What's Happening at Agilistry Studio?
Our goal at Agilistry Studio is to offer events with unique and compelling content. We offer both participant-driven community events and commercial training events led by world-class instructors.
Upcoming events:
Coaching with Questions
Aug 23, 2010
One of the most powerful things you can do to help someone solve a problem is to ask great questions. However, crafting great questions is harder than it sounds. It's tempting to ask leading questions, or questions that carry a Trojan Horse payload of embedded advice. But the very best questions are those designed purely to elicit information about the problem, not offer hidden solutions. Such open-ended questions help people remember this forgotten information, look at it in new ways, and see new possibilities. In this session, Dale Emery explores how to use questions as a powerful coaching tool, helping people access information they already have to find solutions to their own problems.
Aug 23, 2010
One of the most powerful things you can do to help someone solve a problem is to ask great questions. However, crafting great questions is harder than it sounds. It's tempting to ask leading questions, or questions that carry a Trojan Horse payload of embedded advice. But the very best questions are those designed purely to elicit information about the problem, not offer hidden solutions. Such open-ended questions help people remember this forgotten information, look at it in new ways, and see new possibilities. In this session, Dale Emery explores how to use questions as a powerful coaching tool, helping people access information they already have to find solutions to their own problems.
WordCount
September 24, 2010
WordCount is a simulation that allows participants to experience a full Agile transition in a matter of hours. Participants start in functional silos: Testers, Developers, and Product Managers all working in isolation. Through a series of rounds participants drive process changes to make their working agreements more Agile. Along the way, we explore the nature of self organizing teams and how coordination, alignment, collaboration, feedback, and visibility increase the organization's ability to deliver efficiently and effectively.
September 24, 2010
WordCount is a simulation that allows participants to experience a full Agile transition in a matter of hours. Participants start in functional silos: Testers, Developers, and Product Managers all working in isolation. Through a series of rounds participants drive process changes to make their working agreements more Agile. Along the way, we explore the nature of self organizing teams and how coordination, alignment, collaboration, feedback, and visibility increase the organization's ability to deliver efficiently and effectively.
Resistance as a Resource
Oct 13 - 14, 2010
As an agent of change, you envision an improvement and work toward making it happen. Inevitably, you encounter resistance: We tried that before, and it didn’t work; We’ve never done that before; That's no different from what we're doing now; We don't have time. Whatever else it may be, resistance is information, and that information is a resource. This workshop teaches you how to use your curiosity and empathy to harness resistance to change and use it as a resource for taking positive steps forward.
Oct 13 - 14, 2010
As an agent of change, you envision an improvement and work toward making it happen. Inevitably, you encounter resistance: We tried that before, and it didn’t work; We’ve never done that before; That's no different from what we're doing now; We don't have time. Whatever else it may be, resistance is information, and that information is a resource. This workshop teaches you how to use your curiosity and empathy to harness resistance to change and use it as a resource for taking positive steps forward.