Comments on: SX: The Beginning http://agilethinking.net/blog/2006/08/14/sx-the-beginning/ Tobias Mayer's Blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:08:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Paul Oldfield http://agilethinking.net/blog/2006/08/14/sx-the-beginning/#comment-33 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:42:54 +0000 http://agilethinking.net/blog/2006/08/14/sx-the-beginning/#comment-33 There's a lot of interesting stuff hiding under the covers here, I think. Starting from the end, I'm one of the people, I think, who sometimes need to move to think. For me I think it's the change in focal length that's important, as if by looking into the distance my brain switches to looking at a broader picture. Moving helps, I can't think why. On learning agile; I've found sessions that combine a problem to solve and a technique to try when solving it work well, specially if the group have a retrospective afterward (possibly not immediately afterward - time to think first seems to help). I think the Extreme Tuesday Club may be a place to ask for experience in this respect, they've been having meetings of various formats every week for years. There’s a lot of interesting stuff hiding under the covers here, I think.

Starting from the end, I’m one of the people, I think, who sometimes need to move to think. For me I think it’s the change in focal length that’s important, as if by looking into the distance my brain switches to looking at a broader picture. Moving helps, I can’t think why.

On learning agile; I’ve found sessions that combine a problem to solve and a technique to try when solving it work well, specially if the group have a retrospective afterward (possibly not immediately afterward - time to think first seems to help).

I think the Extreme Tuesday Club may be a place to ask for experience in this respect, they’ve been having meetings of various formats every week for years.

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