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Comment on Impressions of Innovation Games by Roger

Roger — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:45:59 +0000

Hi Gerry,

Congrats on the Olympic Hockey gold. Exciting game, eh?

The class provided these additional benefits over the book:

- a chance to hear about the games from Luke Hohmann and try some out with a room full of enthusiasts
- some experience reports from Luke and others
- examples of game “cocktails”, mixtures to refine data to some goal
- exposure to some game variations
- a chance to try out the online versions
- a boatload of nuance and facilitation tips

It was a lot of fun and complementary to the book. The class presentation pretty much assumes that you read the book. Definitley take it if you get a chance.

Comment on Impressions of Innovation Games by Gerry Kirk

Gerry Kirk — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:33:13 +0000

Roger, I too am a fan of Innovation Games. I tried them with great results with a small faith sharing group in one instance.

http://www.gerrykirk.net/can-agile-transform-faith-communities/

What did the class give you that you can’t get from the book, which I own?

Comment on Certified Scrum Trainer by Roger

Roger — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:01:02 +0000

Here is the official description. http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/certified_scrum_trainer

Comment on Certified Scrum Trainer by reliable india

reliable india — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:04:10 +0000

my conggratulations that you are a Certified Scrum Trainer®.but can you explained more detailed what is it?

Comment on Ambient Awareness by Roger

Roger — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:11:30 +0000

Daryl,

Sorry to take so long to approve your comment. I am just completing a 3000 mile move. My new office is finally functional.

Your point is a good one. When I work at home, I can tweet when I want to and choose to read the stream when I want to. But I can also ignore the stream when I want to. I suppose the real world analogy is the guy who wears headphones in the team room.

For me, I actually have quite a bit of collaboration going on via IM, email and Skype. Twitter helps fill in the gaps between more intentional exchanges. If I need a break, I can just tune out. Also, the osmotic input requires that I read. Maybe if I had a text to speech program that can murmur in the background using different voices for different tweeters…

Comment on Ambient Awareness by Darryl Kulak

Darryl Kulak — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:12:53 +0000

Roger,

I think Twitter could be an interesting substitute for osmotic chatter within a team room. But one aspect (I’m sure there are several) that Twitter is missing is that, in a team room, no one can hide away and do their work separately, they are always brought back into the communication sphere, kind of willingly or unwillingly. I could see, with Twitter, that someone could more easily hide off by themselves and be able to get work done independently, missing the benefits of the high-bandwidth communication. Just a thought. I think I’d still be willing to try Twitter or Yammer as a substitute if I was stuck with a distributed team.