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We wish you

an aware enjoying

of a great happy healthy 2008

Yves, Els, Joppe, Bent, Geike

Hanoulle-Ryssen

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I really have been dreaming about this kind of technology.

Finally I can have enough monitors on my laptops.

I  am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net

It's this time of the year again to propose session to different Agile conferences.

After proposing some networking game I also proposed to Peter for the last BarCamp, I now proposed the same game for XPday.fr. Only in Paris there will like +100 people. ( I think even 150) A lot more then even on BarCamp3

Next to that my father and I have proposed the same two games we proposed to XpDay.be

The Conflict Game

The Communication game

Then I have been proposing sessions to agile 2008

This time I have proposed also the leadership game. It still considered our best game by a lot of people.

And it is always fun to do it.

Only transport the props to Toronto will be expensive.

Still writing a few more proposals. At least one for Agile 2008. Helping Pascal for a customer proposal. & Then writing one for paircoaching.net

Don't forget to write your own proposal for Agile2008. One free submission to Agile 2008 for each accepted session.

(You know I advise to do presentations with two people)

(I still haven't found my pair'sfor my sessions...)

Oh and if you are already proposing sessions of yours, please review my sessions. Especially if you have followed them somewhere else.

I  am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net

Beetje late reactie op post van Peter. Sorry peter nogal druk geweest laatste weken.

3 artiesten die ik in 2007 leerde kennen

Oei, ik ben bijna niet buiten geweest.is herontdekt ook goed?

• Thou die hun nieuwe cd nu online uitbrengen
• MegaMindy (om mijn kinderen plezier te doen)
• LastFm (Geen artiest dan wel een mogelijkheid om artiesten te ontdekken)
• Mezelf. Patrick deed me beseffen dat ik door BootCamp mijn eigen creativiteit helemaal ontdekt heb.

3 dingen die ik niet licht zal vergeten

• Mijn dochter Geike
• Joppe leren zwemmen
• mijn 4 jaar gestalt die in 2007 begonnen is

3 stommiteiten of blunders

• herinstallatie van pc, waardoor ik nu niet meer kan printen
• Fotocamera omzeep krijgen op 29 december 2007
• te weinig echte aandacht voor mijn kinderen

3 dingen waar ik trots op ben

• 1 jaar gestopt met koffie en cola drinken
• Starten met PairCoaching.net en de Organisatie van eerste Europees McCarthy BootCamp
• Geike's geboortekaartje & ons nieuwjaarskaartje

3 Dingen die je gekocht of gekregen dingen

• liefde (niet gekocht wel gekregen en gegeven)
• Digitale fotokaders: ideaal voor zowel professioneel (distributed team) als privé (gezinsuitbreiding)
• massa's boeken

3 mensen die dit stokje van mij krijgen

Heeft dit zo laat nog zin?

• Nog eens een poging om Jan aan het bloggen te krijgen
• Koen, al lang niet meer mee gesproken, en nu online herontdekt.
• Els, omdat ze in mijn straat komt wonen..

   

What a cast to have on a video about your last day...

I  am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net

A lot of fuzz on the internet about the new website of VRT.

Even an action in favour of good design. De Red-Actie.be (Not to confuse with the Red campagn)

I did not have time yet to "enjoy" the (real) Redactie site. I am not even a designer, so I will not add more noise to the discussion.

I am interested in the social, wikinomics aspect of the red-actie.
I have been coaching a partly Belgium-Partly Russian team for the last 2 years. Communication is crucial in working over the internet.

At previous BarCamp I wondered if anybody had used Twitter for project communication. I think that at least the project got started over Twitter.

So for the sake of a real wikinomics project in Belgium I hope Bart & co continue this action.

I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net

I think that in this flat World of Wikinomics we need new kind of leadership styles.

New ways of communication in and between teams.

Personally I think that the rules of BootCamp are the start of this new way of communicating.

I realize that for the fast changing world this might not be enough.

That is why I want to organize a Guru BootCamp.
It will be something like an Open Space event where people who have been thinking and writing about Leadership will meet and work one week together.

Using the core protocols as a starting point, a guideline to come up with something even better.

If they don't like the Protocols (which I'll doubt), they will spend one week together with similar minds.

The people I have in mind will be very hard to get together. That's why I want to try it. And that is also why I need all the help I can get. If you know anyone who could help me in getting this organized please contact me at Yves at paircoaching . net

Update:

I created a Wiki page for Guru BootCamp that participants can change themselves.
If you have suggestions for people that should be there too, please add them to the suggestion page.

Date is set from 2008/06/15  17:00 till 2008/06/20 15:00
I could have tried the Wisdow of Crowds approach to select the best date, but I'm afraid that will make it very hard to decide and it will take to much time. On the wiki the selected people can get connected and can decide on another date if they want.

This week is invitation only. So the participants have to be on this list. I have probably forgotten a lot of names. I will add more; And if you think of people I forgot please add them to this list.

In alphabetic order:

Leadership

1. Deborah Ancona
2. Peter Block
3. Henrik Bresman
4. John Cleese
5. Jim Colins
6. Dr R Covey
7. Paul Glenn
8. Eliyahu Goldratt
9. Michael Hammer
10. Philip Kottler
11. Robert Kaplan
12. Henry Mintzberg 
13. David P Norton
14. Tom Peters
15. Michael Porter
16. Frederick Reichheld
17. Jean Tabaka
18. Ben Tiggelaar 
19. Robert Quinn 
    

General

1. Chris Anderson
2. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
3. Edward de Bono
4. Tim Ferris
5. Thomas l Friedman
6. Malcolm Gladwell
7. Daniel Goleman
8. Al Gore
9. Dalai Lama 
10. Alice Miller
11. Oprah
12. Robert Scoble
13. James Surowiecki
14. Dan Tapscott
15. Jan Vermeiren
16. Anthony D Williams
    

Artists

1. Bono
2. Anton Corbijn
3. Bob Geldof
4. Ali Hewson

It / Agile :

1. Christopher Alexander
2. David Anderson
3. Kent Beck
4. Scott Berkun
5. Barry Boehm
6. Frederick Brooks
7. Alistair Cockburn
8. Alan Cooper
9. Jim Coplien 
10. Rachel Davies
11. Tom de marco
12. Esther Derby
13. Dov Dvir
14. Martin Fowler
15. Robert Glass
16. Jim Highsmith
17. Luke Hohmann
18. Andrew Hunt
19. Ron Jeffries
20. Craig Larman
21. Diana Larsen
22. Dean Leffingwell
23. Robert C Martin  
24. Steve mcConnel
25. Mary Poppendieck
26. Tom Poppendieck
27. Linda Rising
28. Ken Schwaber
29. Aaron J Shenhar
30. Joel Spolsky
31. Dave Thomas I
32. Dave Thomas II
33. Weinberg
34. Yourdon

The holiday season is the time to re-install my pc's.

I tried to install Vista, but it's complaining that it is not supported on this machine. I have a Pentium 4,  200 gB harddrive, 4 GB memory. It's complaining about something that XP wants as well (already forgot the details...)

Anyway, I did re-install Windows XP pro on my machine.

Everything fine. Except for my printers.

Let me Copy/Paste the error:

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Printer Properties
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Test page failed to print. Would you like to view the print troubleshooter for assistance?
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Yes   No  
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I downloaded the last printer drivers from HP for my 9130 printer.

My printer is online. And I can print from other machines.

Settings from the other machines are the same on this machine.

I have tried to do the same thing without FireWall.

I have tried to offer complete acces to the Spooler folder.

Anybody any other idea's?

One of the outcomes of the November BootCamp are the letters of Future PodCasts that can be found online at the Have A Scary Idea website.

I am amazed of the way this team is still connected more then 1 month after BootCamp.

If you are looking for new innovative Scary idea's, have a look at the website and listen to their PodCast. You can use Doppler to subscribe to them.

I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net

When I read "Software for your head", I loved the protocols. I really thoughed they were a very powerfull way to optimize the communication in a team.

I was not sure how to use them in a team. I only dared to use them in a team after I did follow my Oklahoma bootcamp.

I was blow away about that experience. Last year I organized one in Belgium and was happy to see, it had the same effect on the participants.

This year I will focus myself on organizing BootCamps. so 2008 will be totally different from what I amused to.

I have never done this and not on that scale.

I will need help, lots of help. That is what I will focus on the next months.

I'm glad I started this journey

I'm sad I did not do it before

I'm afraid and glad,  I do'nt know what the consequences are for my life

Let's go for 2008...

For people that haven't read "The World is flat", and want to know why they should read the book....

My solution to these challenges is BootCamp.

Better communication in your teams, distributed or local.

Come to our info evening tomorrow to learn what you can do...

Op woensdagavond 19 december en woensdagavond 23 januri 2008 organiseert Koningsteen in samenwerking met PairCoaching een info avond over the core protocols en BootCamp.

voor meer informatie over BootCamp, lees hier...

The core protocols:

• Pass
• Unpass
• Check In
• Check out
• Ask For Help
• Protocol Check
• Intention check
• Decider
• Resolution
• Perfection Game
• Personal Alignment
• Investigate

Inschrijvingen:

• via inschrijvingsformulier hier.
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• met vermelding van bedrijf en datum avond.
• ontvangst met broodjes om 18:00u

I'm just back from a GTO (Gestalt Therapy Training) weekend.
I don't want to write too much detail on what happens there, as that is private to the group.

Although we don't learn techniques in the GTO, on thing that happened gave me an idea.

The way we deal with being angry is, is based on a script we wrote ourselves when we where kids and how we were allowed (or not) to deal with that.

The Check in protocol can help with that. Saying that you are mad, glad, sad or afraid. Checking out when being mad is as powerfull.

With my kids I learn them that being mad is OK.

It's not OK to hit me, themselves or someone else when being mad. Neither is doing anything stupid (like distroying something...)

So when my 3 year and 5 year old kids get mad and hit me, or spit at me or something similar I ask them to checkout or I put them in time-out.

Today I saw a very powerfull reaction of our trainer to a person being mad at her.

It's ok to be mad at me.
I don't promisse I will change my behaviour. But when I do this acion again, you are allowed to be mad, and every time this happens I will give you the time to deal with it.

In this case the person was given a pillow she could hit on. And believe me it helped.

It made me realize I allow my kids to be mad but I do'nt give them a tool to work out their frustration, their emotion and their energy.

It's not yet clear to me how we will do this. It is clear I want to do something with that idea.

I loved the fact that the trainer said, "it's ok to be mad at me. I will do the same thing. And it is OK to be mad at me for that." I noticed that this surprised a few people. I don't see many managers saying this. For me this is one of the qualities of a good leader. (Or parent).

It was also very clear that when you deal with this kind of situation badly as parent/manager, you can damage your kids/employees a lot.

The core protocols are a great way to deal with emotions at work.

I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net

Last week I went to MBA in 1 day

I give it a 9/10

What I liked about it:

Ben Tiggelaar

The total experience concept

The amount of useful information

The speed

The fun I had

The people I met. I saw my neighbor, an ex Youthclub-colleague, a Barcamper, some new people, a reporter

The place

The pictures

The attendances list

The stop doing list

The Cd's

The Video's 

What I need to give it a ten:

The dinner break had a lot of food but most breads contains the same. For someone allergic to cheese that gave a lot of problem.

Closer to my home without traffic problems

More organized networking in between the sessions and at the beginning

Find a better way to make people actually interact better during the questions part

Want to learn about perfection game?

I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net

I give it a 7/10

What I liked about it:

• The organizer
• The participants
• The sessions
• The KoffieKoeken
• The pictures
• The Slides
• The T-shirts
• The Wifi Access
• The fact that new people showed up.
• Anne bringing the food to people who actually need it.

What I need to give it a ten:

• Less but more different food (I'm allergic to cheese.)
• Personally take the time to sleep better before the event
• More buzz around it.
• Me bringing my laptop. (Would have been easier to give an unprepared presentations)
• On another  date (1 December is the weekend before another important event for parents)
• Me asking Peter for help on how I can help him.
• All of us ignoring the people who subscribed but did not show up.
• Me doing my "networking game" to make people better connect at the start of the event. (Instead of talking about it with Peter)

Want to learn about perfection game?

I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net

David wrote a great book on Agile Management. He is a leading authority on agility and lean.
Check out his blog to learn about all kinds of improvements on your processes.

So when I read he was coming to JavaPolis, I contacted him and asked (ask for help) if he did not want to do a session for XP.be.

David being the nice person he is, said yes. He will talk about one of my favorite topics. (No I did not select it.) Trust.

So if you want a free first class talk, in the building of JavaPolis, be sure to subscribe here.

I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net

BarCamp Brussels 4 is over.
Like many people I have mixed feelings about the event. 

I'm biased, I have sponsored the event (See picture).

Let's start with myself. I was too tired. I had a late night chat with Jim the night before.
I changed my presentation that same night and did not do a dry run. That was a mistake. It went wrong from the very first minute. I was speaking too quick.

Like all these other people already wrote, the atmosphere was different from last time.

We had less buzz, even Peter did not write so much about it. Maybe because everyone (except me) twittered more then blogged. I don't know much about twitter but to me it feels easier for outsiders to read blogs then to read twitterfeeds.

Never the less I'm still considering to use twitter on my next project for team communication. I got distracted again, back to BarCamp.

• I like the open aspect.
• I like self-organizing teams.
• Who does not love Peter?
• Just like last time I heard some interesting talks.
• Also some  fun talks (delivered by the Flemish CSI)

I had a few reason's not to be there on Saturday. Some might say, I even had a few good reason to be there.

I have been told lately that after a women has given birth you should not ask within the first months if she would like to have another child. I think that is the same for an even organizer. Peter did a great job for 4 times. I think it is normal and even good that it sometimes is a little less. Good as it is a reason to make it better and to think about it.

I already heard some good idea's. I would find it a shame if Peter gave up after this BarCamp as it still was good.

I agree it was not super great. I know a few people would love to help Peter with the organization. so my advise to Peter is Ask for Help. I like the idea of BarCamp Gent or BarCamp Antwerp, maybe we should just call it BarCamp Belgium (and it can move to any city we want)

I propose we forget about it for a 3 months. And then we meet in somewhere offline and think about BarCampB.

1, 2, 3

We could hold a real retrospective now. I will post a perfection game on BarCampB 4 later this week.

One more remark, I'm "collecting" picture of people with the PairCoaching marketing material. So please add pictures of the cups to your Flickr account and add it to our PairCoaching publicity group... If you want you could end up in our slides announcing the breaks in our courses (slide 23 ) ...

I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net

Next Wednesday Thou is playing in de Vooruit Ghent.

Unfortunatly I will not be able to join them. I saw them the 11 oktober in Oostend and it was great. I still think they are one of the best bands in Belgium.

I love the fact that they are selling their music now only digitally. (Or at their concerts). (They did it before Radiohead said they would do it...)

If you like "Not like Beatles" (the first song on this blogpost) please send them in de afrekening.

Looks like Bruno Peeters is also promoting Thou ;-)

I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net

 

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Tonight I had a great chat with Jim McCarthy about creating a booted world.
We did not really talk about the slideshow I was creating at the same time, but it did influence my slides... 

I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net

I love Roy's songs as they are viral and he is really trying to get a message across.

Every build you break
Or refactoring you make
Every mock you fake
You little snake
I'll be watching you
Every stand up meeting
I'll believe you're cheating
Every unit test
Pains my chest
I'll be stopping you
Oh can't you see?
This is scaring me
It would be so strange
If my job will change
Every iteration
Continuous integration
Now the client's here
Everything he hears
Man it bothers me
Oh can't you see
Nothing comes for free
Every test you write
Is a waste of bytes
Every class you make
Every build you break
Every mock you fake
I'll be watching you

Talking about gadget's. I would love to see a demonstration about this at BarCamp Brussels

I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach me at blog at my training company  .net