rollicking session at Agile2007 last week where I taught the Responsibility Process™ to an auditorium full of wild and crazy developers and project leaders. It was a good time. Demonstrating Responsibility: … Continue reading

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As promised, here is the pdf of our slides from Michael England’s and my discovery session think tank at Agile 2007 last week in Washington DC. The Thursday afternoon session was titled Agile Ghettos or Thriving Communities: Are Agile Principles … Continue reading

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I’m home from Washington DC and off again to San Francisco. I completed Missions 28, 29, & 30 for 2007 while in Washington DC, and will complete Mission 31 in San Francisco this week. I decided this year to begin … Continue reading

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Today is day three of Agile2007 in Washington DC. For engineers, project managers, and developers there are lots of interesting sessions about engineering and development things. I'm interested in the 80% of engineering that isn't engineering but  might instead be … Continue reading

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