Three basic tools - pen, paper and a kitchen timer - will give you Agile values like…

• Constant feedback about your working habits
• Dedicated decision points to respond to change
• Opportunities on a day to day basis to improve your personal process
• A sustainable pace even when the deadlines are getting closer
• Improved quantitative and qualitative estimates
• Strategy for coping with interruptions and task switching
• Ability to regulate complexity

Do you mentor, coach, teach or just help other people? Do you wonder why after your greatest teaching moments people just don’t get it? In recent years neuroscience has started to provide us with a number of insights in what happens when we’re teaching. These insights make it clear that learning is really about building and reinforcing existing neural networks. Instead of providing lots of new ideas out of the blue, we need to understand the learners existing context and work with that. Instead of focusing on mistakes and errors, we need to focus on what good solutions look like.