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The first session I proposed at the Agile Coach Camp in Germany was on comfort zones; a topic close to my heart as I was in a foreign country, unable to speak the language, talking to a group of people I’d never met before. I may have been slightly outside of my comfort zone. Oh, […]
June 2, 2010
Back in April I proposed a workshop session at the Agile Business Conference (still waiting to hear back but I’m not holding my breath), not letting the fact that I have never presented at a conference before stop me. The reason for this rather rash decision was that one of my goals for the year […]
April 21, 2010
So was Open Volcano 10 a success? Did a new groundbreaking idea emerge during the day? Simply put: yes and no (or at least I didn’t come across one). There was a real energy about the day that seemed to come from not only the calibre of the speakers stranded in the UK but also the very […]
March 25, 2010
I attended the first Rachel Davies’ Agile Coaching Skills course at SkillsMatter and found it full of useful stuff that I can put straight into practice. The course did not seek to explain Agile techniques or methodologies, instead focusing on the people skills an effective coach needs. For me this was a real plus of […]
March 15, 2010
This will be my first book review since I left school in the mid-nineties: I’ve set on a plan of reading one book a month, and to review the book so that I improve not only my writing but also my understanding of the book itself. First up is Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies and Liz […]
February 25, 2010
When does whole-team collaboration become an impediment and not a desirable quality of the team? For me it has been when the team don’t stop the discussion process and get on with writing software. A change to one of the new features emerged towards the end of the Sprint and after some digging the Product […]
February 18, 2010
I’ll be attending AgileCoachCamp Germany at the end of April and had to write a position paper as the entry fee. This is the first time I’ve had to write one but it did make me think about what I expected from the weekend, so I kinda like the idea. Anyway, I’ve put it here […]
February 2, 2010
In October, as a freshly minted CSM, I started at a new client as a developer on a project claiming to follow the Scrum framework. After only a few days I could see cracks in the veneer and offered to run the next retrospective. This led to my continuing as the team’s ScrumMaster, and they’ve […]
January 11, 2010
When I first joined the team it was clear that a couple of developers dominated the conversations. They were both very experienced and knew the subject, much of what they had to say was relevant and the ideas they put forward were good. However, as no one else got a chance to talk the rest […]
January 5, 2010
At a client the meetings have a tendency to wander, a habit the developers try to break but drift back into without realising; so when I came across a chapter on agendas in Jean Tabaka’s Collaboration Explained it offered something of a lifeline. A key point within the chapter is that a good agenda will […]
John McFadyen 
June 24, 2010
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