Maybe you remember that in the past I referred in some if my SOL-blogs to methods and techniques outside the "SF Community" which have strong similarities with SF without labeling themselves as "SF".
Here is one more of such a piece:
The 4L’s: A Retrospective TechniqueThe L's are standing for:
- We liked it when a good thing took on a life of its…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on June 25, 2010 at 15:30 —
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Just now I found this blog. It is one more proof, that a lot of "SF" is done without naming it "SF" or even be aware that it is "SF-like".
I don't worry about this ... it works and persons are happy with it ....
Here is the blog:
http://blog.james-carr.org/2010/06/10/using-innovation-games-as-retrospective-activities/Of course, the first step ("speed boat")…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on June 11, 2010 at 9:00 —
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At the same time when SOL 2010 happened in Bucharest I supported a workshop in Austria - which was one of the reasons why I couldn't attend SOL 2010 (which I regret - especially after having read all those appreciating comments about…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on May 30, 2010 at 14:46 —
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Colinda de Beer recently posted in the SOLUTION-List:
In my job as a software development manager I try to combine Agile and SF wherever I can. I recently started a blog to share what works for me in combining SF and Agile.
You can find it at :…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on May 22, 2010 at 10:23 —
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This lecture is (IMHO) a diamond:
Prof. Dr.Rolf Arnold (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften, Fachgebiet Pädagogik) presents a very inspiring speech about systemic-constructivistic learning with a lot of synergies with SF:
Erwachsene lernen zwar in…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on May 21, 2010 at 0:30 —
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Today I found this (German) article in a newspaper:
http://www.sonntagszeitung.ch/suche/artikel-detailseite/?newsid=126841
«Ich konnte doch nicht so tun, als würde ich mich über meinen
Brustkrebs freuen»
written by Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of a couple of books, the
last one:
"Bright-sided: How the… Continue
Added by Hans-Peter Korn on April 4, 2010 at 22:11 —
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(although the visual pun works better in German).
At last Wednesday's
Scrum Breakfast in Zürich,
I presented an approach to conducting Retrospectives based on the
Solutions Focus Method (which Alistair Cockburn translated in to the
Delta Method). The idea is that a retrospective is like prospecting for
gold: Building on your…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on March 6, 2010 at 15:00 —
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Just now I found this:
which - IMHO - is not useful for SW-Development only but for all kinds of work and projects.
The messages are quite near to SF:
Each Problem Has Multiple… Continue
Added by Hans-Peter Korn on February 17, 2010 at 12:59 —
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At the
XP Day Benelux, which is an international conference about agile software development, intended for software development and business people from all walks of life, Pierluigi Pugliese offered a well-received workshop "
Solution Focused Agile Coaching"
Here is his ==>…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on December 11, 2009 at 9:30 —
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In the last months I recognized an increasing popularity of "Lean Development" especially in the area of software development. A closer look will show, that "Agile Development" (which is discussed in SOLWorld since a longer time, see
http://www.solworld.org/group/karlstadgroup/forum/topics/solution-focused-agility-in ) is very overlapping with "Lean Development", which has a better…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on November 7, 2009 at 12:30 —
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I am just reading this new book:
Lösungskunst: Lehrbuch der kunst- und ressourcenorientierten Arbeit
von Herbert Eberhart (Autor), Paolo J. Knill (Autor)
# Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (17. Juni 2009)
# Sprache:
Deutsch
# ISBN-10: 3525401590
# ISBN-13: 978-3525401590…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on August 27, 2009 at 13:13 —
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One of the
SIMPLE principles of SF says:
Inbetween - the action is in the interaction
and an other says:
Every case is different - beware ill-fitting theory
and in the "
Agile Manifesto" two of the four values are:
Responding to change over following a plan
Individuals and interactions over processes and… Continue
Added by Hans-Peter Korn on June 27, 2009 at 14:17 —
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In the book "More than Miracles" Steve deShazer wrote in one of his chapters, called "don't think, but observe" on page 109 something that could be understood in a way, the solution focused approach couldn't or shouldn't be scientifically researched.
More about this you can read in a discussion running just now in the
SOLUTIONS-List here:…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on June 21, 2009 at 21:56 —
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Working as a project manager (or as a coach for project managers) I always feel very uncomfortable how risk management is done:
Finding out how big the uncertainness of results, quality and costs is, digging for all factors which could harm the project, looking in depth for all sorts of impediments and calculating their probability multiplicated by their impact in € or $ ...
Then defining and planning actions to avoid, reduce or transfer those risks ...
And then, during the…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on April 22, 2009 at 19:13 —
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Just now I received an announcement for a workshop given by Prof. Edgar Schein (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Schein) with the title: "Leadership and Transformation - Leadership in tough times", see
http://www.trias.ch/d/kurse_coaching_for_transformation_2009.php
There I can read:
"Sie (= Coaches) setzen Beratung nicht als verkürzte «Quick…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on April 22, 2009 at 13:58 —
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Just now I found a nice piece here:
http://www.swqual.com/newsletter/vol2/no6/vol2no6.html
It is called:
"Project Retrospectives: A kinder, gentler, more productive way to learn from past mistakes"
And it contains this part:
The “Mining for Gold” Exercise:
* What worked well that we don’t want to forget
This list is for those things that most agree worked well…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on April 20, 2009 at 13:12 —
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Some days ago I pointed in the Solutions-List to this video:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Agile-Transitioning-Mike-Cohn
showing Mike Cohn reflecting upon the transitioning process towards an agile organization and how to deal with the complexity of such processes.
And today I become informed about very recent news about an upcoming "deal" between the "Project Management Institute" (PMI…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on April 1, 2009 at 22:40 —
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In Nov. '08 I was invited as a keynote-speaker at the "
moodle konferenz 2008" in Zug, Switzerland for the topic: "Solution Focused Evaluations for Learning Processes". You may find the handout (in German) ==>
HERE
"moodle", by the way, is one of the most popular environments for "blended learning" used in 204 countries by 1,860,009…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on February 9, 2009 at 11:30 —
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Today I held the "breakfast-workshop" in Zürich about
Teambuilding for agile Teams: About the courage, NOT do understand Team Dynamics, as I announced it in this ==>
blog (pls follow the link to see a bit more about it)
The workshop, organised by the
Swiss-ICT working group "Lean, Agile & Scrum" was sold out: About 25 persons attended physically, about…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on February 4, 2009 at 21:30 —
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"Agile" Project Management is one of the recent buzzwords. And it has a lot in common with SF (see
Solution Focused Agility in Projects and Management)
One of the four "
values" of agility is:
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"
Indeed: working together in a project as a self-competent and self-organized team…
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Added by Hans-Peter Korn on January 14, 2009 at 17:53 —
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