What's New for the Week of May 29, 2006

Here's our host news this week:

Esther is back from a few relaxing days at the cabin and getting ready for Secrets of Agile Teamwork next week in Portland.

Jerry opened the summer cabin in Santa Fe National Forest. He's looking forward to his upcoming June 11 keynote at ICCA National Conference in Newark, NJ. And, in June 12, he'll be book signing in New York City, place to be announced soon.

Don will be starting a collaboration on a Diagram of Effects for Context Switching (aka multi-tasking) with Willem van den Ende on the wiki. And he'll be spending time with daughter and grandchildren late in the week in DC.

June marks Steve's last month as a large corporation employee. He turns over one of his remaining projects this week. He continues to confer with colleagues about starting up his consulting business. He had a stimulating conversation with Jim Bullock over lunch about marketing and selling consulting services on Saturday. The conversation with Jim made it clear to Steve that the words "organizational effectiveness" rather than "organizational development" fit better for where Steve ultimately wants to focus his work. Steve is scheduled to confer with Stuart Scott this week.

Dave and family took a short vacation to Mariposa, in California's Gold Country. He's working this week to help a client build out a system for running developer tests in parallel across multiple machines.

Johanna is in her office this week, finishing her conference deliverables for her England trip in June.