XP Days 2015 – Mind your language
Op 8 oktober spreek ik op DREAM15, hét event voor requirements engineering in Nederland. Onlangs kreeg ik te horen dat ook mijn voorstel voor een sessie op de XP Days Benelux is aangenomen. Deze internationale conferentie is al jaren dé plek waar agilisten uit de Benelux en daarbuiten bij elkaar komen “for exchanging ideas, hands-on exercises and extreme experiences”. Altijd een geweldige sfeer en leuk om daar weer naartoe te gaan. Op 4 december houd ik de sessie “Mind your language”.
Het stukje dat ik schreef voor het programma:
Do you still aim at a team running as a smooth machine? And do you like to attack problems?
Just two everyday manners of speech that give away a lot of how you look at the world. Is your team really a machine, with the team members just cogs? Do problems really need to be attacked? What would the department look like if we, for example danced with problems?
As a long time agile coach, and as a long time storyteller, I am very aware on how I speak and on how people I work with speak. I am aware of metaphors that are being used and how framing can drive opponents in a corner.
As an attendant of the XP-days you are most probably working in organizations and are dealing with change. Maybe you are even leading change. Being aware of your language and of that around you can be more valuable than you thought. In this session I will use an abundance of examples and put you to work to find more yourself. And we will try and work with these examples to see how we can turn them to our, and the organizations advantage.
I build on the work on metaphors by Gareth Morgan (Images of Organization, and Imaginization), the work on framing by Hans de Bruijn (Framing) and the work on non-violent communication by Marshall Rosenberg.
