Last night we held a free 2 hour workshop led by David Parker, executive director of the OpenAgile Institute, in which he explained the essence of OpenAgile, one of the newer agile methodologies. I’ll try to summarize what I took away from the evening.
OpenAgile is an open source methodology, meaning that anyone can participate in the process of creating and evolving it. This itself strikes me as a particularly “agile” way of building a methodology, one that embraces the very notion of continuous improvement based on the actual experiences of the people using it.
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We are a bit enamored of swag over here at Agile Learning Labs. Witness our latest effort, this adorable 3″ Scrum Master button you can wear on your conference tee or use to decorate your 
As a writer and editor, I’m acutely aware of the importance of language and metaphor in framing our experience. It has long been my opinion that our business cultures–and that includes software–have been profoundly affected (dare I say, infected?) by sports and combat metaphorage. We have teams, team players and coaches. We keep score and touch base. We have strategies, tactics and positions, and we can “win” things like market share.
Agile Learning Labs is partnering with Tobias Mayer to put on a brand new series of workshops aimed at trainers, coaches and advanced practitioners of Agile. We’re calling it Creative Edge: Training & Coaching for Coaches & Trainers. Catchy, eh? The 
Chris and Jeff will be leading another weekend 