This weekend, I’ve been playing with Clean Language at Play14 in London. Wanting to turn up prepared, I searched my metaphorical toy box for Clean Language games. I was surprised just how many Clean Language games there already were… as long as you flex the meaning of the word ‘game’ a bit. In the end, …
Psychological safety is an essential ingredient for high-performing teams: probably the single most important ingredient. But how can you build psychological safety in a remote team? In 2016, Google did a huge piece of research into the dynamics of effective teams, called Project Aristotle. Data from more than 200 interviews was crunched using 35 statistical …
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Recently I’ve done lots of workshops introducing Clean Language to Agile coaches, facilitators and trainers. When I ask why they signed up, many of them share the same metaphor: they wanted more tools for their facilitator toolkit. Of course, as we soon discover, each of them means something slightly different by that phrase. No two …
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Fresh from the latest in-person edition of Clean Language For Agile Practitioners, and loving the response to the recorded edition which launched last week, I’ve been thinking again about the benefits to Agile practitioners of learning Clean Language. Here’s my latest summary: Harvest knowledge with greater clarity, depth and context Uncover information, ideas and needs …
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Metaphor isn’t a new thing in the world of software development. As I’ve been increasingly working with Agile coaches in the last couple of years, I’ve been hearing about Agile’s precursor, XP – Extreme Programming, and how “it used to use metaphor, but people didn’t understand it so they dropped it”. Agilists love Clean Language. …
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