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Lean Development - Synergetic with SF?

In the last months I recognized an increasing popularity of "Lean Development" especially in the area of software development. A closer look will show, that "Agile Development" (which is discussed in SOLWorld since a longer time, see http://www.solworld.org/group/karlstadgroup/forum/topics/solution-focused-agility-in ) is very overlapping with "Lean Development", which has a better… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on November 7, 2009 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

"decentering" from problem by using different forms of expressive art

I am just reading this new book: Lösungskunst: Lehrbuch der kunst- und ressourcenorientierten Arbeit von Herbert Eberhart (Autor), Paolo J. Knill (Autor) # Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (17. Juni 2009) # Sprache: Deutsch # ISBN-10: 3525401590 # ISBN-13: 978-3525401590 http://www.amazon.de/L%C3%… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on August 27, 2009 at 1:13pm — No Comments

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools!

One of the SIMPLE principles of SF says: Inbetween - the action is in the interaction and an other says: Every case is different - beware ill-fitting theory and in the "Agile Manifesto" two of the four values are: Responding to change over following a plan Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Today a colleague of mine sent me a… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on June 27, 2009 at 2:17pm — 3 Comments

Could or should SF be scientifically researched?

In the book "More than Miracles" Steve deShazer wrote in one of his chapters, called "don't think, but observe" on page 109 something that could be understood in a way, the solution focused approach couldn't or shouldn't be scientifically researched. More about this you can read in a discussion running just now in the SOLUTIONS-List here: http:… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on June 21, 2009 at 9:56pm — 1 Comment

How to manage OPPORTUNITIES using Risk Management

Working as a project manager (or as a coach for project managers) I always feel very uncomfortable how risk management is done: Finding out how big the uncertainness of results, quality and costs is, digging for all factors which could harm the project, looking in depth for all sorts of impediments and calculating their probability multiplicated by their impact in € or $ ... Then defining and planning actions to avoid, reduce or transfer those risks ... And then, during the project, keeping a sh… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on April 22, 2009 at 7:13pm — No Comments

Edgar Schein: "SF as a simpicistic reduction of complexity"

Just now I received an announcement for a workshop given by Prof. Edgar Schein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Schein) with the title: "Leadership and Transformation - Leadership in tough times", see http://www.trias.ch/d/kurse_coaching_for_transformation_2009.php There I can read: "Sie (= Coaches) setzen Beratung nicht als verkürzte «Quick Fix»-Orientierung… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on April 22, 2009 at 1:58pm — 3 Comments

"implicit" SF found in a "Software development box"

Just now I found a nice piece here: http://www.swqual.com/newsletter/vol2/no6/vol2no6.html It is called: "Project Retrospectives: A kinder, gentler, more productive way to learn from past mistakes" And it contains this part: The “Mining for Gold” Exercise: * What worked well that we don’t want to forget This list is for those things that most agree worked well and that we want to continue doing on the next pro… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on April 20, 2009 at 1:12pm — No Comments

Some important convergences towards Simplicity and Agility in Management

Some days ago I pointed in the Solutions-List to this video: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Agile-Transitioning-Mike-Cohn showing Mike Cohn reflecting upon the transitioning process towards an agile organization and how to deal with the complexity of such processes. And today I become informed about very recent news about an upcoming "deal" between the "Project Management Institute" (PMI… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on April 1, 2009 at 10:40pm — No Comments

SF Self Evaluation for Blended Learning

In Nov. '08 I was invited as a keynote-speaker at the "moodle konferenz 2008" in Zug, Switzerland for the topic: "Solution Focused Evaluations for Learning Processes". You may find the handout (in German) ==> HERE "moodle", by the way, is one of the most popular environments for "blended learning" used in 204 countries by 1,860,009 Teachers in 2,56… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on February 9, 2009 at 11:30am — 6 Comments

IT WORKED: "Teambuilding" for agile Teams

Today I held the "breakfast-workshop" in Zürich about Teambuilding for agile Teams: About the courage, NOT do understand Team Dynamics, as I announced it in this ==> blog (pls follow the link to see a bit more about it) The workshop, organised by the Swiss-ICT working group "Lean, Agile & Scrum" was sold out: About 25 persons attended physically, about 10 to 15 v… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on February 4, 2009 at 9:30pm — 4 Comments

"Teambuilding" for agile Teams: About the courage, NOT do understand Team Dynamics.

"Agile" Project Management is one of the recent buzzwords. And it has a lot in common with SF (see Solution Focused Agility in Projects and Management) One of the four "values" of agility is: "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" Indeed: working together in a project as a self-competent and self-organized team is very typical for a… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on January 14, 2009 at 5:53pm — 1 Comment

The 36th Chinese Stretegem: "If everything else fails, retreat"

This is the most famous one of the 36th strategy, immortalized in the form of a Chinese idiom: "Of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, fleeing is best." (三十六計，走為上策 - sānshí liù jì, zǒu wèi shàng cè) This seems to me similar to the SF-principle: "If it don't work - try something different" What's about the other 35 strategems? How do they fit to SF? Well, looking in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six_Stratagems or (in German) in… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on November 15, 2008 at 11:00am — 14 Comments

How to make benchmarking more SF?

Last week I asked in the Solutions-List for some helpful inputs concerning benchmarking: In the beginning of the next week I have a meeting with one of the established consulting companies for "benchmarking" (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmarking). What I observed is, that the focus of benchmarking is on the difference between the scores for business critical measures of the own company (asking for the benchmark) compared with the best scores of similar companies for the same me… Continue

Added by Hans-Peter Korn on July 17, 2008 at 6:09pm — 2 Comments

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Clean Language and SF

Posted by Judy Rees on November 25, 2009 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Meeting with Agile software pioneer Alistair Cockburn

Posted by Mark McKergow on November 23, 2009 at 12:12pm — 3 Comments

The Thinktank That Created The Solution-Focused Approach - Interview with Eve Lipchik

Posted by Coert Visser on November 17, 2009 at 7:35pm

Lean Development - Synergetic with SF?

Posted by Hans-Peter Korn on November 7, 2009 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

20 Solution Focused techniques

Posted by Coert Visser on November 4, 2009 at 7:30pm

SF gets a warm welcome at the British Wittgenstein Society

Posted by Mark McKergow on November 3, 2009 at 3:54pm — 2 Comments

Presupposing Agency and Responsilbility

Posted by Coert Visser on November 1, 2009 at 10:23am — 1 Comment

Art of Hosting - interesting meta-method of emergent change approaches

Posted by Mark McKergow on October 5, 2009 at 5:00pm

Solution-Focused Assumptions

Posted by Coert Visser on October 5, 2009 at 10:30am — 9 Comments

Praise from the British Wittgenstein Society!

Posted by Mark McKergow on September 25, 2009 at 2:00pm

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