I gave two well received talks at Agile Tour Beirut, one about how to become a better Scrum master and one on doing valuable agile retrospectives to continuously increase your agility. The slides of these talks can be downloaded from my presentations page.
In the opening keynote at Agile Tour Kaunas I presented the need for continuous improvement in agile. I explained why we need to uncover better ways to continuously improve, and how agile helps us doing that to deliver more value.
Servant leadership alone is not enough, Scrum masters need to know a variety of leadership styles to support agile teams and help them to deliver value.
I will give two talk on October 15 at Agile Tour Beirut, one about how to become a better Scrum master and one on valuable retrospectives.
My successful blog post "Why do you want to become agile?" has been translated to German: Warum wollen Sie eigentlich agil werden?
The book Managing for Happiness by Jurgen Appelo gives you many practices, games, and tools that you can use to manage organizations effectively and make work fun.
The agile and lean tool Agile Self-assessments provides 55+ checklists, tools and articles that you can use to self-assess your agility.
I will give a keynote on the need for continuous improvement on October 13 at Agile Tour Kaunas, the biggest event about agile project management and information systems development in Lithuania.
To deliver high-quality products to customers, Agile teams and product owners have to jointly ensure the quality of the requirements and manage them effectively. Agile quality practices have to be ingrained in the team’s daily work.
Since the manifesto for agile software development hasn't changed since it's publication in 2001, the question arises if the Agile Manifesto needs an update. I think it should be updated to reflect what has been accomplished with agile and to state what the software industry needs now.
I’m giving training sessions, workshops, and masterclasses on Agile and Lean in Athens, Kaunas, Berlin and Kladno in the fourth quarter of 2016. These are part of the successful workshop series Getting More out of Agile and Lean.
The XP Days program committee has accepted my workshop “Agile Self-Assessment Game” for the XP Days Benelux 2016 conference. How cool is that!