What are your favorite Scrum books?
Many great books have been published on how to apply Scrum for developing software. Which are your favorite books? Join the online poll on favorite Scrum books!
Many great books have been published on how to apply Scrum for developing software. Which are your favorite books? Join the online poll on favorite Scrum books!
I'm in France happily enjoying my holidays. To make you happy too, all French editions of my books and games are now on sale in my webshop.
The Four L's is a classic exercise that you can use in your agile retrospectives. It helps your teams to look for things they Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed For in their iteration, and to take actions based on their shared insight on how they are performing as a team.
A new version of the Agile Self-assessment Game has been released. Several new playing suggestions have been added and some layout corrections were done to make it easier to print and cut the cards.
Here are some recently published books that I highly recommend on Digital Quality, Team Engagement, and Sense & Respond.
The French edition of my Agile Retrospectives book, Tirer profit des rétrospectives agiles, is now also available in paperback format on Amazon.
In this guest blog post Alan O'Callaghan explains how governance when applied traditionally can severely damage an agile transformation and negatively impact business results. His conclusion: we need a new model of governance for agile.
The book AgendaShift explores how to apply lean and agile principles for lasting change in organizations. Mike Burrows defined Agendashift which is an inclusive, non-prescriptive, values-based, and outcome-centric approach to continuous transformation supported by online, workshop, and coaching tools.
Retrospectives help teams to reflect, learn, and improve, if they are done in a good way. In this guest blog post Soumyajit Chakraborty, CEO at SoftProdigy, discusses agile retrospectives antipatterns to avoid.
De Agile Self-assessment Game is een kaartspel wat teams kunnen gebruiken om hun agility te verhogen. Marijke Vandermaesen speelde het spel met haar team in een retrospective en stuurde mij haar ervaringen die ik graag deel met jullie. Haar conclusie: "de game is een goed format voor een retro voor teams die pas starten en zoeken naar praktijken om op te nemen of meer ervaren teams die goed op elkaar ingespeeld zijn en zoeken naar de laatste puntjes om op de i te zetten".
Many agile coaches are looking for new innovative ways to help Scrum and Agile teams improve. They want to coach teams in a way that they can discover how they are doing and come up with ideas to become better and deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. The Agile Self-Assessment Game is a tool that helps them to do that. Andreas Schliep, Executive Partner at DasScrumTeam AG shared his experiences playing this game.
Here are some recently published books that I highly recommend on Executive Influence, Upside Down Improvement, and Agendashift.