Yes. I know. That question has been burning in your mind. That question — “Who is Jon Spruce?” — simply must be answered. But seriously. I’m going to get a bit more personal in this article. Because I think our personalities and our attitudes toward life in general help determine…

It was another Thursday morning meeting. Who puts in a 9 am meeting? On a Thursday? That’s what was going through the minds of most of the people around the table. On this occasion, the conference call actually worked the first time (HALLELUJAH!), BUT the WebEx and Video Conference were…

A murder of crows. A school of fish. An eloquence (I kid you not) of lawyers. I’m pretty sure that the most apt collective term for a group of Agile coaches working together as a team is “an argument of coaches.” (I’m only half-kidding about that.) …

Transformation and the Oxbow Lake Nature offers us a lot of models and metaphors for life and human behaviour. We’re animals, after all, and our lives and patterns often echo not just those of other animals, but the geography and cycles of the planet itself. In my work as an…

In medias res. Three short Latin words. They mean, more or less, “in the middle.” When you pick up a book or sit down to watch a movie and the story starts in the middle of things — usually at some high or tense point — that’s in medias res. …