Team Building Tips for Managers from Agile

I wrote the following, originally, for an ideas post at work.  Then I cleaned it up a little to take out some "my company" specific examples and posted it on Linked-In. Then I remembered that I don't post enough content to my blog anymore, so here's a post with a link to a post. https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140701163145-41328787-team-building-tips-for-managers-from-agile?trk=mp-reader-card

3 Jul 2014 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Goodbye to Jenn Gabriel-Powell

I'm in a hotel in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom.  I'm in the UK on a four week business trip.  I have exactly one friend in Devon who is not from work, and I had plans to hang out with her, and meet her husband today. I guess I should say that I had one friend in Devon who is not from work. Jenn Gabriel-Powell had an accident yesterday, suffered a subdural hematoma, and never recovered....

30 Mar 2014 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Stone, Surgery and Recovery

This tale starts in late June with extreme abdominal pain that, for at least four hours, I was convinced was just severe gas pain.  I was sweating and shaking and curled up in a ball, and eventually asked Jen to get me to the emergency room.  Well, x-rays, urine samples, and a contrast CAT scan later, and I was told that I had a Kidney stone descending into my bladder.  That was 4mmx2mm, and too small for them to try to do anything specifically for....

21 Oct 2013 · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink

NSA and Security, Again

Or: What I knew, what I thought I knew, and what I really didn't know. I have, since at least 1999, worked with companies that are internationally distributed.  This means, I regularly have correspondence with people in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Poland, Singapore and the United Kingdom.  Some of these folks, I have become friends with, so I have had personal correspondence with people in these countries, both paper and electronic....

3 Jul 2013 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink