Feedback on the Agile Self-assessment Game
I'm currently updating the Agile Self-assessment Game and I need your help. Can you give me feedback?
I'm currently updating the Agile Self-assessment Game and I need your help. Can you give me feedback?
The book Liftoff by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies provides lot's of ideas to form (agile / Scrum) teams and get them started. It's a book that I highly recommend for anyone who works with teams: Scrum masters, agile coaches, and managers.
The 2017 State of Testing survey is investigating how the testing profession develops. It only takes 10 minutes to fill it in, so please join me for this worldwide survey on testing.
Agile suggests that teams should continuously deliver value to their customers and stakeholders. But to do that teams need to know what value is for their customers, and how to quantify it.
There are several great bundles with books on agile available on Leanpub. Such a bundle gives you multiple books on a specific topic for a reduced price.
Becoming agile is a journey of continuous improvement. To travel it well, you need to think about where you want to go and how to travel it. The backpacking retrospective exercise can be used by teams and organizations to visualize their path to agility and decide what they will take along on their journey.
I’m returning to QCon London in 2017 to give a workshop on Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams on Thursday March 9.
Here are some recently published books that I highly recommend on giving and receiving feedback, starting and scaling DevOps in the enterprise, the practice of System and Network Administration, and Large Scale Scrum: More with LeSS.
Warm-up exercises are used at the start of a retrospective to get teams ready to explore and learn. They set the stage for agile retrospectives by creating an atmosphere where team members can be open and honest about what has happened.
My article Facilitating Effective Agile Retrospectives is featured in the 2016 DZone Guide to Software Development Lifecycle: QA and Testing.
The Agile Self-Assessment Game helps teams to discover how agile they are and what you can do to increase their agility. I played this game at the XP Days Benelux conference. Here's how this went.
Valuable Agile Retrospectives are coming to Czech Republic! On December 1 I'm giving my successful workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives in Kladno (near Prague). There are some seats left for this workshop. Don't wait too long; register yourself on the Aguarra Agile Center of Excellence website.