Building a new team can be challenging. People have to learn and get to know each other, and agree upon how they will be collaborating as a team. Retrospective exercises can be used for chartering teams, to define shared goals, agree upon the way of working, and start off properly.
I'm giving training sessions, workshops, and masterclasses on Agile Retrospectives in Athens, Kaunas and Kladno in the fourth quarter of 2016. These are part of the successful Valuable Agile Retrospectives Program and based on my bestseller Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives. Tickets are available, get yours now before they sell out!
I will be at GOTO Berlin again this year. As a speaker I'm giving you a discount of €150 on your conference ticket. Just register your ticket for GOTO Berlin with the promo code Lind150 and you're all set!
Is There a Need For Agile Manifesto 2.0? That's the question that Kamlesh Ravlani, Agile / Lean Coach and Scrum Trainer, is asking the Agile community. He is running a Survey on Agile Manifesto 2.0, which he announced on LinkedIn Pulse.
A new chapter which explores how visual management can be used to improve quality of software products has been added to my second book What Drives Quality. The book What Drives Quality is available for a reduced price on Leanpub as long as it's under development.
Becoming agile can help to achieve organizational goals. But setting agile as a goal for an organization does not work. The goal for a software organization should be to achieve results by delivering valuable products and services, not to become agile. Hence my question: do you know why do you want to become agile?
All of the books that I have published on Leanpub are now available in a bundle: Books by Ben Linders. You get a 30% discount when you buy my books.
I'm giving two masterclasses at Agile Tour Kaunas on October 11 and 12 on Retrospectives and on Agile and Lean. Tickets for these agile workshops can be bought on the Agile Tour Lithuania courses webpage.
The book More Fearless Change by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising provides ideas for driving change in organizations, using the format of patterns. Here’s a set of 15 quotes from the new patterns that have been added in More Fearless Change.
A new bundle of books with agile practices and tips has been released on Leanpub. Buy these books with a 40% discount! The bundle includes six great books from eleven authors, helping you to make your agile journey easier to travel, more successful, and fun!
The successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives has been translated in many languages. The leanpub bundle Valuable Agile Retrospectives - All Languages contains all language editions, you can get 9 books for the reduced price of $24,99 (excluding VAT).
As a trainer, (keynote) presenter, editor for InfoQ, and agile networker I go to conferences all around the world during the year. They are all different, each one has it's own strong points. Now I'd like to hear from you: What's your favorite agile conference? Please share your favorite agile conference by commenting on this post.