Tonight Vicki and I entertained Christian, the Master Coach consultant who's been working with my soon-to-be-ex-company for the last eight or nine months. Months ago, he very kindly offered to take a couple dozen copies of The Real-Life Adventures of AgileMan (Lessons Learned in Going Agile) to Agile 2008 next week in Toronto, and we thought that the least we could do in the face of such generosity was to invite him over for a home-cooked meal before then.
It's always great to hear Christian's perspective on things at work, because he has the ability to observe lots of disparate pieces of our organization and discern patterns that others wouldn't pick up on. I like to think that I can do that, too, but certainly not at his level.
As we sent him - and all those copies of my book - on his way after an evening of dining and discussion, Vicki said, "Y'know, it'd really be too bad if he came back from the conference and said that he could've sold 150 copies if only he'd had them." But my response was, "No, that'd be great! Because there'll be lots of other Agile conferences in the future, and if that kind of demand exists, we'll sell lots of copies eventually!" Somehow I can't see that being the reality, but of course it's nice to dream. And with the conference still several days away, dreaming is still allowed!
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That's a good point about future conferences. I was thinking along the same lines as Vicki.
Who knew Matt good turn lemons into lemonade?
What a good juicer he is!
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