Category Archives: coaching

5 Rules of Coaching

Posted on June 11, 2021 by Liz

These rules have nothing to do with any methodology (except maybe complexity thinking, because human.) I have found it useful to bear these in mind while I coach. I’ve passed them on in various forms to people who are learning … Continue reading →

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The Dream Team Nightmare: a Review

Posted on November 30, 2013 by Liz

I remember Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone very well. They were the duo who published the “Choose your own adventure” books in my childhood; games which took you from one scene to another, battling monsters, solving puzzles and collecting items … Continue reading →

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Upcoming engagements

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Liz

There are a few exciting speaking and training engagements coming up, many of them UK based! First off, two tutorials: I’m running my first Deliberate Discovery, Cynefin and Real Options tutorial at Skills Matter on 29th May. These three ways … Continue reading →

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Scrum and Kanban: both the same, only different

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Liz

When I started coaching Agile methodologies, I didn’t know how much I didn’t know. I had come from Thoughtworks, a company whose tools and processes are mostly driven by Extreme Programming, aka XP. In that respect, most of what I … Continue reading →

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Done with Chickens and Pigs

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Liz

If you’re not familiar with the concept of Chickens and Pigs, it’s based on an old joke in which a chicken and a pig set up a restaurant. The chicken wants to call it “Ham’n’Eggs”. The pig says, “No thanks. … Continue reading →

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Gaming Culture with the Dreyfus Model

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Liz

A few people here at the Lean Software & Systems Conference have asked me to write more about using the Dreyfus Model to game culture. I’ve already written quite a bit about the Dreyfus Model – how to use it … Continue reading →

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Be nice to your PMs

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Liz

After my talk at QCon London, some of the feedback I got was that I was really, really mean to PMs. In fairness, I was also mean to Tech Leads, architects and other managers, both in and out of software, … Continue reading →

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Agile Training – a Recipe for Failure

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Liz

Some while back, I was invited to a meeting with two people who worked within that area called “Human Resources”. To be fair to the individuals concerned, neither of them ever referred to people as “resources”, and indeed both of them showed an … Continue reading →

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The Gordon Pask Award

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Liz

The Pask Committee have given the Gordon Pask award to me this year for deepening existing ideas and coming up with some pretty crazy ones of my own. I can only do this because of the fortune I have in … Continue reading →

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The Haiku Workshop at SPA2010

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Liz

I’ll be running the ever-popular Haiku Workshop in the SPA2010 evening diversions on Monday 17th May. My focus for this is limited to 24 people. I’m not sure how attendance is being organised; however, if you want to attend and … Continue reading →

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