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Following Your Fear
How to do the things you’ve
always wanted to do
8’s
Warm Up
Todd Charron
Twitter: @toddcharron
Email: todd@toddcharron.com
Organizational Revolutionist
Improvisor
Fear Follower
Agile Improv
Fear
Let me tell you a story...
Improv
1994
Opening: Monologues
3 Scenes (1A, 2A, 3A)
Group Game
3 Scenes (1B, 2B, 3B)
Group Game
3 Scenes (1C, 2C, ?)
2002
I Suck
Harold Class
With David Shore
Be intentional about about what you want
Lesson Learned...
Harold Class
With David Shore
I Suck
When you act out of fear, your fears come true
- David Bayles & Ted Orland
Lesson Learned...
I Suck
I Love To Fail
And
We have to have the freedom and permission to fail
Lesson Learned...
One man
Harold
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
Lesson Learned...
2005
Agile
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
As a child, I decided
to believe the
opposite of what
anyone told me.
- Keith Johnstone
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
Agile
Fear Loss
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
2009
Solo
Improv
Workshop
With Andy Eninger
Those who challenge their fears, continue, those that don't, quit.
- David Bayles & Ted Orland
Lesson Learned...
2010
Agile Coach Camp
Canada
Attack the stage
Lesson Learned...
You have to
do an
Improv
session
tomorrow
Michael Sahota
Yes and...
Lesson Learned...
How we hold fear
Pain Power
Choice
Action
EnergyDepression
Helplessness
Paralysis
Fatalism - The fear
that your fate is in
your own hands, but
that your hands are
weak
- Joseph Conrad
Attack
of the
stickies!
The Haunted Conference Room!
If you're afraid of failure,
then you fall back on the
things you've done in the
past. - Wayne Brady
Harold Scrum
Scrum = Training Wheels Agile
All the things we
say you shouldn't
do when you start,
in the end, of
course you can.
For pleasure, but
not from fear.
- Keith Johnstone
2011
Solo Improv?
Those who challenge their fears, continue, those that don't, quit.
- David Bayles & Ted Orland
Lesson Learned...
We suffer more in imagination than reality
- Seneca
Lesson Learned...
2012
June 12, 2012
http://bit.ly/soloimprov
Photos courtesy: Colleen Yates
I Didn’t Suck
I Didn’t Fail
And
Preparation > Planning
Lesson Learned...
Those who challenge their fears, continue, those that don't, quit.
- David Bayles & Ted Orland
Lesson Learned...
Continually push ourselves
outside of our comfort zones.
Lesson Learned...
canvas.followyourfearday.com
Discuss with a partner or group of three
Eric Floresca - @clickeric
Photo courtesy: Colleen Yates
Eric Floresca - @clickeric
Lauren Dowell
Post what you’re going to do and
when you’re going to do it
somewhere public
#Agile2017 #FYFD
Most of being good at the work of it is to get over
fear.
That everything that corrupts it comes from fear.
Fear is the root. It brings that ego to the forefront
of “How am I doing? How’s it going? How am I being
perceived right now?”
I think it’s not to overcome fear. Fear just
disappears. It’s just not there.
This faith, this trust, and this confidence, when
those things are in place, there’s no room for
anything else.
- TJ Jagodowski
Todd Charron
Twitter: @toddcharron
Email: todd@toddcharron.com
Improv Your Agile or Scrum Stand-up
http://bit.ly/agileimprov
Thanks!
Be intentional about about what you want
Lessons Learned...
When you act out of fear, your fears come true
We have to have the freedom and permission to fail
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
Those who challenge their fears, continue, those that don't, quit.
Attack the stage
Yes and...
We suffer more in imagination than reality
Preparation > Planning
Continually push ourselves outside of our comfort zones.
Questions?
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