Expecting: more kids and challenges

February 3, 2010

I never know when it’s time to tell personal news online and how far it actually makes sense to tell them explicitly instead of letting people to figure it out by themselves by picking up signals here and there… Anyway, in case you haven’t heard yet: another kid is on the way – I will [...]

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Distributed Agile: communication and common ground

January 29, 2010

With the holidays I somewhat took a break from blogging on our work on the distributed Agile case, but there are still quite a few things there that I wanted to share to hear what do you think. This one is a bit scary since I picked up some ideas from linguistics without having a [...]

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Blogging for knowledge workers: personal networking

January 27, 2010

This is an English draft for the second of two articles I wrote on blogging for Dutch magazine Informatie Professional (the first one – Blogging for knowledge workers: incubating ideas). The Dutch version should appear very soon, but I’m too impatient to wait for it to share the draft :)  I’ll add the reference/link as [...]

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Reflective learning and weblogs

January 22, 2010

[This post was in drafts for a while; posted on the actual date of the workshop, so the participants can find it.] When I was asked to facilitate a discussion on reflective learning and weblogs at the workshop on Informal learning and the use of social software in veterinary medicine I hesitated: while reflective learning [...]

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Bringing your network into your organisation

January 13, 2010

Once in a while I get a comment that would be nice if I can bring more of my extended professional network into the company I work for. I’m happy to do so, but pretty much puzzled on how this might work in practice. One side is more or less clear – relying on the [...]

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Blogging for knowledge workers: incubating ideas

January 11, 2010

While my Dutch is still far from perfect I am happy with any opportunity to reach local audiences. One of them was writing two articles on blogging for Dutch magazine Informatie Professional – on weblog as an instrument to develop ideas and as a networking tool. Next to the hard work of translating insights from [...]

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Accelerated leadership trajectories in communities of practice

December 18, 2009

This is something that have been in the blogging pipeline for a while, but thanks to the conversations with John Smith I actually finished it :) A couple of months ago I went through two different, but somewhat parallel experiences. One is from KM4Dev workshop. During one of the evenings I ended up in a [...]

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It snows…

December 17, 2009

I tend to forget how much I like this time – when trees, so fragile and cold, finally get covered by the white blanket. When sounds dampen, because, at the end, it’s easier to hear whispering than any loud noise. When snowflakes are falling slowly, telling you that there is no need to hurry – [...]

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What supermarket shopping has in common with information overload?

December 14, 2009

Still in the middle of writing deadlines, so just something that came to my mind yesterday before falling asleep… I love cheese. I also grew up in a country with planned economy, so while there was a variety of cheeses produced there, you wouldn’t find more than one or two types on a shop shelves [...]

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Leadership is pretty much like respectful parenting

December 11, 2009

Was struck after a conversation about leadership by the parallels I see between it and parenting (or, at least, the parenting values we tend to choose as a family): creating conditions for others to grow without treating them as “small” legitimate peripheral participation: creating conditions for learning by observing and participating on one’s own terms [...]

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Shrunken communication in distributed teams (the egg of communication :)

December 9, 2009

As promised – more thinking from our project looking at the challenges in distributed Agile teams. One of the first things we have observed was a heavy focus on goal-oriented communication between people in different locations: they would talk (this includes ‘type’ :) about solving particular problems around work, but hardly anything else. I drew [...]

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Distributed Agile: the black box of co-located team

December 2, 2009

First, a bit of the context: we are working on a project helping distributed Agile teams to identify challenges they have to deal with and to find solutions for them. Also, as much as I would like to make it a proper research project (with in-depth state-of-the-art review, large scale data collection and time to [...]

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Why sharing a team room might be not so good

November 27, 2009

Just reflecting on a couple of cases where team performance – by design – depends a lot on sharing the same room. Sharing a room is good for productivity and builds on all kinds of powerful activities that happen in  physical space. However, there are a couple of issues with that. Operating in a shared [...]

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What a coffee corner provides, how to call it and a research agenda

November 27, 2009

For a long time I’ve been interested in the fuzzy, informal, accidental and non-goal oriented parts of knowledge work – things that we often do implicitly, but that are actually essential to create a foundation to get things done later on. Normally a lot of those activities are happening in and around of the the [...]

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