Personal Development

I was attracted to the Agile movement through my interest not only in software but in conflict and collaboration.  I’ve had many fascinating experiences and met lots of smart, eccentric, warm, [...]

When I refer to integrity, I have something very simple and very specific in mind. Integrity, as I will use the term, requires three steps: (1) discerning what is right and what is wrong; (2) [...]

WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. – David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Life presents us with a [...]

When I was a child, my family tended to move house every few years.  My mother hated hot, dry weather and loved the rainy days common in a coastal climate.  My father hated dark, dreary days and [...]

When people waste my time, I can get really ticked off. I tell them: “Time is the only thing I can’t get more of. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.” I can get more money (though wasting that leaves me [...]

As I think back at the end of the year, I realize how much I have learned this year and how my perspective has changed or been enriched by my reading, training, and experiences this year.  Some [...]

My generation was probably the first to be cautioned in high school that we needed to be lifelong learners.  At the time, the term was new, and I don’t know if it is in common parlance anymore, [...]

The other night I found myself talking with a couple of colleagues about a topic that catches my attention a lot lately: how we deal with failure. We were gathered around a tiny table at a local [...]

It’s part of the human perceptual framework that we make assumptions.  There’s a lot of data coming in, and we can’t catalog and analyze each piece without losing our minds or seeming to impact [...]

Double-loop learning is built into many agile processes, most notably Scrum, and is also the objective of the lessons learned process prescribed by the Project Management Institute Project [...]