What is Lean Coffee? Lean Coffee provides a format for individuals to quickly self-organize a conversation on topics that are most relevant for those who show up. But what does Lean Coffee look …
FYI – Virtual facilitation options beyond #SGMSP18
Taking a break from book writing today, I saw on Twitter there was a conversation in the open space at Scrum Gathering Minneapolis (#SGMSP18). For those of us who have been working remotely …
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Remotely Agile: The Buddy System
Over the last 10 years, while learning how agile methodologies can work in different industries and organizations, I also discovered how I could help distributed teams work as if they were …
Deep skills not soft skills
Something that always makes me wince is the term "soft skills". Dictionary.com gives the following definition of soft: yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, …
Serving Lean Coffee to build a Learning Community
Lean Coffee is a lightweight way for self-organizing a group of people together to share information. Originally started by Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith in 2009 in Seattle, I have found it …
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How to build Facilitation Muscle online.
(Oct 2018 - Unfortunately, Janet Danforth passed away recently and her partner, Robert Moir, has retired. Still, I leave this article online to honor the cutting edge work in 3D remote facilitation.) …
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