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• Xpoogle, DotNoodle and Scrumoogle – Brothers in Arms

  Google Custom Search Google's custom search also dubbed CO-OP makes it easy to create a search engine which will only return results within a certain topic. You control which pages are included in the result-set and how they are being included. I will not bore you with details for, Goole manages to explain their service quite well. Simply follow the link posted above. The reason why Google Co-OP is mentioned in this post, is because Tim Haughton created XPoogle and DotNoodle within a few hours. While XPoogle focuses on topics related to Xtreme Programming and DotNoodle focuses on topics around .Net. Watching that development, I could not help myself but to create a custom search engine which focuses on Scrum and staying with the naming theme so well established by Tim I have dubbed it Scrumoogle... Read More... Posted 20 June 2007 21:00 by David.Hoehn | 2 Comments Filed under: Agile, Google CO-OP, Scrum, Collaboration

• General Update On Agile Events

  The Fall 2007 Gathering. As some of you might know the Scrumgathering in November is being organised by the Scrumalliance and Conchango agreed to help as best as possible. After some preparation time the Scrumallaiance has now released some more information Read More... Posted 12 June 2007 10:33 by David.Hoehn | 0 Comments Filed under: Agile, Agile Alliance, certification, APLN, Learning, Scrum, Scrum Alliance, community, Conchango

• I am tired of Scrum...

  I do not like to listen to the same song over and over again, especially not when I know there is a whole album, a variety of tunes I could be listening to. Recent developments in the agile community suggest that people realise more so than ever that Read More... Posted 26 April 2007 11:24 by David.Hoehn | 1 Comments Filed under: Agile, APLN, Recognition, Learning, Scrum, Scrum Adoption, community, Conchango

• Pace Yourself – NLP, Agile And Retrospectives

  Moving from one country to another is never easy. Being confronted with a different lifestyle and different expectations make it hard at first to adapt to the new environment. Maybe that is why I underestimated how much change in my approach would be Read More... Posted 16 April 2007 10:45 by David.Hoehn | 1 Comments Filed under: Agile, Agile Mentoring, NLP, Retrospective, Coaching Attachment(s): EstablishingRapportConsultingClients.pdf.zip

• Impossible - Agile Teams and the Absence of Roles

  Recounting the times I have heard the word impossible in the last couple of months is easy for me. I can even tell the occasion and usually when it happens. Expanding ones horizon and not limiting yourself to established and understood modus operandi Read More... Posted 22 March 2007 11:17 by David.Hoehn | 1 Comments Filed under: Agile, Agile Mentoring, Scrum, Self-Organisation, Teams, Human Resourcing

• Facilitation by Closing the Door

  Something to Consider... Before I dive into my thoughts, trying to untangle them long enough so that I may write something half decent, I would like everyone to consider the following few lines of text. These sentences have been taken from the lyrics Read More... Posted 10 February 2007 18:28 by David.Hoehn | 0 Comments Filed under: Facilitation, Agile, Agile Mentoring, Scrum, Scrum Adoption, Conchango

• Common sense and all that...

  I am reading a book. A rather interesting book which is entitled Getting to YES . Contrary to what some might be thinking right now, it is not a guide on how to date, but rather a conglomeration of guided advice on how to be a better negotiator. While Read More... Posted 25 January 2007 15:53 by David.Hoehn | 0 Comments Filed under: framework, Agile, Scrum, Colin Bird, Conchango

• Great bag - wrong laptop - neat phone.

  I arrived in London on BA699 on Monday the 15th of January 2007. Of course we ended up being late so I had to rush into the Egham office. I hate nothing more than to be late and thankfully I was not. You do not want to be late for your Introduction, now Read More... Posted 22 January 2007 10:47 by David.Hoehn | 2 Comments Filed under: Introduction, Agile