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: todd@toddcharron.com

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?

Todd CharronTwitter: @toddcharron

Email: todd@toddcharron.com

Agile Coach, Improvisor

Thanks!

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