Tag: community

15 January 2020 / Agile & Scrum

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...

10 June 2013 / Less is More

Software craftsmanship vNext

Last week, on 30 and 31 May, I attended the I T.A.K.E. unconference in Bucharest, Romania. I was asked to facilitate a workshop there and chose to combine two of my personal favorite coderetreat sessions into one even more challenging session: TDD as if the baby meant it. I will write about this session and some of the feedback I got on this soon, so...

27 May 2013 / Engaging Workshops & Meetings

Budget Games Kortrijk Ready, Set, Go…

In April we were happy to announce that we were supporting the City of Kortrijk to organize their own version of the Innovation Games ® – Budget Games and in the mean time lots of work has been done by City council members to prepare for this European scoop. If you do not know anything about Budget Games I would invite you to read our...

10 April 2013 / Engaging Workshops & Meetings

Innovation Games ® – Budget Games is coming to Belgium, Kortrijk!

Some of you might be familiar with the concept of "Budget Games", from its success in San Jose. Some of you might not be, and in that case I would recommend checking out the video below in order to get some context about the subject at hand. [youtube=http://youtu.be/NRYFQzvGkAM] Motivation As an Innovation Games ® and Gamestorming fanatic, I have been quite intrigued by Luke Hohmann's quest...

20 October 2012 / Less is More

Testing Retreat – Thinking as a Tool

My first Testing Retreat with Co-Learning. Since I follow most of the Co-Learning retreats and also facilitate one I was quite curious. Schedule It appears our hosts Chandra and Elena did their homework well. Jurgen was co-facilitator. They prepared a game of throwing dice. You might be wondering right now, just like I did, how throwing dice can bring knowledge transfer about testing... The rather large group of participants was divided...

11 October 2012 / Leadership & Management

How to grow performing teams?

During our most recent "Leadership Retreat" we explored the difficulties to grow performing teams, teams where people gell with each other and achieve unseen results. We had 2 teams that competed in a simulation that started from a group of people that have to work together but do not know each other at all, towards the final goal of a true performing team. They iterated...