following your fear - gatineau ottawa agile tour 2016
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Following Your FearHow to do the things you’ve always wanted
to do
Todd CharronTwitter: @toddcharron
Email: [email protected]
Agile Coach, ImprovisorFounder: Follow Your Fear Day
I Suck
I Love To Fail
And
Agile Improv
Fear
1.
Agile
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware 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 onthe right, we value the items on the left more.
Agile
Fear Loss
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware 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 onthe right, we value the items on the left more.
2.
Improv
As a child, I decided to believe the opposite of what anyone told me.
- Keith Johnstone
It's the struggle for something miraculous that makes Improv so astounding.
If you're afraid of failure, then you fall back on the things you've done in the past. - Wayne Brady
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
Not actually Del Close
Opening: Monologues
3 Scenes (1A, 2A, 3A)
Group Game
3 Scenes (1B, 2B, 3B)
Group Game
3 Scenes (1C, 2C, ?)
Scrum = Training Wheels Agile
3.
Fear
Fatalism is a species of fear - the fear that your fate is in your own hands, but that your hands are weak
- Joseph Conrad
How we hold fear
Pain Power
Choice
Action
EnergyDepression
Helplessness
Paralysis
People who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risk necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!
- Susan Jeffers
What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue, those that don't, quit.
- David Bayles & Ted Orland
When you act out of fear, your fears come true
- David Bayles & Ted Orland
You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn't very good, and gradually weeding out the parts that aren't yours. It's called feedback, and it's the most direct route to learning about your own vision. It's also called doing your work. After all, someone has to do your work, and you're the closest person around.
- David Bayles & Ted Orland
Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding
- David Bayles & Ted Orland
Or 2...
1.
Attack of the stickies!
2.
The Haunted Conference Room!
Let's Play!
Yes and...
Word at a time story
What comes next?
So what do we do?
3 Things
1.
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
2.
We have to have the freedom and permission to fail
3.
Continually push ourselves outside of our comfort zones.
Putting it together
canvas.followyourfearday.com
Discuss with a partner or group of three
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?”
Most of my day is spent trying not to think about it. What’s going to happen that night, because I don't want to become fearful about it. And most of what happens in this room is about that. Trying not to get fearful about it.
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
Questions?
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