I have been interviewed by Noopur Pathak for Innovation Roots about how I collaborated with my customer on my first project, doing agile when the Agile Manifesto wasn't invented yet, and later got more inspired by agile.
Several talks and workshops that I'm giving in the autumn have been announced: I'm doing sessions about Agile Retrospectives, Agile Self-assessments, and Dealing with Impediments at the Agile Greece Summit, Agile Cambridge, Lean Agile Scotland, Agile Day Bosnia, and Lean Kanban France.
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.
Here are some recently published books that I highly recommend on Executive Influence, Upside Down Improvement, and Agendashift.