Conversational Dojo Kit

Supplement to the book Agile Conversations.

Change your conversations, and you change your culture. But how do you change your conversations? Understanding isn’t enough. Changing your conversations requires developing new conversational skills, and those new conversational skills require practice.

This free conversational dojo kit from Agile Conversations authors Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick can help you practice how to have effective conversations that lead to real change. By having regular sessions of deliberate practice and relevant, skill-specific feedback, we can make rapid progress.

Pages
12
Formats
epub · pdf
License
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

About the authors

2 authors
Douglas SquirrelTechnology Consultant, Advisor & Expert

Douglas Squirrel has over 40 years of experience in software development. He is an Executive Coach and consulting Chief Technology Office (CTO) in London, making use of his extensive experience growing teams and advising startup founders and senior managers. His previous roles included founding CTO at TIM Group and VP Engineering at the e-commerce startup Secretsales. He has consulted with a wide variety of London startups including Geckoboard, Lostmy.name, DueDil, Kano, and MarketInvoice. He lives in the United Kingdom with his wife.

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Jeffrey FredrickOrganizer, CITCON

Jeffrey Fredrick is an internationally recognized expert in software development and has over twenty-five years’ experience covering both sides of the business/technology divide. An early adopter of XP and Agile practices, Jeffrey has been a conference speaker in the US, Europe, India and Japan. Through his work on the pioneering open-source project CruiseControl, and through his role as co-organiser of the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON), he has had a global impact on software development. Jeffrey’s Silicon Valley experience includes roles as Vice President of Product Management, Vice President of Engineering, and Chief Evangelist. He has also worked as an independent consultant on topics including corporate strategy, product management, marketing, and interaction design. Jeffrey is the coauthor of Agile Conversations . He is currently Vice PResident of Engineering at ION Analytics. He also runs the London Organisational Learning Meetup and is a CTO mentor through CTO Craft.

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