(Picture used with permission from Katia Piroué)
Books we talked about:
- The Complete Ellery Queen Jr. Mysteries
- The Five Dysfunctions of a team
- the harlequin tea set and other stories
- The Nature of Software Development
- Sherlock Holmes
- Who is agile the book edition
People & things we talked about:
- Diana Larsen
- Joshua Kerievsky: learning to drive a bike without safety wheels (Eva learns to ride)
- Agile testing days
- Faiza Yousuf
- Angie Jones
- Andrea Provaglio
- Receiving feedback is a skill that many people haven’t learned yet
- Let’s do small things and then evaluate
- I don’t like housework, I write a list of 6 things, one of them is fun. And then I roll a dice, and I have to do that for 15 minutes.
- Be quiet, asking a question and then give people the time to answer
- I love working in teams as together we know more
- A badman bandaid can fix anything
- We need to tell our kids: if things break I’m here
- I’m kind for giving you that choice
- Being kind is not being nice
- avoid: Misunderstood niceness
- My two main tools (as a manager) are caring and listening
- I don’t manage people, I’m a manager for people
- Sometimes I’m not good at letting go
- If nobody cared about things, nothing would happen
- My biggest challenge is I care
- Role modeling is a lot of the way we learn
- As a leader you need to show that you make mistakes
- It’s OK to say I’ll get back to you
- Mr Rogers
- I like to influence our kids in who they are, not in who we want them to be
- If you are not allowed to show when you are sad or angry, then you put on a fake smile, and you don’t bring the problems that we need to solve….
- It’s a skill to receive feedback
- How you feel about something is always OK
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