Coaches, we all know that confidence is key, yes? It’s not the only key, but it’s key, especially in the beginning. People look to you for ideas, then. And they’re lookinig to you for a number of reasons, but one of those reasons is because they think you’ll have some. And early on, there’s very […]
Coaches: Whence Confidence? Read More »
Possible causal point for a failure to value TDD: geeks thinking the main source of bugs in professional software is not handling the main case successfully. In any feature in any app, there are one or more primary cases. A given story is likely to be concerned with one of these at a time. When
TDD & The Geek-Young: Is Tdd Right For Noobs? Read More »
When you think back to first generation Hamurabi, and then play Oxygen Not Included, or Civilization or any of the other current world-builder games, you see the power of steady accretion of improvement. Do you know that all of this has happened well within my lifetime? I played Hamurabi in 1979, killing time in the
Take A Minute To Just Marvel: GeePaw on Coaching Read More »
Yesterday I asked my timeline how they would answer "Why don’t people do what my software development method says they should do?" I am not remotely surprised that the answers I got were almost exclusively thoughtful and sensitive. The people I hang with are just like that. I want to review the answers, but i’m
Why They Don’t: Reasons People Won’t Try Something New Read More »
A respondent asks about the differences between coaching, training, and facilitation. My answer depends on just how narrowly I treat these things. With a narrow view, they are all quite different. With a wider view, they have many similarities in activity, outcome, and intent. At its narrowest, training speaks to me of formal settings &
Coaching, Facilitating, & Training: Differences & Similarities Read More »
Okay, coaches, where were we? Oh yeah, I remember. I had a long list of gerunds, then a long (weak) chat about "yes". Let’s take another swing today. I grew up on stage. I started acting in community theatre at age 6, and I became instantly fervently addicted. I wanted to very much to be
Coaching As Improv: More On Saying Yes Read More »
I heard from a coach yesterday, of another coach in a room full of coaches, suggesting that they fire a couple of geeks to wake the rest of the team up to following instructions. (I wasn’t there. It’s possible that this didn’t quite happen, possible it was a joke, possible it was a very junior
A Brief Rant On Forcing People Read More »
We talked about local mission: creating or exploiting openings through which we can step closer to who we wish we were. That’s vague, but vagueness is correct here: it’s an overarching mission, not a specific behavior. Today I want to get a little closer to some specific behaviors. Tho not all the way to nuts
The Center of Coaching: Human Interaction Read More »
I’ve got more to say about interactions between humans at that level just above behavior and just below openings, lots more. But I’m going to jump ahead, then circle back. I want to list a bunch of things I do during my coaching days. It’s likely only a partial list, and as always, I reserve
Coaching is X-ing: Things I Do When I Coach Read More »
I spoze today is as good a day as any for me to start talking about what coaching is, about what I do and how and why. Tho I have these conversations in private, I have put off doing it here. I think it’s a mix of factors. Two amusing ones: i’m not very sure
Coaching: What I Actually Do Read More »
