A community and a practice are not the same, but they are brilliant together
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have worked with Communities of Practice in organisational settings for several years. One recent trend I have seen is the use of the word community when people are talking...
View ArticleMy weekly newsletter: Posts from Awesome Folks (and some love for blogs)
Reading Time: < 1 minute I recently started a newsletter digest of blog posts and articles I like. I started doing it to read more blog posts again; committing to sending something out helps keep me...
View ArticleHello Liverpool, I have a new meetup
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have recently relocated to a new area, and I’m starting another new meetup*. I was born in London and lived there all my life, aside from a few years at art college. We...
View ArticleWhy can’t we all just get along?
Reading Time: 9 minutes I recently gave a new talk at Lean Agile Brighton; I like to do a write-up to go along with the slides for added context, so here it is. I’ve noticed an increasingly worrying...
View ArticleYay, people do blog; here are some great ones to follow
Reading Time: < 1 minute For the last 9 months, I have been collating and sharing blog posts in a weekly newsletter called Posts from Awesome Folks*. I recommend doing it; it helps me keep up to...
View ArticleMeasuring your community of practice
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ok, this title feels like clickbait; it’s such a common question I get asked and will likely entice some people and annoy others. So in this post, I will share some tactics and...
View ArticleWhy have difficult conversations when you can talk about tools instead?
Reading Time: < 1 minute A while back, I created this sticker and was reminded of it this week during a meetup, so I thought I’d share it here. During the meetup I host, Agile in the Ether, last...
View ArticleTeam exercise: Building empathy and understanding with the Capability Comb
Reading Time: 4 minutes ******Updated 26th Jan 2024****** In my recent post, Why Can’t we all get Along, I discussed the value of overlapping roles in multi/inter/transdisciplinary teams and referred...
View ArticleFive Questions to Measure Success
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Miro workshop, created with Jamie Arnold, that takes you from vision to measures, identifying your outcomes along the way. In 2018, while working with Jamie, something I...
View ArticleThe Suitcase retro: closing a phase of work
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week I designed a short retrospective to close a phase of work. The team were handing the work over to an ongoing client team, so it was a perfect time for reflection and a...
View ArticleThe Team Onion book
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Team Onion book is now available for purchase. If you’ve been following the work I’ve been doing over the past seven years on the Team Onion, you’ll see that it’s gone...
View ArticleTeam memory, organisational sharing and serendipity in distributed workplaces
Reading Time: 7 minutes How do we know what’s going on when we’re working in remote or hybrid organisations? How do we get the right information to the right people, find what we need and bump into...
View ArticleTalking about Learning at Agile on the Bench at Agile Cambridge
Reading Time: < 1 minute This week, I have been back at the Agile Cambridge conference with Agile on the Bench with my co-host, Cara Bermingham. Agile on the Bench is a friendly, low-fi, lunchtime,...
View ArticleViews of New Brighton Lighthouse
Reading Time: < 1 minute For a little while, I was encouraging myself out of the house by setting the target of taking regular short videos of the New Brighton lighthouse at the mouth of the Mersey....
View ArticleWhy can’t we all just get along? (again)
Reading Time: < 1 minute Back in November last year I wrote up a talk I gave at Lean Agile Brighton called Why can’t we all just get along? I’ve given the talk at a few more conferences and written...
View ArticleNew website: Communities of Practice work
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have been working with, writing about and speaking on communities of practice for many years now. That content is scattered in various places, like this blog, my company...
View ArticlePeople capabilities as outcomes
Reading Time: 2 minutes The term outcome is a brilliant way of describing the impact and value of doing something. I also like to use outcomes to help describe the capabilities of people and practices...
View ArticleCapability Comb Team Workshop Miro template
Reading Time: < 1 minute In my previous post Team exercise: Building empathy and understanding with the Capability Comb, I introduced an approach to help a team surface their capabilities and...
View ArticleAgile in the Ether IRL 2024, a wonderful community event
Reading Time: 6 minutes I have been running Agile in the Ether for over five years; this year, we had a face-to-face event for the first time. It was wonderful and proves you can make real connections...
View ArticleTeam Taxonomies for digital, data and technology organisations
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have been working with digital, data, and technology organisations for a long time, many of which are in UK government departments. One thing that I have seen people get...
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