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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210614
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SUMMARY:Agile workshop: Problem Solving with the right mindset and good Practices
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to deal effectively and faster with impediments and improve your problem-solving skills in the workshop Problems-Solving with the right mindset and good Practices on June 14\, 2021. \n \nProblem Solving with the right mindset and Good Practices\nImpediments can be something in the way of working\, be it processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They slow down teams or block the delivery of products or services. Agile can help to identify problems\, it tends to bring problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. \nTeams will face problems in their daily work. Agile calls these problems impediments. Teams need to be able to deal with impediments as they have an impact on the flow of work\, they are problems that reduce outputs and results. \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provide solutions for addressing them. Learn in this Problem-solving workshop how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems using agile thinking and practices. \nKey learnings\n\nBecome able to create a blameless culture where signals are spotted more easily and problems are brought up sooner\nDevelop your skills for analyzing problems to get a deep understanding\nExplore ways to take action and follow up to remove problems or mitigate the impact\nLearn how to collaboratively deal with impediments in your team and organization\nExplore ways to prevent problems from happening again in the future\n\nIntended audience\nAgile Team\, Tech lead\, Scrum master\, Product Owner\, Project/Line Manager\, Agile and Lean Coach. \nDevOpsCon Berlin\nThe Conference for Continuous Delivery\, Microservices\, Containers\, Cloud & Lean Business – Berlin or Online. \nDevOps is fundamentally changing the IT world and sets the path for successful business transformation. Join DevOpsCon to learn about the latest tools\, technologies\, and methodologies for building and maintaining secure\, scalable\, and resilient software systems. \nHow do cloud platforms\, microservices\, and Kubernetes play together with comprehensive automation and continuous delivery? How can you handle increasing complexity in your organization and empower high-performance teams with the right tools and agile methodologies? DevOpsCon provides plenty of answers. \nAt DevOpsCon\, you will meet internationally recognized thought leaders of the DevOps movement and benefit from their expertise. Attend inspiring sessions and in-depth workshops to learn what you need to push your DevOps skills to the next level. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-workshop-problem-solving-mindset-practices/
LOCATION:Mercure Hotel MOA Berlin\, Stephanstraße 41\, Berlin\, 10559\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Germany,online,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210519
DTSTAMP:20260507T141658
CREATED:20210215T112714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210511T104940Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices – Live Online
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can practice your problem-solving skills and learn how to deal with agile impediments. Join me on May 18\, 2021\, for the live online workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until May 9: €350. \n \nProblem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\nTeams will face problems in their daily work. Agile calls these problems impediments. Impediments can be something in the way of working\, be it processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They slow down teams or block the delivery of products or services. \nTeams need to be able to deal with impediments as they have an impact on the flow of work\, they are problems that reduce outputs and results. \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. In the workshop Problems Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\, you will learn how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems effectively and faster using agile thinking and practices. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nRecognizing signals of problems\, and creating safety in teams for people to bring up problems\nAnalyzing problems picking one technique: causal analysis\, blameless post-mortems\, retrospectives\, swarming\, or blocker analysis\nManaging impediments using techniques from Lean & Kanban; decide how to solve them and who should be involved\nUsing coaching and games to improve collaboration and develop problem-solving skills\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore how to handle impediments effectively and faster and practice our problem-solving skills. \nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome able to create a blameless culture where signals are spotted more easily and problems are brought up sooner\nDevelop your skills for analyzing problems to get a deep understanding\nExplore ways to take action and follow up to remove problems or mitigate the impact\nLearn how to collaboratively deal with impediments in your team and organization\nExplore ways to prevent problems from happening again in the future\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop on May 18\,  9 am – 1 pm CEST. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in the exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAttendees of this workshop will get a free ebook copy of Problem? What problem? – Dealing Effectively with Impediments using Agile Thinking with Problem-solving Practices and a downloadable copy of the Impediment Board Game (value €30). \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-problem-solving-agile-thinking-practices-may/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210513
DTSTAMP:20260507T141658
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T082909Z
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SUMMARY:Improving Your Quality and Testing Skills with Gamification @ Online Testing Conference
DESCRIPTION:For the first time\, I’m doing a session at the Online Testing Conference. I’ll be playing games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards to help people explore how things are going and to improve their way of working. \nImproving Your Quality and Testing Skills with Gamification\nSo many challenges\, so little time. As testers we need to sharpen the saw\, but how? Gamification can be a way to look at how you’re doing and find out where to improve. It’s a great way to have everyone involved and get the best out of people. \nIn this presentation\, Ben Linders will play games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards to show how you can explore your current quality and testing practice and decide in your team on what to improve or experiment with. \nPlayers can use the coaching cards to discuss quality and testing values\, principles\, and practices. In teams\, people can use the cards to share their experiences and learnings. \nDifferent game formats can be used to share experiences on testing and quality principles and practices and explore how they can be applied effectively. \nTakeaways \n\nShow how to use gamification to self-assess your current way of working.\nPlay games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards.\nExplore how to facilitate games to enhance quality and testing in agile teams.\n\nOnline Testing Conference\n\n\nOnlineTestConf was the first 100% online conference to provide all the advantages of attending professional QA related conferences: personal learning\, networking etc. without the shortcomings of scheduling\, expenses and travel. The conference has been running for the past 5 years on a semi-annual basis\, long before COVID-19 forced all live events online. \nOur next event will be our 10th OnlineTestConf! Conference attendees are from all parts of the world\, we host well known speakers as well as young presenters\, and discuss everything that relates to Testing and QA. Attendance is and will remain free of charge and we invite anyone who sees themselves involved in testing and the testing community to join.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/improving-quality-testing-skills-gamification-online-testing-conference/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210506T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210506T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T141658
CREATED:20210408T100220Z
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SUMMARY:How Agile Are You? Let’s Play the Agile Self-assessment Game @ Agile Humans Lean Coffee!
DESCRIPTION:I’ve been invited to the Agile Humans Lean Coffee meetup to facilitate a session where we play the Agile Self-assessment Game online. Join me on May 6: Book your seat at Agile Humans Lean Coffee. \nHow Agile Are You?\nLet’s get together and play the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nDuring this meetup\, Ben Linders will show how gamification enables you to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits your collective needs. We’ll be playing with the Agile Self-assessment Cards to find out how this works. There’s also time for questions on agile adoption\, transformations\, and self-assessments. \nIt is a serious cooperative card game\, an agile ”compass & map”. \nJoin us and find out: \n– Where you are on your agile journey and get inspired with ideas and suggestions on where to go next. \n– What you can do to increase your agility to deliver more value to your customers and stakeholders. \nYou can play with the self-assessment cards in agile retrospectives\, or use the cards to set up a team or explore how things are going in your team. Games can be played with cards in co-located and distributed teams; there are many different playing formats available and you can design your own online game format using digital card images. \nAgile Humans Lean Coffee\nThis is a group for anyone interested in Agile organizational culture and agile practices. \nAgile Humans Lean Coffee is committed to improving the quality and quantity of the first Agile manifesto value: Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools. \nWe help each other improve our work by teaching each other what we’ve learned through practice. \nInitially\, our meetup group used to gather the local agile community in Serbia\, but now we have become international – our meetups are online and the communication is in English. We have monthly practitioner-driven talks\, every first Thursday at 6.30 pm.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/how-agile-are-you-play-agile-self-assessment-game-agile-humans-meetup/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Meetup,online
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210508
DTSTAMP:20260507T141658
CREATED:20210314T104008Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Develop Better Products with Agile - Live Online
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to develop better products using agile practices to understand your customers\, develop iteratively\, deliver faster with better quality\, and get valuable product feedback on May 6-7\, 2021! \nA two-day workshop for €750. Early bird until April 30: €600. \nThis workshop is part of the May 2021 Agile Training Week. Contact me via email to buy a combi-ticket for 2 or 3 workshops with a 25% or 40% discount! \nDevelop Better Products with Agile\nMany teams are adopting an agile way of working\, for instance with Scrum. Their expectation is that agile will help them to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs\, be more flexible\, and deliver faster. Unfortunately\, it doesn’t always work that way. Working in teams and collaborating with your customers to get feedback is hard. It’s not about doing Scrum\, it’s about effectively using agile practices to deliver value faster. \nIn the workshop Develop Better Products with Agile you will practice agile and learn how to apply it effectively: \n\nPractice understanding and prioritizing customer’s needs.\nWork in small teams to develop products iteratively.\nLearn to gather valuable feedback with product reviews and demos.\nSee how to improve your way of working with agile retrospectives.\nFind out how to effectively apply agile practices with an agile mindset.\n\nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you deliver the right products faster. \nIf your team(s) are \n\nfinding it difficult to understand your customer’s needs to decide on what to deliver when\nnot delivering working software or not able to finish user stories within a reasonable time\nnot getting feedback from customers and unsure if you are delivering value to your customers\nhaving difficulties communicating and working together as a self-organized team\ndoing agile/Scrum/Kanban rituals but feeling that they are not always helpful\nhaving difficulty to reflect and learn and get good actions out of your retrospective\n\nthen this is the workshop for you! \nLearning by Doing\nThe practices that you will be using in the workshop Develop Better Products with Agile will help you to develop the right products for your business and customers\, reduce your delivery time\, increase the quality of your software products\, and become a collaborative high-performing team. \nYou will practice: \n\nCommunicating with customers to build a backlog and slice it into small product pieces to deliver\nPrioritize delivery using criteria like value\, risk\, learning\, debt\, dependencies\, etc\nCollaborating remotely to create products\nDoing demo and feedback sessions to find out what customers think of your product\nFacilitating retrospectives to learn and improve product development skills\n\nAudience\nThe workshop Develop Better Products with Agile is intended for: \n\n(Senior) Developers\, Architects\, UI/UX designers\, and Testers\nProduct Owners/managers\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProject/Line Managers\n(Business) Stakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in increasing their performance\n\nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome better at understanding what your customers really need\nSkills for prioritizing product development to deliver more value faster\nAbility to do product reviews/demos to get valuable feedback\nWays to reflect and learn to increase the performance of your teams\n\nPractical information\nTwo-day\, four-hour per day interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in the exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-develop-better-products-agile-live-online-may-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Making Agile Work,online,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210504
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210505
DTSTAMP:20260507T141658
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210412T173955Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives - Live Online
DESCRIPTION:Learn how you can run remote retrospectives\, practice online exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in distributed retrospectives in the workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives on May 4\, 2021. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until April 30: €350. \n \nThis workshop is part of the May 2021 Agile Training Week. Contact me via email to buy a combi-ticket for 2 or 3 workshops with a 25% or 40% discount! \n \nFacilitating Remote Retrospectives\nAgile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting at the end of each iteration to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions in the next iteration. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\nRecognizing and dealing with retrospective smells or anti-patterns is hard in online meetings (but it can be done!)\nIt’s more difficult to foster productive and collaborative behavior and keep everyone involved during the meeting\nNot physically being together calls for different retrospective exercises or innovative ways to do exercises online\nPsychological safety is a key issue in any retrospective\, it’s more challenging when people collaborate remotely\n\nIn the workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives\, we will practice doing remote retrospectives while fostering psychological safety using exercises that keep people involved. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective Facilitators\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile Teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nAnybody who is involved in agile retrospectives\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to get more value from doing remote agile retrospectives. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore unproductive behavior in retrospectives and learn to recognize retrospective smells or anti-patterns\nDevelop your facilitation skills for running remote retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in online meetings and what can be done to keep people involved\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAll attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Bingo\, and a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Smells Cards. (value €30). \n \nTestimonials\nBelow testimonials come from the many workshops on agile retrospectives that I have done over the years. \n“The workshop presented in a clear way why retrospectives are the driving force to an organization which wants to improve. Using some playful exercises I learned several easy ways to extract the current status of the team and how to decide which should be the next steps to address potential problems and risks” \nNikolaos Raptis – Scrum Master – Software Developer at Scytl Secure Electronic Voting \n“I got a better understanding of retrospectives and many ideas on how to use them in my work. I can suggest this workshop to anyone that wants to go agile.  Also thanks for the reading material\, I found it very helpful.” \nBill Souliotis – Manager Software Research & Development Graphics User Interface at BETA CAE Systems \n“After working together for many years\, our team (myself included) grew out of the need for formal retrospectives. This workshop helped to get some fresh ideas that can refuel our retros and stressed some key points about the necessity and importance of facilitation in these events.” \nYorgos Saslis – Solution Design Executive at CytechMobile.com \n“I’d like to thank you again for your excellent workshop. It was fun and I already started using some of the ideas with my team. The change is definitely notable.” \nLiran Ben-Porat\, qSpark LTD \n“Thanks once again for a wonderful workshop! We have a lot of useful outputs which we are going to implement. And thanks for the free copy of your book about the retrospectives\, now we are able to go through the topics once again and do the exercises in our company.” \nJakub Grós\, Project Engineer at Honeywell \n“I found the workshop very useful. We’ve already started to experiment with some action items we gave ourselves in the workshop\, doing changes in our overall retrospective approach. We are also trying out cross facilitation\, having our retrospectives facilitated by a Scrum master of another team.” \nSimona Humpolová\, Scrum master at EmbedIT \nI have taken some of my Scrum masters to Ben’s retrospective training. I like the training very much\, and also his website which contains many retro techniques. I still use this as a reference when I coach people. \nZoltán Ludányi\, Agile Software Development Consultant \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/facilitating-remote-retrospectives-may-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210504
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SUMMARY:Workshop Self-assessing your Agility – Live Online
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you learn how to assess your agility using gamification and take the next steps on your agile journey: Join me on May 3 for this live online workshop. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until April 30: €350. \nThis workshop is part of the May 2021 Agile Training Week. Contact me via email to buy a combi-ticket for 2 or 3 workshops with a 25% or 40% discount! \n \n \nSelf-assessing your Agility\nIn the workshop Self-assessing your Agility\, you will practice games and exercises to explore how agile your teams are. \nWe’ll be playing The Agile Self-Assessment Game\, a serious game used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing this game enables professionals to reflect on collaboration and team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. With this game\, they can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nNext\, you’ll learn how to create an “agile map” that inspires you with ideas for increasing your agility and provides suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. \nIn this workshop\, you will experience different playing formats of The Agile Self-assessment Game. You’ll hear about the importance of pre-selecting cards to create focused card decks and find out about different exercises that can be used to self-assess and play your agile journey. \nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you to increase your agility. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to explore your way of working and take the next steps on your agile journey. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore what agile and agility means and the benefits that they can bring\nUnderstand the power of engagement and invitation-based agile adoption approaches\nExperience how you can self-assess the agility of teams and organizations\nPlay the Agile Self-assessment Game using different playing formats and card decks\nLearn ways for planning and traveling your own agile journey\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can play the games and get fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nThe workshop Assessing your Agility is based on the Agile Self-assessment Game. All attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the Agile Self-Assessment Game and the ebook ‘The Agile Self-assessment Game’ (value €30). \n \nTestimonials\nThis is what people say who played the Agile Self-assessment Game: \nThe cards help to get the team out of the daily work and daily mindset. \nThis is a wonderful way to get your team talking about how they are “being” agile! \nThe game really did add value and I got some real insight into the thoughts of people. \nBen’s Agile Assessment game is easy to adopt and easy for teams to pick up. \nWe realized our agile maturity level\, recognized actionable improvements and had great fun and insights! \nPlaying the game builds clarity and alignment on what Agile means to everyone on the team and helps team members meaningfully evaluate their agility. \nIt’s a great tool to use for a retrospective. \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-assessing-agility-live-online-may/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,online,Workshop
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