Last week came across the new change of scrum Guide (2013 update). I personally like them, few ones I incorporated them long time ago to my way of work, but it was good that the scrum guide reinforce them. Other points very […]
What motivates you? After few years as a team leader/manager/scrum master/agile coach, there is always a simple question that comes to me every time I start to work with a new team: “how to motivate them?” Unfortunately, a lot of […]
What I will try to do today is explain how to screw-up a new and very promising job (at least, it was my first impression). If you really do what I did, there is a big probability that you will […]
Hello, Two or three weeks ago, I had some special situations and I asked myself “what kind of listener am I?” In the last 5 years, I have read a few books/articles about the level of “listening” we need depending […]
Hello, A few months ago I read “Positive Intelligence: why only 20% of teams and individuals archive their true potential” by Shirzad Chamine. It really impacted me in the way to see my life, and I decided to put it into practice […]
Hello, Today, I was in my morning reading task, and I found a very interesting interview video to Slavko Martinov. The most interesting for me, it was the approach the interviewer took (building models with LEGO). If you love LEGO serious play […]
Hello, After reading a few books and internet articles, I noticed that I was not very good as a storytelling person, so I decided to improve myself. I really believe that as an Agile coach/scrum master, we need to have this storytelling […]
Hello everyone, I want to share with you my experience with an open space format meeting. In the last 2 years I participated in few events where open space format was part of it. I really like the format and the interaction. […]
Hello All, In my last post about this coach camp, I want to share one part of our closing activity. After we spent almost 2 days together, we enjoy one great closing circle: Thanks, Omar If you liked this, please […]
Hello All, More videos, now, one overview of the great people in this fantastic agile coach camp event. Enjoy them… Thanks, Omar If you liked this, please subscribe you to my blog updates and get updates by email (I write […]
Hello all, After I participated in my first agile coach camp, I am able to said that I never, but never learn the amount of things I learned this weekend in a small time frame. It is a fantastic un-conference […]
Hello all, Josh Crandall created an interesting video about creativity and LEGO Serious Play. I really like it. Enjoy it!!! Thanks, Omar
Hello all, So happy I have all ready to participate in this fantastic event. Unfortunately I could not participate the last year. I am so exited to exchange experiences with other agile coaches/sm/agile practitioners. Agile Coach Camp Canada, now in […]
Hello all, I am so exited with my LEGO SERIOUS PLAY facilitator training and I decided to do 2 posts. One with one introduction to the method and a second one with my experience in the training. Let’s do the […]
Hello Everyone, With one of my colleges, we share a dream. We are agile lovers with a common dream, we want to share important knowledge with Montreal’s agile community. We here in Montreal strongly believe that one of the best […]
Hello, Today I will write down one issue I got a few sprints ago and I would like to share it with you. After few discussions with few colleagues, I think that it could be useful for others. A little bit of context; after […]
Hello, Some weeks ago, we run one full ship-it day at our company. Very good projects at the end of the 24hs of ship-it day. I was able to present one very simple open source project to help the company with […]
Hello, Today one big validation from one of our teams: how important is saying THANK YOU. Yes, as a coach and scrum master, it is one of the most important things I like to do; however, teams sometime do not […]
Hello, Today I want to share how agile teams put in practice one of the most important agile concepts…”work hard and get fun at work”: Harlem shake in action. Check it and don’t be shy, share your pictures and videos. […]
Hello all, Today I want to share some thinking. Time to time, when I talk with colleges (normally not agile colleges) I listen things like: “Agile is not working at all” or “We tried agile in my company and it […]
I am so happy that I could present this game in Agile Games 2013 conference. It was part of one open space session, I was so exited to do it, but I had to improvise a little bit with the […]