Continuous improvement requires that people reflect and find ways to do their work in a better way. Having diversity in agile teams makes it possible to discover and explore new ways of working, where uniform teams with identical kinds of people would aim for steadiness and don't want things to change. Let's explore how you diversity can enable continuous improvement using agile retrospectives.
In February 2016 I will be giving three workshops in Melbourne Australia, one on continuous improvement and two on agile retrospectives. The workshop are organized by Elabor8 who invited me to come to Australia: We are extremely excited to have Ben Linders over from Europe for a series of workshops in February. Ben is the co-author of "Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives"and is a regular keynote conference speaker (including Agile Greece Summit 2015 and QCon Beijing 2015). I will give the following workshops: Getting More out of Agile and Lean on Tuesday February 16 Valuable Agile Retrospectives (beginners) on Thursday February 18 Valuable Agile Retrospectives (advanced) on Friday February 19 The workshops are held in the Elabor8 offices at 455 Bourke Street. Level 7 , Melbourne, VIC 3000 AU, Australia. Ticket sale has started, you can register yourself at the Elabor8 Eventbrite events page.
The full version of the Russian edition Извлекаем пользу из Agile-ретроспектив has been released on Leanpub. With this release there are now 8 translated editions of the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives available. (more…)
When you're facing problems and feel that there's no room for improvement, the situation will only get worse. You're building up process debt, a debt that you will have to repay as soon as possible to prevent from going bankrupt. Let's explore how you can deal with process debt by taking a first step on a journey of continuous improvement to increase your agility.
I will do the full day tutorial Make Your Agile Retrospectives More Valuable at the Agile Practitioners conference in Tel Aviv on January 26. Ticket sales has started, click here to register. (more…)
The agile and lean tool agile/Scrum certification provides an overview of the most important agile and Scrum certifications that are being offered by different institutes. (more…)
My new book Continuous Improvement - Doing whatever helps to become better and thus more valuable is about increasing the awareness of continuous improvement and about how to improve in a sustainable way. It explores how improvement is engrained in agile, and provides suggestions that you can use in your daily work to improve continuously and increase your agility. Continuous improvement is what makes agile work. It's at the heart of agile: a mindset and a way of working where people always look for ways to do things better. Continuous Improvement is my third book. Earlier I published the books What Drives Quality and Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives. All of my books are available on Ben Linders' Leanpub page. Feedback on this new book is very much appreciated. Please sent your suggestions, comments, ideas or questions to [email protected]. Also feel free to contact me if you are interested to receive a review copy.
The slides from my recent talks on Agile Retrospectives have been published on slideshare: Spicing up Agile Retrospectives – Agile Tour London 2015 Why What and How of Agile Retrospectives – Agile Tour Lille 2015 Why what and how of Agile Retrospectives – Agile Greece Summit 2015 There's a page with Presentations by Ben Linders where you view and download the slides of all of my public talks and keynotes, from conferences, meetups, or other occasions. And there's also a page with Interviews with Ben Linders. Finally there's a list of my future public events, workshops and talks. If you want me to appear at your event, or have a need for advice, consultancy, training or workshops, then feel free to contact me. +31 6 2901 3863 [email protected] @BenLinders Ben Linders Ben Linders Consulting Tilburg, The Netherlands
In 1980 Philip Crosby wrote the book Quality is Free. In the book he explained how investing time and energy in building the right products with good quality will save money and time. Many agile teams know how important software quality is, but they need to convince their managers and other stakeholders to get there. It will help them to self-organize and do their work in a good way. Let's explore how you can sell that "quality is free" and build a business case for quality.
The Retrium blog published my blog post on facilitating effective agile retrospectives.
The successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives is being translated to many languages. We are starting up new teams and looking for people who want to help us translating our book to Turkish, Greek or Romanian. Will you help us?
The ebook Tirer profit des rétrospectives agiles is now offered with a 40% discount on leanpub. I will give a talk about doing valuable agile retrospectives at the Agile Tour Lille on October 15.