The book No Estimates - How to measure project progress without estimating by Vasco Duarte from Oikosofy has been released. Three different packages are available: Only the book, the book with additional video interviews with #NoEstimates pioneers and an "all you can eat digital edition".
We can learn from failures, from our mistakes; that is something we all know. But we can also learn from things that go well. Here's an example of a team that explored how they succeeded in delivering their project on time against their expectation and used their learnings to improve, and a couple of techniques and exercises that you can use in retrospectives to learn from things that go well.
The workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives explains the “what” and “why” of retrospectives and the business value and benefits that they can bring. Public workshops are offered in London, Istanbul and Olomouc.
The Retrium tool for on-line retrospectives is a tool that makes retrospectives for distributed teams easy and effective. Team can use Retrium to reflect, learn and improve continuously.
In the impediment game people learn to recognize and analyse impediments and how to take appropriate action by deploying agile and lean good practices. I will play the impediment game with teams at the Agile Tour Brussels 2015 on November 2.
The presentation that I gave at the first Agile Greece Summit about "The Why, What and How of Agile Retrospectives"has been published.
To make Agile work organizations have to establish and develop self organizing teams. In many organizations, "command and control" management is a common practice when they start implementing agile practices. Coaching a team to become self organized can be a challenge for Scrum masters. Here are some tips for doing it.
The Leanpub bundle Agile Retrospectives offers four successful books on retrospectives with a significant discount. These books will help you to do amazing and effective agile retrospectives that teams love.
Teams can improve their way of working by exploring their strengths using a core qualities exercise in their agile retrospectives. The exercise described in this blog post, which is based on ideas from positive psychology and Solution Focused, helps team to become even better in things that they are great at. It enables them to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders.
Luis Gonçalves (co-author of our book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives) has invited me to his Scrum webinar series. I will be talking about deploying agile practices effectively, continuous improvement, agile retrospectives and much more.
I will be giving two workshops at the Agile Greece Summit in September, on Valuable Agile Retrospectives and Getting More out of Agile and Lean. There are still some tickets available, book your seat now!
When a client asks for a training session, most often the full content of the training is discussed and defined up front. With one client that wanted a week of training I took a different approach. The client an I used a backlog to prioritize training sessions and workshops. We only planned the first days, and reflected and adjusted the training every day of the week. This is a story of how I collaborated with a client in an agile way to ensure that they would get the biggest possible benefit out of a training week that I delivered to them.