Be willing to start again to make room for what will come next
Well, this is the third time this week I’ve recreated my website and started rebuilding content. If you enjoyed my post last week on the 5 Things to Do to Create Time at Work, that’s good. Because if...
View ArticleWhat should I do when someone breaks a promise?
A friend asked this question today. And it comes up at software conferences a lot, in the hallways, over a meal, or in Open Space or Lean Coffee. It’s a current flowing under all our technical and...
View ArticleI will if you will, but you won’t if I don’t
Trust. I’ve been to a lot of conferences recently. They were mostly Agile conferences, and the participants are people who are choosing to, or have been told to, use Agile approaches in developing...
View ArticleOne great idea is better than lots of little ideas
We hang on to little ideas because we believe ideas are scarce. Well, if you need to bring in a facilitator and have people sit in a room for hours going through a facilitated step-by-step process to...
View ArticleTo become fluent in the Core Protocols, use them to learn something new
The Core Protocols and Commitments are the language of great communication on a team. And just as you experience learning any language, it can feel a bit awkward at first. The words don’t seem to roll...
View ArticleLooking back – way back – to look forward in 2013
I’ve been researching my family history over the holidays. Years ago my aunt found a bundle of letters my great great grandfather wrote to his love, who, after two years of reading his undeniably...
View ArticleFloyd Marinescu, CEO of InfoQ, interviews me on the Core Protocols
I’ve been holding this one until after the holidays, so all the juicy goodness is nice and fresh for you as you go back to your teams in 2013. This is an interview I did with Floyd Marinescu, CEO and...
View ArticleThe Next Big Thing
Yes, there will be one. No, it won’t be what we think it will be. It will happen in an overlooked corner where people we’ve never met are doing things we never thought of. We’ll ignore them for a...
View ArticleCreating Time BootCamp April 21-26 2013 in Minneapolis, MN!
Yes, we are offering a public Creating Time BootCamp! Because we usually offer only in-house camps, the public ones don’t happen very often, so we’re looking forward to a full camp for what might be...
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Results and how you get there are two different things: Personal Alignment...
A friend recently asked me about the difference between results and to-do lists. She was asking in the context of evidence in the protocol Personal Alignment in the Core Protocols. Here’s the full text...
View ArticleWhen coaching, don’t force people to talk
I help smart people create time. Usually I do that by learning about them, their preferences, vision for the future, influences, fears and strengths. I like to see them in action, in the environment...
View ArticleListen…
For those of us living in places where winter puts the land to sleep between November and March, this is a dark and quiet time. For me, the sun comes up at 8 and sets at 4. When the sun shines, it sits...
View ArticleCreating Time At Work Self-Study Course Launches on Feb 11 2013! Register today!
Yes, the launch of the first online course by Simple Rules And Tools is just 2 weeks away. Register here. I hosted a call Monday January 28, 2013 to share what the course is about, why you’d want to...
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Why I’m a GeekGirlCon13 Gold Sponsor
I’m a Geek Girl Con 13 Gold Sponsor I just signed up to be a Gold sponsor of GeekGirlCon, a celebration of the female geek, because: I remember watching the moon landing on the black and white TV. It...
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Work would be so much easier if it weren’t for other people: Interpersonal...
I like working alone. That’s a surprise to people who know me as an evangelist for the Core Protocols, and for Creating Time BootCamp. They think I’ll be dogmatic about using pair programming,...
View ArticleTeam Building a different way: Creating Time BootCamp
Self-organized teams, the kind Scrum and Agile projects rely on, are a very different kind of team than most workplaces support. A self-organized team needs to anticipate and fix its own problems; to...
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Team and springtime: Frozen ain’t necessarily frozen
Teams are dynamical places to be. But, while they’ve got a kind of internal structure they are subject to changes in the environment they live in and respond to those changes in unpredictable ways. One...
View ArticleThe power of asking for help on a diverse team in India
We once held Creating Time BootCamp with a team in India. The team worked for a remarkable non-profit organization that provides services to the people in the communities (what Westerners call slums)...
View ArticleVideo: What would I learn at Creating Time BootCamp?
Paul and I talk about what surprised us when we went to BootCamp for the first time. Hint: everything!The post Video: What would I learn at Creating Time BootCamp? appeared first on Simple Rules And...
View ArticleCreating Time Tip Of The Day: Don’t explain, just ask
Have you ever had someone sidle up to you and apologetically set the long-winded context for the ask they’re about to make of you? It might sound like this: “I know this is a bad time and you’re...
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