Comments on: “Dear Agile”– A Love Letter

By: Breaking up… | Yves Hanoulle

Breaking up… | Yves Hanoulle — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:39:52 +0000

[...] read Jean Tabaka‘s: LoveLetter that was inspired by this [...]

By: Jean Tabaka

Jean Tabaka — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:44:58 +0000

Yves!

Oh please do! I love the love letter for helping people think about what might be possible while allowing them to state concerns. I love the breakup letter for its ability to let go of difficult situations from the past or that a part of their present. This latter approach brings breath into “letting go”. That often can lead to more, potentially deeper, insights. And I believe that these cannot help but lead to better decisions about how we move forward.

Thank you so much,
Jean

By: YvesHanoulle

YvesHanoulle — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:41:28 +0000

wow, this is a technique that I suspect will be in my toolBox for a long time.

By: Jean Tabaka

Jean Tabaka — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:22:58 +0000

Thanks Jonathan,

I found it so much fun to try. It turned out to be a nice medium to allow people to express concerns about Agile. For me, that was important given that we had been talking for over half a day about the benefits of Agile. Accepting that there is still trepidation seems only fair :-)

Jean

By: Jean Tabaka

Jean Tabaka — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:20:42 +0000

Thank you Christopher. I was so tickled by the readouts of the letters. Actually the fact that people worked in groups to write them AND that they were eager to read them out was so nice. I was particularly impressed with how they were able to express fervent love and yet admit to certain misgivings :-) Isn’t that often true when people are changing ANYTHING about their working modes?

Jean

By: Jean Tabaka

Jean Tabaka — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:18:13 +0000

How wonderful Arrie!

The exercise was a great deal of fun. And, I just ran the “Breakup Letter” exercise for a retrospective the other day and that worked really well too.

Yes, I very much look forward to getting to South Africa at some point. Thank you so much,

Jean

By: Jonathan Kaufman

Jonathan Kaufman — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:49:28 +0000

Love it…so to speak. Great way to get people to express the joy and fear that comes with a change as big as this.

By: Christopher Avery

Christopher Avery — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:03:33 +0000

Very cool Jean. Nice idea, nice application. Great report-out. You always come up with cool ideas and execute on them.

Thanks,
Christopher

By: Arrie van der Dussen

Arrie van der Dussen — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:09:27 +0000

Jean,

Thanks so much for this post, what a great idea!

I have invited all the Agile South Africa (www.agilesa.co.za) readers to submit their letters… let’s see what the response would be…

Hope to see you one day in South Africa at an Agile South Africa event!