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If you were at the conference, and did not recommend a book yet, please send me a book too…. 
So here is the list.

If you like this list, you can find other book lists here

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• The gift of imperfection (Brené Brown)
• The power of vulnerability (Brené Brown)

• It’s all about the clit! (Lotte Sierens)
• De vrouw in de moeder (Uwe Porters)
• Het hoogtepunt (Chloé De Bie, François Hervé)
• Breek De week podcast (Uwe Porters)
• Erotic intelligence (Esther Perel)
• Schameteloze Seks (Nynke Nijman)
• Goedele Liekens haar penisboek
• Goedele Liekens haar Vaginaboek
  

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• Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers who changes the world (Rachel Ignotofsky)
• Bedtijd verhalen voor Rebelse meisjes (Elena Favilli)

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During my student years due to circumstances, I lived off social security. And suddenly the 19 year old version of this white man realised what a privileged position I had grown up in. It changed my view of life forever. As a thank you to all the people who helped me, I chosen to give back and support other people in any way I can. Pay it forward, before I ever heard of the term.

Even though it is very easy and usually are small things to support other people in different ways, it always surprises me that so few people see and/or take up the possibilities.

The little things mean addressing people about words like resources and guys. Lots of people think guys are gender neutral, until you ask macho men how many guys they’ve slept with, and their response makes it clear that it’s not so neutral.

At one of my clients, there were two candidates who best matched our vacancy. I argued for hiring the person who looked the least like me and my colleague. Although we got along better with the other person during the interview, that didn’t seem like the best solution from a diversity point of view. (This person was a great fit that worked there longer then I did)

I was the driving force at CoderDojo Belgium Ghent (Together with the coaches) to get 50% girls in our Dojo. Unfortunately, the dads were the ones who needed to be convinced. A story I tell regularly.
However, not just the girls, I thought it was very important that when children arrived I spoke to them before I spoke to their parents. In this way, I wanted to ensure that even the most introverted children knew that their voices were heard. I am very proud that in Ghent we managed to get a person with a severe form of autism to grow into a coach, and that he eventually grew to start his own dojo in his own municipality.

Since 2005, I have been active in the international agile community. Where I have started several global collaborations to spread personal stories.

With my first book I had the goal to have 50% of the stories be about women. For that I made the mistake of only inviting 50% women. I ended up with only 30%. Towards the end of this project I realized that the stories were also far too Western. Instead of a second book, I subsequently chose to start collaborations with local teams in different countries. Which resulted in books in Australia, India, South Africa, Nigeria, Singapore, Ukraine. The collaboration with South Africa in particular was a learning experience, because an initial version also contained mainly white people. Once I realized this, I started working with a new team who corrected this.

I drew from these lessons for the book “Tips of the agile trenches and so I managed to have 50% of the tips written by women. However, even though the tips come from people all over the world, this book is still far too white. Since the beginning of 2022, I have started a video edition of Who is Agile<. I managed to speak to 28% non-white people. For many Westerners that seems like a high percentage, but my non-white friends tell me that depending on how we count it should be between 35 and 45%. I tell this story because inclusion and diversity for me is a constant pursuit of doing better. On top, I have only interviewed one openly non-binary person. In addition to all these things, I am also first follower of all kinds of communities that are concerned with diversity in one way or another. we go stem, Adatalks, WomenWhoCode, AgileinColor, WomenInAgile, BreakingTheSilo’s, madamVelo.
The real work is done there by their teams, yet I like to promote these organizations and I always learn a lot at the events I attend. Because no matter how I look at it, although you can find me at all kinds of conferences for years, I learn the most at these types of events.

After having the experience as a 30-year-old of doing workshops with my father, I chose to also do presentations with my three children.
My daughter was 3 years old when she performed on stage together for the first time. Since then, she has loved giving speeches in which classmates enjoy participating and she was on stage in Indiawhere she subsequently made a few remarkable statements during the speakers’ panel. For years I have been challenging many parents to see how they can include their children in their work, not as spectators but as participants. It provides a unique experience in theparent-child relationship

Some time ago, when my children were unable and/or no longer felt like it, I chose to do my own presentations in duo with women as much as possible. It was my own way of ensuring that the percentage of women at the conferences I speak at does not go down because I was invited; Yet my real reason with these types of collaborations is that I learn more from these people as vice versa.

In addition to my professional work, I regularly provide free personal coaching to people all over the world. Sometimes just in DM, sometimes emails, and just as well in a video call. I am very careful not to mansplain and check whether there is consent for a coaching conversation. (And I am not afraid to admit that I had to grow into that, because what works with people I know from the physical Belgian world sometimes comes across differently with people from a culture that I have never met.)

Since 2010, I have chosen to work mainly with female entrepreneurs. My website is managed by Ine Dehandschutter, editors for my books have always been women, the majority of my own coaches are women, even my dentist, ophthalmologist and the photographer at our wedding. 

In recent years I have also read many books on inclusion and diversity and promote them at every opportunity.

As Putin ramped up his war in 2022, I was inspired to learn Ukrainian through Duolingo as a kind of symbolic support for Ukrainian friends. Since the summer of 2023 I have been working as an engineer manager for a Exalate. We have 30 different nationalities, of which +20 IT people work from Lviv. So my current challenge is trying to bring psychological safety to a team that is not physically safe.

My commitment to long-term change is most evident in my marriage, where since 1996 my answer to the question “why aren’t you married” has been “because my partner hasn’t asked me”. I believe that in these times women might as well ask their partner to marry them. In December 2011, 15.5 years after our first kiss, my partner asked me to marry her.

As you can tell, I do both big and small things. For me, inclusion is a mindset that influences every decision I make. I want to be the change I want to see, because if I am not part of the solution, that means to me that I am part of the problem. And that is not acceptable to me.

And even then I needed to be convinced that indeed I am an inclusive tech champion… Imposter syndrome at the core of who I am, I did not see this comming…

So I’m learning to drop my morality app, and I want to ask you to vote for me

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#Interview with  Faye Thompson, JD for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa061)
Faye was invited by Esther Derby

We talked about:
– Growing into business roles and then into #coaching
– Writing #documentation and move on before developers started
– Having to argument to be allowed to be able to talk to actual users.
– Having a career as an #attorney
– Thinking about post work life
– The only thing left is for me to die….
– I want that the things I’m doing matter
– What do I want to leave behind
– Loving the job as a #coach
– #Immigration system is broken in the USA
– Wanting to explore something more
– There is no one size fits all in agile
– Cleaning up the mess
– #ChangeFatigue
– We tried it, and it doesn’t work
– We stick around when things go bad and then we leave when things go better
– Bringing her whole self to work
– That is not how humans work
– Optimising the results instead of the use of her time
– A development team is always going to look for the most efficient way to do something.
– Giving guidance for managers…
– Reaching out years later to people that had impact on us.
– Dealing with #Cancer
– Whoever show up are the right people
-I can’t chose what happens, yet I can chose how to react to things…
– Being #angry for 15 minutes
– When one person is remote, be all remote
– Have separate facilitators for remote an in-room
– thought limiting cliché’s

Books we talked about :
– You are not so smart ( David McRaney)
– You are now less dumb (David McRaney)
– How minds change (David McRaney)

Faye invited
– Mark Kilby
– April Jefferson “Soul Craftswoman”
– Diana Larsen – Leadership Agility Advisor
– Esther Derby
– Johanna Rothmann
– PSL

Faye invited Tammy Gretz

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#Interview with  Chris Lucian & Austin Chadwick for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa060)
Chris & Austin were invited by Patrick Debois

We talked about:
– #Mob Mentality
– A tight coupling by having fun and #effectiveness
– Merging aspects from different parts of life and integrating them
– Austin being influence by his partner.
– Tight feedback loops with #children
– Talking about how #ComputerScience was almost an accident
– Starting IT for #money and liking it
– Valuing a #worklife balance
– The worklive balance in the #gaming industry
– Mob programming influence a low bug count and build in knowledge sharing
– Worklife aspect is much better in a team that mobs
– No one can stay on the same product for more then 2 years
– #chaosengineering at team level
– Communicating outside a group so that management is aware and wel understand the financial – impact on mobbing
– Mob programming for a decade
– 3 to 5 people mobs
– Providing space for experiments
– #PromiscuousPairing (from Arlo Belshee)
– Daily swapping the mob
– Unconscious dependance when people stayed for 5 years instead of documentation or automation
– Being prepared for turn over, also at budget level
– Mobbing helps skyrocketing developers
– Every 5 years all people have a life changing event.
– Average level of happiness
– Marketing competition spreadsheet
– Total nr of people on your team divided by 5
– Is your turn over under or over that number?
– Discussions in a mob with different world view.
– Automating
– Learning by having models around you
– Nono Donsa experience of body language was different at school and at home
– Nina Derwael Olympic medals
– Satir model of change
– Tuckman team model
– #psychologicalsafety
-The world is my #Kanban
– Learning loop
– #Kaizen Habits instead of trying to be the best …
– Draw separately and then compare
– People learn when they are wrong
– #uml diagram of whet you just discussed
-What is the learn effect
– Difference between #introverts and #extraverts and their differences between in person-remote
– Measure the impact of the life of your employees
– Dora metrics

Books we talked about :
– Dynamic retiming (Heidi Helfand)
– Grit book (Angela Duckworth)
– How emotions are made (Lisa Feldman Barrett : learn about how you are wrong about reading body language)
– Mob programming (Woody Zuill )
– Thinking fast and slow ( Daniel Kahneman)
– Reality is broken (Jane McGonigal)
– Accelerate (Nicole Forsgren)
– Atomic habits (James Clear)

They invited
– Woody Zuil
– Joe Justice (Wikispeed)
– Colleen K.
– Mike Clement

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#Interview with Emily Bache for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa059)

Emily was invited by Clare Sudbery (she/her)

We talked about:
– Working with #legacy code
– How her husband influenced her #career.
– Going to #conferences as a couple
– Finding coding fun
– She does not want to stop coding as that is the fun part.
– Doing co-presentation
– Having children that are not interested in programming
– #Singing in choirs
– Working as a musicians
– Comparing #codingdojo and musical
– How do you show progress when you start with something ?
– #Teaching
– You can’t learn a skill from reading
– you can learn the theory, yet not the skill
– Trying the examples in the books
– Being the most passionate
– Being an inspiring choir leader
– There are so many fun tings to do
– Emily has got options
– Building her carreer in a way that she always has avenues to move to, if the current one does not turn out to go somewhere.
– Understanding quickly the problem a team has
– it’s rewarding when you work hard get good grades and teachers appreciate you.
– She does enough to get the results she wants,
– She wants to make a difference
– Making the software better to change the world

We talked about
Kent Beck
Samman Technical Coaching
Dion Stewart & Joel Tosi
Vladimir Khorikov

Books:

Extreme programming (Kent Beck)
– Emily’s books:
Coding Dojo handbook
Mocks Fakes & stubs
technical coaching with the Samman method

Creating your Dojo
Coaching for learning 
Unit testing principles

Emily invites:
Dave Farley

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We wanted to move to continuous deployment, yet we could not convince our client to do so.
Although we could not install automatic, we did build a pipeline for our installation. 

At that moment we did demos at the end of our sprints. When the demo was finished we asked the client if we could install. When the client agreed could, we launched our pipeline to do the installation.

I bought the red button you see on the left. (I bought it on DreamCheeky yet that website no longer sells it. The link on barndo.com still works, yet the item is no longer sold)
This USB button, has two events, the opening of the cover and the pressing of the button.

One of the developers look at the code that came with the button. The code is now available on github, yet then it used to be on codeplex. That developer adapted that program that the opening of the cover, would launch the webpage for the pipeline and the pressing of the button, would triggering the launching of the install.

Although it started as a gimmick, it create a real interesting dynamic.
At the end of our demo, we would slide the button to the client. If the client was impressed with the demo, the button was pressed. The client loved that control. Even though before had asked also, and we even briefly had allowed the client to press the right button on our pipeline, it felt too much an IT thingy. The button changed that dynamic. Now the client really felt in control,

The logo.

After most demos, the button was pressed; Yet I still remember that one time, the client had complained about the color of a new logo, at the start of the demo and then everything went smoothly.  The team felt they nailed it again; Helas. The slight wrong color of the logo was enough to not press the button. After the initial surprise of the team,I saw in the corner of my eyes two developers making signs to each other.  Later it turned out one of them she wanted the other to stall the client, she went back to her computer, implemented the requested color change, once she committed that was automatically installed on our demo site. In less then 5 minutes she came back, showing the results to the client, who asked for the button and pressed it. The combination of the feedback, the refusal, the quick fix and the button made a huge impact on both the the client and the team. Not long after that we were allowed to do an continuous delivery (The client now felt we would be able to roll back very fast if needed. )

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#Interview with Alexis Monville for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa058)

We talked about:
– what he learned from the #codereviews of his first boss
– Cofinding a web company before the webs had really taken off
– Why he prefer to focus on the #impact over the feature he delivers
– Working while being in school.
– Something I don’t know how to do it, and then I work with other people and together we found a way
– What skills do I need to learn to be able to do the job what I want to in 10 years….
– Let’s leave the world in a betting ter place than when I was born
– Having impact is impossible by myself.
– How what he learned from #writing his first book, influenced how he wrote his second book
– Involve people at the level they feel conformable.
– What kind of impact we want to have
– Alexis prefer to focus on impact then on features
– If you work remote, hold a few remote off-sites every year and plan that ahead of time.
– You can use impact mapping in a lot of different context, including for yourself.
– Learn about the business of your company.
(And the accountancy etc)
– Are you hiring for the jobs of today or the jobs of in 5 years?

We mentioned
Alistair Cockburn

Books:
– The Leprechauns of Software Engineering (Laurent Bossavit)
– The Founder’s Dilemma (Noam Wasserman)
– The e-myth (Michael E. Gerber – Beyond The E-Myth)
– Impact mapping (Gojko Adzic)
– Changing Your Team From The Inside (Alexis Monville)
– I am a Software Engineer and I am in Charge (Alexis Monville)

Alexis invites:
– Gojko Adzic

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#Interview with Scarlett Sahota  for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa057)

We talked about:

– Ignoring the people when going for an outcome
– Not noticing the changes when they are happening.
– When you point out things to #teenagers, they might not accept it right now, yet they do hear you.
– Little things would stick.
– It was #normal, but it was not everyone’s normal.
– Being the oldest and feeling responsible for some parts of the family. (Called #parentification)
– It’s about find people that care about you.
– Trying 7 different jobs
– She love helping people in a job
– Taking that step back is important
– I wasn’t happy for a long time
– Every ounce of healing will help all her other problems.
– Having a high bar for herself
– I just want to wake up in the morning and be happy
– #Happy people are #fun to be around
– Being a master of #deflecting
– Acknowledging is the first step
– Its hard to brag, and still she talk about her achievements all the time

Personal agility tip:
Your team does not feel safe.
If you assume they feel safe you will likely fail.

Remote tip:
Budgeting time/money to make sure everyone can interact in person.
Everything will feel inorganic to do virtually, so accept the discomfort and just do it.

Question:
When was the last time you reflected on a conversation that did not go the way you wanted and what was your contribution to that outcome?
Allowing someone to mentor
Not understanding e-mail

Books we talked about :
A Court of Thorns and Roses

We talk about
Michael K Sahota
Audree Tara
Jerry Weinberg

Scarlett invites:

– Vanessa Yuen
– Ron Laudadio

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