The Art of Changing | Confessions of a Pragmatic Intellectual's Mind on The Constant in Life, Change!
It happened on a Saturday morning at 8:30, in Financial district of Toronto on the first day of October. It was nice to see new faces and the old mates. It was a rejuvenation of the old habits and learning new techniques on coaching. At the core, as always, it lived the same great spirit of…
I was shouting “do not give out the solution”! The worst part was that I shouted right at the beginning of the meeting. I felt like I was derailing the meeting even before it even started and I wasn’t very happy about it. Before getting into what happened consequently to make me do this, let…
Have you ever encountered situations in which you’ve been asked to coach people whom are not coachable? What would you do in those situations? What are the options that you might have? There are not too many options. There are these actions you might take into consideration: Just Give up, ignore the un-coachable. This is…
This year I decided to take part in Agile Coach Camp Canada West edition (as well as East). It was a unique experience. The format as always was an open space format. It began on Friday, June 17th and ended on Sunday, June 19th. In this Agile Coach Camp, I talked on two Topics and co-hosted on…
I attended “Certified LeSS Practitioner” course instructed by Craig Larman offered by Bertieg in April 2016. I also received “Certified LeSS Practitioner” designation from LeSS; as a result of successfully completing the course and its requirements. You can find more details about this course at https://less.works/course-details/certified-less-practitioner-toronto-122 The topics covered in “Certified LeSS Practitioner” are: LeSS Overview LeSS…
During one of the retrospectives, I asked the team to write a postcard to one of our ex-team members. Amer left the team to pursue new endeavours in Montreal. I thought this would be a great opportunity to write him back and send him some postcards. Having that in mind, I asked him to write…
I attended and successfully completed “Facilitation Skills for the Agile Workplace” course instructed by Sue Johnston offered from Its Understood in February/March 2016. I also successfully received “ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)” certificate from ICAgile; as a result of successfully completing the course and its requirements. You can find more details about…
It was a very unhappy time when I had to run a retrospective for a team that their Scrum Master let go the day before. I had to show up and run the retro. It wasn’t that easy to talk to people about what has happened and brought up the discussion. What I decided to do…
I attended and successfully completed “DA301 Disciplined Agile Master Class”. The course was offered by Disciplined Agile Consortium in November 2015, instructed by Scott Ambler. Toronto, ON, Canada: DA301 Disciplined Agile Master Class with Scott Ambler DA 301: Disciplined Agile Master Class The topics covered in this course were as follow: DA 301: Disciplined Agile Master Class…
Agile Coach Camp Canada has turned 6 this year. It was held at two location, in the east and west. With the east one, started one week earlier than the west. The ACCCA east was held in Cornwall Ontario. You can find more information about who attended the ACCCA this year on ACCCA website. The format…