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On constructing rules of engagement

December 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Facilitation, Strategy

I’m thinking a lot about distributed networks at the moment, decision-making, conversations and how much community ‘platforms’ have moved on.
I’m not sure I even believe in the ‘platform’ concept any more as it so loaded a word with so many centralised implications. As well as this inherited value, so much of our activity is now [...]

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CoP research with K.I.N.

July 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Facilitation, Strategy

The Knowledge And Innovation Network is looking for organisations to partner up in its ongoing Community of Practice (CoP) benchmarking research project. There are a great range of organisations associated with this network, and the first round of benchmarking was a great success. Here’s the blurb:
Networks and communities of practice (CoPs) have increasingly become referred [...]

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Skillswap report on project management

March 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation

(thanks for the space, Pervasive Media Studio!)
We had some good talks and discussion around the topic of ‘Project Management’ at last week’s Skillswap:

Joe Leech talked about being a small cog in many bigger systems: Presentation
Laura Francis talked about how she uses Agile
Fraser Stephens discussed the ‘what to’s of Prince2: Presentation
Eben Halford talked about Scrum: [...]

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skillswap project management

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation

Joe Leech and I are convening March’s Skillswap in the Pervasive Media Lab. It’s called ‘Project manage this!’, and is about project management. I was a project manager once; there wasn’t enough human in it for me and way too much detail, but I remain deeply impressed by a good intelligent emotionally sensitive (but not [...]

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