The Rise of the Lean Machine Storybook

Move over Steve Jobs! Check out this presentation created by Claudio Perrone (a.k.a. Agile Sensei). He is an independent consultant based in Dublin, Ireland, committed to help organizations achieve phenomenal improvements — fast. He is well known for his experience and focus on transformational leadership, software architecture, and Lean-Agile software development practices such as Scrum, Read More …

3 ways the brain creates meaning

Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas? [iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/wPFA8n7goio” align=”center” mode=”normal” autoplay=”no” maxwidth=”500″ grow=”yes”] Tom Wujec is a Fellow at Autodesk, Read More …

Insight on Performance

This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace. www.theRSA.org. Great insight on motivation and well worth the 10 minutes. Dan Pink’s book: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Related Posts: Can you be talented Read More …

18 minutes with an agile mind: Clifford Stoll on TED

Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he’s not going to. Which is fine, because it would be criminal to confine a man with interests as multifarious as Stoll’s to give a talk on any one topic. Instead, he simply Read More …

Kanban, A Great Organizational Idea

I have been using Scrum and Kanban for a while now and have been finding them very useful. In fact, I like it so much that I am even practicing it on a personal level. Where I picked up the idea of Personal Kanban is from Jim Benson, an Expert in Personal Kanban. He states Read More …