I just got accepted to the Agile Coach Camp, to be held in Ann Arbor, MI, USA from May 30, 2008 to June 1, 2008. It was pretty easy. I just had to answer 3 questions. Here are my answers.
This event is an open space, meaning that the topics are not announced ahead of time and no one has to prepare presentations. We will decide the topics and discuss to our heart’s content once we get there. I have attended a couple of open spaces held by the Scrum Alliance and I enjoyed them for the most part. I enjoy a good presentation once in a while, too. But this is one is mostly about networking so I am looking forward to it. I have met a few other coaches at Scrum Gatherings and through my work on the Certified Scrum Coach project. I am looking forward to meeting people from outside that community.
If you are an agile coach and have this weekend free, take a look and see if it would be worth the trip. There is no attendance fee, which suits my budget just right. Registration is limited to 100. It looks like there are plenty of slots still open.
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This has nothing to do with agile software development other than being an example of how interesting things can happen unintentionally. The image at the top of this page is my Emergent Buddha. I took the original picture in the early winter of 2006 while walking my dog in the back field. It was a fern leaf, heavily frosted in the cold New Hampshire morning. Some months later I cropped it down to make a banner for my website. It was too short for the space I had in mind, so I made it wider by flipping a copy horizontally and prepending it to itself. That resulted in the bilaterally symmetrical pattern. At the bottom, in the middle, a small Buddha appeared. He sits there still.
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There are countless web sites and blogs that discuss agile development. While we have a lot of information on agile engineering practices and agile management techniques, I am going to try to take this to a meta level and talk about coaching. I will probably wander into some technical topics from time to time because those things interest me as well. But my intention is to share my thoughts on the coaching role as I see it and hope that others will comment and share experiences at the same level. I know that there are some great books out there and some good sites and discussion groups. I don’t know about you but I have trouble keeping up. So why would anyone read this one? Well, I get value just from writing down my ideas, firming up those wispy thoughts into words and paragraphs. Maybe someone will find these thoughts in the ocean of blogs and leave me a comment from time to time. We learn from the observations of others, whether we agree with them or not.
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