Technology Featured

After the Chat: Why It Makes Total Sense That OpenAI Made a GPT-4 Presentation Focusing on Developers

Open AI has made a smart move to make GPT-4 invisible to users. Here's why.

Thinking

Broadening Your Understanding: How Working in Tech Gives You a Broader Perspective of Reality

Working in a tech environment is a playground for developing computational thinking and broadening your understanding of the forces that move the world in the XXI century.

Personal Knowledge Management Featured

I Tried to Use Apple Notes as the Core of My Second Brain: Why I Did So and Why It Did Not Work for Me

Before falling in love with Logseq, I tried Apple Notes as my default note-taking app for my Second Brain. Here are the things that worked and did not work for me.

Does It Feel Like Working? How Knowledge Workers Generate Value While Being Away From the Desk

I feel we are just scratching the surface on the best ways in which we can all operate in a flow state and peak performance as professional thinkers.

Personal Knowledge Management

Tips and Links for Getting Started With Logseq

In a few lines, you can understand everything you need to get started with Logseq, the note-taking (and PKM app) Open Source app.

Recruiter: you will get what you ask for even if it is wrong

Today I got a call about a job offer. I will not mention neither the recruiting company nor the final client. This is not a shame post. And also not a post about the whole recruiting world, that would probably need more than a long post. In this case just

Agile Coaching

Cheers for your critical thinking, not so much for you criticism

Let’s make this point clear. Many people mix or interchange too often what critical thinking and criticism mean. They are not the same. But in order to continue, let’s look at the definition of both (according to Oxford Dictionaries) and think about it for a moment. Critical thinking

Retrospectives

Invest time in preparation. Even if someone does not understand it

When I started my path as a Scrum Master, the retrospectives were the first things I knew were going to help the Scrum teams get together, to really feel they were a team and internalise that ours is a process of continuous improvement. However, I confess that I was ashamed

Agile Coaching

Is it good for the team?

Here is a concept to formulate questions for yourself as a Coach when working with teams. Is good for the team … … or you do it so they feel all the time you are providing value? … even if most of them won’t like your question especially at the beginning? … or

Agile Coaching

They never did waterfall anyway

When trying to explain Agile to the people, did you think that maybe they didn’t do waterfall in the past anyway? If you use in any case the classical explanation of what Aigle is about by opposition to a waterfall process it could be a good idea to think

Agile

Is not just about transforming old companies

Agility is not necessary only in large companies, enormously bureaucratic or over-dimensioned. This is the obvious case, that of a giant company in which the development of the product has been trapped in an endless flow of processes, requirements between departments or continuous requests of the high command that deconstruct

leadership

We are the leaders we have been waiting for: A talk by Lyssa Adkins

Let me give you the present of an excellent talk, not by me but by Lyssa Adkins. She is nothing less than the author you probably know by the book “Coaching Agile Teams [https://amzn.to/2YEuJGr].” In this talk Lyssa gave in the cas18, she goes through some ideas

Agile

Are we already agile?

It is an expression that I use myself but I believe that “agile transformation” is not the best way to call it. Maybe when this process starts in a company that is the maximum expression of cascading processes it seems more obvious to see what we are transformed worse in

communication

Negotiating is not fighting

Pushing a bit more is not a fair negotiation technique. Repeating an argument again for the fifth time will neither make it valid not the other person honestly buy it. Conversation, negotiation and collaboration in teams,  with partners, clients and stakeholders is not about winning or losing. If you just

Agile

Working teams. About the importance of inner confidence

Achieving based on interactions, dynamics and attitudes that a group of people open and clearly explain their fears, what worries them in their interaction within the group and how others can help them work better and grow personally and professionally is a stage that shines when one realizes that is

Scrum

How much Scrum is about collaboration

The Scrum Guide has up to ten appearances between “collaborate, collaboration, collaborative …”. It is not casual or redundant. It is very important. The rules of the game that Scrum explains, the definition of roles and responsibilities, are not to have an argument with which to accuse one another when things

Agile

Business is everyone

I have a kind of mantra that repeats a lot when it appears in a conversation, a dichotomy between business and development that says: business is everyone. It is understood the need to use terminology to differentiate between technical departments and those more specialized in plans and business strategies, but

Coaching

The skill that would change everything

There is a skill that is portable, non-dependent on anything external that could change your world. Self-awareness. We all can become better at both exploring and accepting our own weaknesses without fear. Think about which values really support us. Be sincere with yourself and dig inside. Know what you know,

Books

Natural-Born Cyborgs ¿Y si ya somos cyborgs?

El concepto de cyborg (cyber organism) no proviene de la Ciencia Ficción, sino de un planteamiento científico de 1960. En ese momento el futuro de la exploración espacial planteaba una duda: ¿Cómo adaptamos ambientes extraterrestres haciéndolos aptos para la supervivencia del ser humano? La respuesta de Manfred E. Clynes y

communication

Sometimes just listen

When you face a problem, a conflict when you are trying to help someone or just have an idea of what is going on… sometimes just listening is the best idea. Not even making questions. Sometimes just sitting, waiting and listening. Just listening can be if you do it at

Agile

Agility is not a war

It is not about seeing if the techies or product people are right and who gets their way. The issue is not getting managers “go through the hoop” of what we want to do or use subterfuge to get ahead without their full understanding so they don’t bother us.

Coaching

The complex of being from here

I do not know if it happens to you what I call “the complex of being from here” but I’ll try to explain it a bit. Maybe we should look at it every now and then. We tend to have a complex and think that “probably doesn’t happen

communication

We went to the radio to talk about Agile Coaching

On March the 5th four colleagues (Marcos Pacheco [http://marcos-pacheco.com/], Estrella Suarez [https://www.linkedin.com/in/estrella-suarez-a7bb9541/], Tomeu Cabot [https://twitter.com/tomeu_cabot] and me) went to the radio here in Mallorca (IB3 Radio) in the show Incorporación immediata to talk about our vision and experience on

tools

Four tools to improve your daily job as a Scrum Master

As a Scrum Master, I like to always be looking for new ideas, experiences or resources to improve my work. This goes through learning from other professionals, tools that help me in the flow of tasks and simply creative tricks. A Scrum Master, as a change agent, should be an

communication

Decide about the impact of others on you

Decide by yourself the impact of other people’s speech. Be the owner of your mood. We forget, too often, that even after feeling a strong emotion we can decide on the impact of what others tell us. Reacting is human, of course, but also try to remind yourself that