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Bees, Butterflies and Ultralight Backpacking: Thoughts on Creating Open Space for the Orlando Scrum Gathering

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We met Ainsley Nies for corned beef hash and crab cakes at Peter’s in Millbrae this morning. It was our second planning session for the Orlando Scrum Gathering in March, where Chris and Ainsley have been invited to host an Open Space for 300 agile souls, based on the strength of their performance as organizers and facilitators of last year's Agile Open California. I'm helping–well, mostly I'm sitting at Ainsley's feet in rapt attention, soaking up all I can about Open Space Technology, which I find fascinating.
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Come see Chris at SD West! Register by Friday for a $100 discount.

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At this year's SD West conference in Santa Clara (March 9-13), Chris will be leading one of his more popular interactive sessions, Why Do Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? The answers are different every time we do this particular workshop, which involves the structured brainstorming method we've come to refer to as "Group Wisdom Without Groupthink." You  can check out the results from the same session at Dr. Dobbs' Architecture & Design World conference here.

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What Makes Agile Projects Succeed? – Agile Open California

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Agile Open California LogoI hosted the ever-popular ‘What makes agile projects succeed?’ session at Agile Open California this year. As was the case last year, turnout was strong and the lessons learned from many teams were shared in a short period of time. In under 90 minutes the group generated and ranked a list of nearly 40 factors that had been key to the success of agile projects that they had been involved with. We used the Group Wisdom Without Groupthink technique to accomplish this feat. The list below presents, in order, what the assembled group considered to be the most important ingredients to the success of the agile projects.

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Not a Bad Morning

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I woke up this morning with a 30th-story view of the Charles River. I finished up my latest article for InfoQ. Off I walked to get checked in for SD Best Practices, where I’ll be doing workshops on active listening and giving feedback. I reconnected with friends I made in Chicago, at Dr. Dobbs Architecture and Design World. Then there was just enough time to reconnect with Joel Spolsky, over a cup of coffee at Espresso Royal, before we had to run back to the conference so that he could deliver the lunch keynote. His presentation got plenty of hearty laughs, while making some serious points about how to make people love your software.

Life is good!

Cheers,

Chris

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What Makes Distributed Agile Teams Succeed – At Agile2008

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Greetings from Agile2008 in Toronto! To say that I have been overwhelmed by the conference would be an understatement. With 1600+ agile folks here, I am constantly running into old friends, people that I met at previous conferences, and my agile heros. The sheer volume of knowledge and expertise that is being shared is beyond my ability to describe. Wow!

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