The meeting topic: Personas and Agile Anti-patterns

Since most agile practices and approaches hinge upon effective interpersonal communication, it is important to help your team get better at communicating with each other.  In theory this happens naturally when you get your team to meet regularly at planning meetings, standing meetings and retrospectives.  In reality it often takes a lot of effort to get the attendees at these meetings to participate in the discussions.  Why is that?  What can be done about it?  Plan on attending January’s Agile KC meeting and we’ll consider the topic and some possible tips and tricks you can use with your team.

Martin Olson will lead an encore presentation of Agile Personas and Agile Anti-Patterns as they relate to team interaction and facilitation.   We’ll discuss what is meant by facilitation and how it is different from participating in a conversation and how understanding and recognizing different traits can help you get the most out of your team’s gatherings.  We’ll save some time at the end of the presentation for your questions and comments about the presentation as well as agile in general..

Martin Olson is a principal at Silicon Prairie Solutions and has worked as an Agile Coach, Scrum Master and General Cat Herder since 2003.

Hope to see you there!