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Kevin Meyer has an excellent blog entry “Toyota and the Power of People” over on Evolving Excellence. If the Toyota Way has a bottleneck, it must be the time it takes to teach people to live the “Toyota Way”. If you grow quickly (and lose some of your top people), you will be constrained by the number of people you can bring up to the level that real lean requires. Some more about the way Toyota trains people in future blog entries. Dave Nicolette really nails the “9 boxes” interviewing technique, as presented in the “Where does it hurt?” session at XP Days Benelux. The Solution Selling blog has commented on this entry. Virality
The strength of Solution Selling is that this meme not only makes you want to spread it, but it gives you the tools to make it spread. Solution Selling sells itself, by sending its trainees into the world. I’m infected. By reading Dave’s entry you might get infected too. If you want to become a better salesperson, analyst, developer attend a Solution Selling course. It will change the way you work. It could change your life. Okay, okay, I haven’t written a lot lately. I haven’t been thinking a lot lately. I have read a lot lately. I’m still thinking because of that. I have done a lot lately. I’m still buzzing with energy because of that. XP Days Benelux;Bootcamp; Toyota Talent;Consciousness; Protocols; Evolution; Lean accounting;Free will;XP Days London;Throughput accounting;Scary ideas;Innovation;Software For your Head; Agile 2008; sessions, sessions, sessions; XP Day Switzerland; agile business and some stuff I can’t talk about yet. Take your pick, take a fieldstone, any fieldstone. There should be enough stones right there to keep me building for a while This year’s XP Days Benelux conference‘s program again offers a varied and international look at all things agile. The conference has speakers from 9 countries: Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, The United Kingdom, The United States and India. The sessions cover areas such as
More about the sessions later. Register now to benefit from the early registration discount. At 300€ for two days, XP Days Benelux is extremely good value for money. See you there! XP Days Benelux is part of the ‘XP Days tour’ that also stops in London, Karlsruhe, Paris, New York and Manchester. Laurent Bossavit has announced that he’s a candidate for the Agile Alliance board. I wholeheartedly agree with his position statement and the fact that we “need to eat our own dog food”. For example: “The processes used to develop software that support AA activities should be Agile processes“. The software that manages the administration of the Benelux XP Days has been developed as an experiment in distributed agile development and further enhanced at our “Pair Programming Parties“. The result is good enough for me, as the main customer and user of the system, to do my job. I’m now writing some more stories to extend the functionality to everyone who registers for the conference. The software is going to have to be good enough for you. Another of Laurent’s stories is “The selection of conference tutorials should be such that tutorial presenters are given several occasions for feedback and improvement, rather than just one known as ‘The Submission Deadline’.” That’s another thing we try to improve at the XP Days: session organizers send in their initial proposals and then collaborate to improve each other’s proposal. The program committee then chooses from the improved proposals. If iteration and feedback is good enough for software development, it should be good enough for session development. Now, where do I go to vote for Laurent? Either at Agile 2007 (but that’s already sold out) or by mail. Laurent has got my mail. |
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