Head of the KyuLaurent Bossavit's learning notesPlease influence the Agile community- June 30, 2007 How By nominating someone for the Gordon Pask award. You can get the official description of the award from Brian's blog; I'll tell you what it means to me. I was awarded the Gordon Pask last year, at the Agile 2006 conference. It was a weird moment. I was stressed out and tired from presenting too many things. I made a little speech. I started by thanking the people who had welcomed me, so to speak, into the Agile community back in 2002 at the XP conference in Sardinia. Many were in the.http://www.bossavit.com/pivot/pivot/entry.php?id=298 One of the best ways to invent the future...- June 29, 2007 ...is to attend a conference. Here is one that just appeared on my radar - and for reasons that will become clear shortly, I'm mightily tempted not just to attend, but to present something. The best conferences are just that: invitations to shape the future. Back in 2002 when I attended the XP conference in Sardinia, it felt so invigorating, exciting, mind-expanding it felt to be surrounded by people who had a vision of how the world - or some little part of it - could be made a righter...http://www.bossavit.com/pivot/pivot/entry.php?id=297 "Just a mistake"- June 5, 2007 Two follow-up observations on my previous post about "four types of process errors". One is to stress again the difference between (what I think are) the relevant attitudes toward process, as per my previous post, and how much formality accompanies process. The two dimensions are quite orthogonal. If you are very formal, you will define in painstaking detail the Inputs, Transformations, Outputs, Resources and so on, that constitute your process. If you are informal, you'll just say things...http://www.bossavit.com/pivot/pivot/entry.php?id=296 Four types of process errors- June 4, 2007 Part of the Agile Manifesto reads: "...we have come to value Individuals and interactions over processes and tools". This has often been paraphrased as "people over process", a phrase which has generated a lot of debate, not all of it very productive. One reason for that is that everyone knows the meaning of the word "people", but not everyone - far from it - understands the meaning of the word "process". I'm still not sure I do (especially after looking at the various pages of that name on..http://www.bossavit.com/pivot/pivot/entry.php?id=295 |