Agile Principles Applied to Training: Building in Feedback Cycles
I’ve been leveraging my experience with agile in teams and development and applying it to what I’ve been doing in training. Here’s what it looks like: Review material before class – Executing the...
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Agile Principles Applied to Training: Building in Quality and Continuous...
In my experience, achieving high quality is a key part to being adaptive and nimble. Continuous improvement and responding to the feedback allows you to achieve high quality. Here’s what I’ve applied...
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Agile Principles Applied to Training: Transparency and Information Radiation
One thing I’ve noticed agile projects tend to do is to push relevant information out to people, and be extremely honest about how things are going. Here are my attempts at doing so: Posters Around the...
View ArticleWhy Training Fails
I’m a big believer in letting people try things out. Unfortunately, most training programs don’t let people do this enough. In fact, most of the time, training is seen as some way of “fixing problems”...
View ArticleCome along to XP2009
At this year’s XP2009, I’m going to run the workshop, Climbing the Dreyfus ladder of Agile Practices where we’ll look at learning models (focusing on one in particular) and how to use them to help as a...
View ArticleThree Days of Clojure Joy
A couple of weeks ago, I sat in a training class run by Stuart Halloway, CEO of Relevance and who ThoughtWorks happened to bring across from the US to give us the low down of Clojure. We covered a lot...
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Tech Lead – Circles of Responsibility
One of my projects this year is a training program for developing Tech Leads. In preparation for the course, I developed this diagram below to explain what areas we focus on and found the model...
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Holding a Tech Lead course in Sydney
With a one-time only opportunity this year, I am running a course for Architects and Tech Leads on 22-23 October at the ThoughtWorks Sydney offices. After interviewing over 35 Tech Leads for the...
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