In the past two days I’ve presented “Learning Best Approaches for Your Brain” to two audiences. First in Toronto for XPToronto and then Quebec City for AgileQuebec. We got fair sized audiences for each and both groups seemed to have a lot of fun. Given my lack of French I’m truly amazed about how engaged the Quebec audience was – neuroscience doesn’t transcend language barriers easily.
I would to thank the organizers of XPToronto (Lawrence Ludlow, Michael Sahota, and anyone else I missed) you created a great evening. I would especially like to thank Lawrence for picking me up from the airport and bringing me into Intelliware for the day.
I would like to thank Karl Metivier for remembering me from Agile2009, inviting me to Quebec City and driving to pick me up. I would to thank Louis-Phillippe Carignan, Alex and George (sorry I didn’t get last names), for organizing Agile Quebec and growing it, to its current size.
I was asked for my current slides, even with the notes they’re not very helpful. Nonetheless here they are: Learning Best Approaches for Your Brain.
Finally after the presentation I was made aware that I hurt (emotionally) one of my attendees. During my survey he said that he “wanted to learn about Agile”, I wanted to say that this presentation wouldn’t help, but that isn’t what he understood. He felt attacked. Later on I made use of his example again, I can’t remember what I said. He felt attacked again. I apologized in person and he said he didn’t buy it. I accept that. This is my public apology. I pride myself on being a ‘human focused’ Agile coach and obviously didn’t live up to my own standards. For that I’m truly sorry.
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