Category: Communication

I previously  wrote about the need to be able to fail in a safe learning environment. That can be in a software course or a course on people skills such as customer service. We do learn a lot from our mistakes. An essential part of a learning environment that lets people fail – or any […]

Human beings are focused around interesting, pivotal moments and ideas.  We assign great meaning to certain concepts such as courage, self-sacrifice or leadership.  Certainly when humanity faces challenges these become more highly valued and more sacred. These concepts are focused on the belief that humans are social animals and like chimpanzees, bees etc, we rely […]

Before I get started, the information and ideas in this post apply to virtually all topics. It is intended as a followup to the earlier post on cybersecurity frameworks but can stand completely alone for those who are interested in other areas. Selecting Training In terms of delivery, an online course is significantly different from […]

Imagine you work in construction. You open your toolbox one morning to find that your saw is sharper and your drill more powerful than the night before! Not only that but some tools have disappeared and yet you have more tools than yesterday! Some tools you rarely use and others never! Whilst paying for all […]

Agile in general, and Scrum in particular, relies for success on self-organizing teams. The eleventh of the principles behind the Agile Manifesto states that “the best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams”(1). Empowering the team is one of the seven principles of Lean. One of the central Scrum patterns is ‘Stable Teams’ (2). […]