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 space [...]

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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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Things I did in the middle of the night

November 26, 2009

[This blog is also a diary]
Somewhere in the middle of the night Alexander woke up for a bit of my attention. Once sleep was broken all kinds of things followed:

I kept on returning to conversations at work about empowerment and leadership and drove myself more awake.
Got out of the bed thinking that writing things down [...]

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Me too: regaining blogging rhythm

November 23, 2009

I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but Elmine’s resolution to blog daily for next 66 days was the last drop I needed to make my own. Having a little kid makes daily blogging pretty unrealistic, but I should be able to manage 4 posts a week till Christmas (I work 4 days a [...]

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How to become part of a blogging ecosystem?

November 16, 2009

When I talk about blogging I often tell that it’s individual, but most of the good things that come out of it are the result of being part of a blogging ecosystem. Which often brings questions on how to do so.
The ecosystem is all about connections – between people and online bits (if you are [...]

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#NVB09: blogging from a KM perspective

November 12, 2009

My slides for today’s talk at NVB Jaarcongress – blogging from a KM perspective

Relevant links:

Slide 2: What I talk about is based on my PhD research

overview of the approach and studies done
dissertation online and in print
the findings – PhD conclusions: blogging practices of knowledge workers (appears in the dissertation, pp.207-216)

Slides 3-7: What pragmatists [...]

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Understanding networked professionals: insight from weblog research

November 9, 2009

The slides for my talk at Second international on-line conference on “Innovation in Training Practice”:
Understanding networked professionals: insights from weblog research
View more presentations from Lilia Efimova.
There are quite a few more thinks to add to the talk (links and comments on the questions ;), but this will have to wait till somewhere later during the [...]

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A personal view on knowledge work

November 2, 2009

Today I’m giving an online guest lecture for the course “Knowledge Management as a Theory and Practice” at Graduate School of Management of St.Petersburg State University. It’s on personal KM; since the lecture is very short I decided to do an introduction to the topic based on my own research rather than a comprehensive overview [...]

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Networks, organisations and triangulation

October 16, 2009

Not so surprising that while working on rediscovering where my passions were I re-discovered one that I knew was there. But now I have a new name for it.
First a bit of a story. Last years were a great journey into a networked world – living and working “on the network”, emerging from social connections [...]

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#KM4Dev: Cynefin and dealing with complexity

October 12, 2009

Fresh from Cognitive Edge accreditation workshops Nancy White and me did an Open Space session to share with the participants of KM4Dev workshop some of the things we had learned about the Cynefin framework.
The Cynefin(pronounced /?k?n?v?n/) framework is a model used to describe problems, situations and systems. The model provides a taxonomy that guides what [...]

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#KM4Dev – blogging session

October 9, 2009

Pretty unexpectedly I ended up doing a session on blogging at #KM4Dev workshop. It was part of the social reporting afternoon and was supposed to provide the participants with opportunities to get hands-on experiences with various tools and actually do social reporting of the group work done beforehand.
It didn’t really work that way: we drifted [...]

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Some thoughts on #KM4Dev

October 6, 2009

It’s nice to be a newcomer – you can go around, say that you are new and don’t know much and ask stupid questions. This is what I have been doing at KM4Dev meeting so far.
It’s always nice and strange to discover a network of people who do work and think on issues close to [...]

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What makes a company…

October 5, 2009

My company is in transition: what worked in the past doesn’t work anymore and getting a clear picture of the future is not easy. This raises all kinds of issues and emotions that I don’t want to share in this space.
I picked up the quote below a while ago, but was avoiding writing [...]

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