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Last year I wrote a blog post on how to find a remote job. Even though I warn people that it's a different way of working, I still find folks that either want to try it or they have been working …
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Agile2016 starts one month from now. Here are three things I’m looking forward to: The new Audacious Salon track (especially Monday and Tuesday morning, 7/25-26) A gathering of Agile User Group …
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There is an enormous amount written about distributed teams and I find most of it very frustrating. It's not that the observations or the ideas are bad. The problem lies with the primary tool we have …
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While speaking recently at a conference, I realized two important things about the nature of remote work. First, I choose to work remotely. Second, many of the people who work remotely, particularly …
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In my prior blog post, I mentioned how we formed our group of volunteers for the Global Scrum Gathering in Orlando. Now let me share how we stormed, normed and performed at the gathering! Warning: …
It's been a little over a week since the Global Scrum Gathering in Orlando and our Agile Florida Slack community is still buzzing. The buzz is mostly from our volunteers! The April 2016 Global Scrum …
Over this first half of 2020, most of the world now knows what long-time remote workers have known for years: Remote amplifies. Remote does amplify some obvious things like distance. But until the last few months, only a few realized that distance is a lever, not the outcome of being remote. First, remote amplifies your […]
As people moved to completely online and distributed work in the early part of 2020, interesting patterns in training and collaboration tools emerged. While many trainers have focused on tools and process and the best way to keep teams connected online, it seems we slipped into a control trap for teams. Stand-up Meetings vs […]
In a previous post, I described a process for converting a location-based exercise into an online exercise and walked through an example. Those steps included: Find the key physical steps in the location-based exercise Consider three options to replace the physical steps with virtual steps Choose plan A and plan B for the virtual exercise. […]