Tag: collaboration
An Effective Sprint Review? Do it the Fish!y way!
Choosing how you will walk through your day, having fun with your colleagues and clients, actively listen and participate in collaborations, and ensuring others also have a great day. I have written a short story a while ago about the basics of the Fish! Philosophy for being an outstanding team member. In other blog posts, I covered how this can make your Sprint Retrospective more...
The benefit of a ‘virtual window’
It's 9 o'clock on a Saturday morning. I start my computer and launch the Skype app. I create a video call with two of my buddies and then get breakfast. Suddenly I hear: "Hey Jeremy, you there?". I pause my breakfast, go to my computer and I see Kevin, I wave to him and say "yeah, I'm just finishing breakfast, I'll be there in a...
The zone of harmony: The Axen rose part 3
If you don't know yet what the axen rose is, please first take a quick look at part 1 and part 2 of this blog series. This way you already know the basics that I will elaborate on in this post. So next to the zone of conflict (hawk - capricorn) and the zone of removal (owl - turtle) we have a third zone out of which...
We’re hiring! Office Manager wanted to join our Agile company.
Could Co-Learning be Your Tribe? The wisdom of the group transcends any individual. At Co-Learning, we align our actions with the belief that we need each other in order to do our best work. The Office Manager will be responsible for smooth operations to support a high-energy team of Agile professionals in all the day-to-day essentials of excellence, including: Coordinating locations for events and trainings,...
Different communication styles: The Axen rose – part 2
If you don't know yet what the axen rose is, please first take a quick look at part 1 of this blog series. This way you already know the basics that I will elaborate on in this post. Given the horizontal and vertical zones that were explained in the previous post, we can start identifying the different areas in more detail. Something that was added...
A different view on communication: The Axen rose – part 1
During the lean coffee session last week at the European Testing conference, we were talking about the most important impediment for testers to get their work done. Most of which was the most important soft skill to have. The group agreed that the most basic of soft skills was communication. But we found it hard to really grasp what this actually means. What is communication and...