Today I had the pleasure of attending a visualization workshop with Stuart Young. The focus of the workshop was to learn practical drawing skills to become a better facilitator. We also practiced active listening in the form of drawing, and[…]
I had the distinct pleasure of attending a local meetup group as part of the Agile RTP group called How Agile Killed Managers presented by Katy Sherman last month. Katy did a wonderful job of giving a thought provoking talk[…]
Greetings! I look forward to partnering with you in a co-creative process to inspire your personal and professional potential along your agile journey. My purpose is to coach you through agile practices and principles to help achieve astonishing results. Our[…]
This week I attended the TriAgile 2017 Conference in Raleigh, NC. What an amazing event! I was unable to attend last year, but according to all I spoke with this year was even better. This was the fourth time they[…]
As a follow on to the previous post this week from the Agile Coaching Institute’s Agile Coaching Bootcamp, I also wanted to share some thoughts on coaching agile teams – the second half of the course. These are the ideas[…]
This week I had the amazing opportunity to attend the Agile Coaching Bootcamp in Essex, MA near Boston, hosted by Lyssa Adkins, Katrina Ferguson, and Clive Prout of the Agile Coaching Institute. I had the chance to learn from and[…]
I am about to do my first solo full-day workshop for a client. The workshop is called Leading Agile Teams: An Evolution in Leadership in Culture. This client requested some training for their first-line leaders, mostly in team lead and project manager[…]
I wrote the following in June of 2015 while studying higher education administration. I wanted to provide the original text here, and I plan to revisit this at a later date. Parenthetical proper names reference authors in higher education academia. […]
A few days ago, I got a note from a Scrum Master who is a client of mine. He wanted to know how to recognize team members in an agile environment. Recognizing that with agile we start with the team,[…]
Using scrum as a framework for development work at ARCA has fundamentally changed the way I view team interaction and work in general. My experiences at West Point and in my service as an officer in the Army exposed me[…]
