I'm giving two live online agile workshops: Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices on January 27 & Assessing your Agility on February 12.
In this third article in the series on sustainable change, my suggestion that we should stop trying to change organizations that aren't willing to change. Instead, let's give our energy to organizations that truly want to improve and help them succeed.
I'm giving two virtual courses (online interactive workshops) on continuous improvement and organizational agility in spring 2021, in collaboration with Agile Actors #Learning.
In this article, I will show how trust by default works for me and what benefits trusting people from the start has brought me. It's my piece of thought leadership on trust, and my way of doing penance for my agile sins from the past.
I've done a podcast with The Agile Confessional where I confessed my agile sins: managing a team in a command and control way and forgetting to let the world know how the team became truly agile before agile was invented.
The Italian editions of the Agile Self-assessment Game and Expansion Packs, Gioco di autovalutazione agile, have been released. Big thanks go to Fabio Armani for translating the game which makes it available to the Italian-speaking agile community!
In this guest post, Joel Montvelisky explores how increased collaboration to deliver faster with better quality is driving the need to coordinate testing work throughout the delivery cycle.
In this second article in the series on sustainable change, I'll show how I've used a kanban-based approach to manage change initiatives. This resulted in a continuous flow of improvements that were absorbed by the organization, leading to lasting results.
I'm giving a new workshop Continuous Improvement in Remote and Distributed Teams as a virtual course on November 18 and 19, in collaboration with Agile Actors #learning.
My book The Agile Self-assessment Game has been translated into Spanish: El Juego de Autoevaluación Ágil. You can use this book together with the Spanish Agile Self-assessment cards to self-assess your agility and decide on the next steps in your agile journey.
I'm updating my Agile Coaching Tools to support using them in virtual teams by adding images of coaching cards and playing elements. You can download all Agile Coaching Tools for a nominal fee in my webshop.
I'm giving the workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices. Ticket sales has started, Contact me by email to sign up: benlinders@gmail.com.