Journey of a coach – theory & practice (Part II)
In an earlier article “Journey of a coach – theory & practice (Part I), we introduced the “circles of influence” which form the context (see diagram below) for coaching process. The circles in the diagram above have a significant bearing on coaching effectiveness and need to be addressed by the coach using the theory of […]
Questioning and Asking Questions – what is the difference?
A speaker finishes a great speech – at least, HE thinks it is great! He then asks, “Any questions?” What does he expect? If I were him, I would expect the audience to demonstrate a level of understanding of what the speech was all about and ask meaningful questions – clarifying the ground covered and […]
Co-location of teams and collaboration in Agile – are we making too much of it?
When I started as an Agile coach eight years ago, my only relative and somewhat debatable “agile” experience was some iterative development we did on a very large product over nearly 19 months. This was a project where we worked with 6-week iterations for 14 iterations!! One thing that project taught me was the value […]
