Hello Everyone, Diaspar Software, ProjectSuccess, GreenPepper™ and Pyxis are proud to present our 3rd installment of the XP Day North America series, XP Day ...
Hello everyone, Just a brief and friendly reminder that there are only 5 days left to register for XP Day Montreal taking place on September 23, 2006. If you...
Greetings, Fans of Agile teams -- Once again, December 5-7, 2006, Esther Derby and I present "Secrets of Agile Teamwork: Beyond Technical Skills," a workshop...
Hi everyone, I've just finished reading a fantastic new book. If you are in the business of selling or promoting ideas then you'll it invaluable. I honestly...
Inspired by the overwhelming response I received on the survey I initiated seeking responses from CSMs on their Motivation to take up such a Certification...
Please see the recent posting by John Smith on the industrialxp@yahoogroups.com Forum reproduced below. This is an excellent Agile Certification Scheme. I...
I believe that all of us are involved in sales in all our dealings with others, whether we're trying to get family members to go see the movie we want to watch...
Joshua makes a sales pitch for selling, and I think it's a good one. But I do think we ought not to assume that "selling" is a good metaphor for all of the...
Here's an article I wrote for stickyminds.com about one of the first times in my career that I had to figure out how to sell in my career. The thing I was...
... automatically puts me, if I'm the seller, into an attitude of "I know better than you" rather than the position of "let's work together to solve a ...
Hello, Clarke. On Friday, April 20, 2007, at 2:56:12 AM, you ... I recently bought a car accidentally. I wanted to drive it to see what it was like but was...
Patterns :-)! Thanks, Ron :-)! ... -- Co-Author of "Fearless Change: patterns for introducing new ideas" www.cs.unca.edu/~manns/intropatterns.html Check out my...
... Agreed, but I may not have communicated clearly. Certianly having a supperior attitude is a problem. But I was going for a larger point, I think...
Hey Mark I guess we're disageeing about the meaning of a word. I don't think that we disageeing about much more than though. I think I am saying that sales =...
... That's certainly possible. But I think talk about "sales" is pretty much at home in the context of buying cars, and feels pretty out of context when we...
Dear Joshua, I'd like to attend your talk on selling agile at XP2007. I also was forced by circumstances into sales about two years ago. I gave a presentation...
Hi Ron, Your story (not you) reminds me of a quote from Yogi Berra: "There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em." It kinda fits...
My apologies if you've already received this as a member of another Yahoo group. What: Diaspar Software is proud to present the fourth installment of the XP...
The LAWST meetings and derivatives have used it for a while, with a moderator to keep track of who's on thread and who wants a different thread. Seems to work...
As I mentioned on my blog, I've only just started using it. I know full on LAWST style uses cards, and haven't seen the thing Brian describes, but the...
Diaspar Software is proud to present another installment of the XP Day North America series: XP Day Manhattan taking place on October 13, 2007. The focus of XP...
The interest of members of this group is to try to spread/sell/engage others in discussions about agile. I've just finished a series of five articles about...
Earlybird Ends 1 February. Sign up now at: http://apln.org/summits.html *Don't miss the upcoming APLN Dallas Leadership Summit!* */"Agile Leadership: What is...
Hi everyone, I want to point you to an international survey studying the effects of cooperation on work conditions, and discriminating agile teams/companies. ...
