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SUMMARY:Increasing Team Autonomy for Collaborative Problem-solving - Full day Tutorial at OOP 2025
DESCRIPTION:I will give the full-day tutorial Increasing Team Autonomy for Collaborative Problem-solving at OOP 2025 on Feb 3 in Munich\, Germany. \nBook your seat with a 15% discount with the voucher “OOP25_Linders” at OOP registration. \n \nOOP: The Conference for Software Architecture\nSoftware architects\, developers and IT project managers have been relying on OOP – the best-known and largest conference on all important software architecture topics in the German-speaking world – for their professional development for over 30 years. Why? This conference is the tried-and-tested meeting place for the software scene at the beginning of the year because it always succeeds in providing a state-of-the-art picture of current software development through cutting-edge and practical presentations. \n \nUse the voucher “OOP25_Linders” at OOP registration for a 15% discount \nFive days with more than 130 talks in up to 8 simultaneous tracks: OOP 2025 will once again offer the well-known high quality of presentations. \nIncreasing Team Autonomy for Collaborative Problem-solving\nAgile teams don’t want to depend on outside help to solve problems and deliver value. In this tutorial\, we will practice culture change through visualization exercises to increase team autonomy and agility and learn how to solve problems collaboratively inside teams by playing the Impediment Board Game. \nCulture matters! It can make or break things. Get people moving or inhibit them. Drive people toward results\, or drive them nuts. An agile culture is a foundation for an agile way of working and a successful agile journey\, it is a key factor that you need to work on. In the tutorial\, you will learn ways to visualize the existing culture and come up with ideas for culture change to increase agility. \nProblems that software teams have these days are complex. Team collaboration is essential to solve them. Gamification supports teamworking and helps teams exploit all team members’ knowledge and skills to solve problems collaboratively. We will play a game in the tutorial to recognize problems in the early stages and practice collaborative problem-solving. \nMaximum number of participants: 24 \nTarget Audience: Developer\, Architect\, Tech leads\, Project/Line Manager\, Agile Coach\nPrerequisites: None\nLevel: Advanced \nAbout the trainer\nBen Linders runs a one-person business in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement. Author of „Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives“\, „Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives“\, „What Drives Quality“\, „The Agile Self-assessment Game“\, „Problem? What Problem?“\, and „Continuous Improvement“. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools\, for example\, the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nBen is a well-known speaker and author; he is much respected for sharing his experiences and helping others share theirs. His books and games have been translated into more than 12 languages and are used by professionals in teams and organizations all around the world. \nAs a trainer\, facilitator\, coach\, and advisor\, he helps organizations with effectively deploying software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement\, collaboration and communication\, and professional development\, to deliver business value to customers. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/increasing-team-autonomy-collaborative-problem-solving-tutorial-oop-2025/
LOCATION:International Congress Center Munich\, Am Messesee 6\, Munich\, 81829\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Germany,Problem Solving,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Problem-solving and keynote on Gamification at DevOpsCon Singapore 2024
DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to DevOpsCon Singapore to give the workshop Fostering an Agile Culture for Effective Problem Solving and a keynote on Improving Agile Development and Operations With Gamification. Join me on November 25-28. \n \nWorkshop Fostering an Agile Culture for Effective Problem Solving\nPractice culture change\, learn how to increase team autonomy and morale for effective problem-solving\, and explore retrospectives to increase business agility in this interactive workshop. \nAdopting agile often doesn’t live up to its promise of delivering better products fast at lower costs. The missing ingredients that cause failure have to do with an insufficient agile mindset and difficulties in changing to a culture of agile thinking and acting. An agile culture is the foundation for a collaborative way of working and business agility\, it is a key factor that you need to work on. \nIn this workshop\, we’ll explore how organizations can visualize their culture. We learn how organizations can foster a mindset and culture change toward agility and how they can apply agile DevOps practices and capabilities to deliver value frequently and fast. \nWe’ll explore how team autonomy and morale can be increased by playing the Agile Impediment Board Game. Using gamification we’ll practice effective collaborative problem-solving techniques. \nFinally\, we’ll see how agile retrospectives can be used to establish continuous improvement with effective communication and collaboration\, to increase the agility of teams and the organization. \nAttendees get free downloadable copies of the Culture Cards\, Impediment Board Game\, and ebook Problem? What Problem? (value $40). \nGamify It Until You Make It: Improving Agile Development and Operations With Gamification\nSo many challenges\, so little time. While we’re busy developing software and keeping it operational\, we also 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 keynote\, Ben Linders will show how playing games with the DevOps coaching cards can help to explore your current development and deployment (DevOps) practices and decide as a team what to improve or experiment with. The games that we play are based on an engagement model. Instead of imposing change\, the games enable people to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits their collective needs. \nBy playing games\, you can learn from each other. Teams can use games\, exercises\, and coaching cards to discuss values\, principles\, and practices\, and share their experiences and learnings. Different game formats can be used to share experiences on DevOps principles and practices and explore how they can be applied effectively. This presentation provides an overview of playing formats and will inspire you to come up with your own formats. \nDevOpsCon Singapore\nDevOps is fundamentally changing the IT world and sets the path for successful business transformation. Join DevOpsCon to learn about the latest tools. \nHow do cloud platforms\, microservices\, and Kubernetes play together with comprehensive automation and continuous delivery? How can you handle increasing complexity in your organization? \nAt DevOpsCon\, you will meet internationally recognized thought leaders of the DevOps movement and benefit from their expertise.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-problem-solving-talk-gamification-devopscon-singapore-2024/
LOCATION:Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Center\, 1 Raffles Blvd\, Singapore\, 039593\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Conference,Problem Solving,Singapore,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221122
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SUMMARY:Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices - Full-day Tutorial at Agile Testing Days 2022
DESCRIPTION:This year I’m giving a full-day tutorial on Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices at Agile Testing Days. Join me November 21 to learn how you can handle impediments effectively and faster and practice your problem-solving skills. \n \nProblem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\n \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. Learn in this Problem-solving workshop how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems using agile thinking and practices. \nTeams need to deal with impediments as they slow them down or block the delivery of products. 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. \nAgile can help to identify problems\, it tends to bring problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. Teams 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. \nIn 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. \nYou will practice: \n\nRecognizing signals of problems\, and creating safety in teams (and beyond) for people to bring up problems\nAnalyzing problems\, for example by using causal analysis\, Cynefin\, serious games\, 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\nPreventing problems using quality techniques like code walkthrough/reviews\, pairing\, CI/CD Using coaching and games to improve collaboration and develop problem-solving skills\n\nThis workshop is intended for Agile Team\, Tech lead\, Scrum master\, Product Owner\, Project/Line Manager\, Agile and Lean Coach. \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\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. \nAgile Testing Days\nThe Agile Testing Days Conference is a festival for the agile community. Network & get deep insights in testing & agile excellence. \nThe event is now one of the world’s leading software testing conferences and continues to set new standards with its innovative session formats and diverse speaker line up.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/problem-solving-with-agile-thinking-and-practices-full-day-tutorial-at-agile-testing-days-2022/
LOCATION:Dorint Sanssouci Berlin/Potsdam\, Jägerallee 20\, Potsdam\,  14469\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference,Germany,Problem Solving,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210331T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210331T180000
DTSTAMP:20260416T193111
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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 March 31\, 2021\, for the live online workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until March 19: €350. \nThis workshop is part of the March 2021 Agile Training Week. \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 March 31\,  2 pm – 6 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-march-31-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Problem Solving,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210311T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210311T130000
DTSTAMP:20260416T193111
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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 March 11\, 2021\, for the live online workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices. \nProblem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until February 28: €350. \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 provide 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\, where we pick 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. \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-march-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Problem Solving,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210213
DTSTAMP:20260416T193111
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SUMMARY:OOP 2021
DESCRIPTION:In 2021 I’m back at OOP conference\, doing a mini-workshop on collaborative problem-solving. Join me online\, February 8-12\, 2021. \n \nProblem? What Problem? Practice Collaborative Problem-solving\nWorking in teams we face problems in our daily work. As a team\, we should be able to solve problems collaboratively. Agile calls these problems impediments. \nImpediments can be something in the way of working\, processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They can also be something cultural or structural. \nIn this mini-workshop\, we’ll practice solving an impediment as a team. Next\, we’ll explore how we solved it\, how we worked together. What hindered and helped us. We’ll learn what we can do to collaborate better. \nTarget Audience: Scrum masters\, tech leads\, agile coaches\, consultants\, developers\, testers\, managers\, CxOs\nPrerequisites: Some experience of working in teams\nLevel: Advanced \nExtended Abstract:\nThis is a hands-on mini-workshop about collaborative problem-solving. It will be an interactive session where people work together to solve a problem in a kind of role-play. Next\, we’ll explore the behaviors that arose\, focusing on what helps and hinders collaboration. \nI’ll kick it off by presenting problem-solving techniques and tips for collaborative problem-solving and dealing with impediments. \nDuring the session\, we’ll split up into groups using breakout rooms. In each group\, a part of the attendees will do a role play where they work on a problem\, where others will be observing how this goes. If time permits\, we’ll rotate solving two impediments. \nNext\, the observers will share what they saw happening where the group discusses this. \nBEN LINDERS \nBen Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement. As an adviser\, trainer\, and coach\, he helps organizations with effectively deploying software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement\, collaboration and communication\, and professional development\, to deliver business value to customers. \nBen is an active member of networks on Agile\, Lean\, and Quality\, and a well-known speaker and author. \nOOP conference\nOn February 8 – 12\, the OOP conference will take place digitally for the first time under the motto “Back To The Future”! \nExperience the OOP with all its known & proven formats\, practice-oriented program content and interactive exchange in the comfort of your home or home office. \nWe are happy to present you the tracks for 2021. From Modern Enterprise Architecture to DevOps\, DDD\, Testing & Quality and Business Agility\, you are sure to find exactly what suits your professional challenges!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/oop-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices - Live Online
DESCRIPTION:I’m doing an interactive online workshop where you can practice your problem-solving skills and learn how to deal with agile impediments. Join me on January 27\, 2021\, for this live online workshop. \n\n \nProblem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until January 10: €350. \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. \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. \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. \nIn 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\, where we pick 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\nTogether 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. \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 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-with-agile-thinking-and-practices-live-online/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Problem Solving,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110
DTSTAMP:20260416T193111
CREATED:20200708T060008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200926T094508Z
UID:42402-1604880000-1604966399@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices
DESCRIPTION:Teams need to deal with impediments as they slow them down or block the delivery of products. Find out how you can handle impediments effectively and faster and practice your problem-solving skills in my virtual workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices on November 9.\n \nFull-day workshop for €450. Early bird until October 9: €350. \nTo sign up: Please contact me by email: benlinders@gmail.com \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. \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. \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. \nIn 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 (and beyond) for people to bring up problems\nAnalyzing problems\, for example by using causal analysis\, Cynefin\, serious games\, 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\nPreventing problems using quality techniques like code walkthrough/reviews\, pairing\, CI/CD\nUsing coaching and games to improve collaboration and develop problem-solving skills\n\nAudience\nAgile Team\, Tech lead\, Scrum master\, Product Owner\, Project/Line Manager\, Agile and Lean Coach \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. \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\nNote\nThis workshop was previously an onsite training in Potsdam in collaboration with Agile Testing Days. This conference has become online-only without workshops. Giving the interest that people have shown in my workshop\, I decided to turn it into a virtual training where people can attend worldwide. \nContact me by email to sign up: benlinders@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-problem-solving-with-agile-thinking-and-practices-online/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Problem Solving,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191205
DTSTAMP:20260416T193111
CREATED:20190704T103901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200209T134024Z
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SUMMARY:DevOpsCon Munich 2019
DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to DevOpsCon to talk about Organizational Agility: Taking Retrospectives to the Next Level and do a mini-workshop on Impediments. Join me in Munich on December 2-4\, 2019. \nOrganizational Agility: Taking Retrospectives to the Next Level\nNowadays many agile teams are doing retrospectives regularly. They are investing time to reflect\, learn\, and take action to improve their way of working and deal with problems that they are facing in a structural way. \nOrganizations are seeing the benefits from this: teams that are becoming empowered\, being able to deliver more value\, happy employees\, and fewer people leaving the organization. \nIt’s time to take retrospectives to a higher level\, and use them to reveal and solve systemic organizational problems. Problems that exist at a project or product level\, are related to the collaboration between teams and their stakeholders. Agile Retrospectives can be used to do that\, but you need a different approach. \nIn this session\, Ben Linders will show how we can use retrospectives to improve the agility of organizations. \nHe will explore: \n\nHow we can actively involve external stakeholders into the team retrospectives\nWhat can be done to focus retrospectives on end-to-end goals and organizational-wide collaboration\nHow to do multi-team retrospectives at the project\, product\, or system level\nHow to create transparency on the targets and show how teams contribute to them in retrospectives\nHow to assist teams in self-assessing their agility\n\nThe Impediment Board Game\nProblem? What Problem? Learn how to deal effectively with Impediments \nIf your organization wants to become agile and lean\, teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. Playing the Impediment Board Game\, you will practice how to recognize and analyze impediments\, understand how they hinder teams\, and decide what to do by deploying agile and lean principles and good practices. You’ll learn to become more effective by recognizing impediments early and get rid of them before they become a major issue. \nThe impediment game teaches you the five steps for handling impediments effectively: \n\nrecognize and analyze impediments\nfind out how they hinder the team\nfind effective solutions to deal with them\ndecide what to do and who can do it\nlearn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments\n\nAgile coaches use the Impediment Board Game in agile transformations to coach teams and help them to become self-organized and empowered to solve any impediments that they might face on their agile journey. Come play the Impediment Board Game! \nDevOpsCon\nThe Conference for Continuous Delivery\, Microservices\, Containers\, Cloud & Lean Business. \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.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/devopscon-munich-2019/
LOCATION:Hilton Hotel Munich Park\, Am Tucherpark 7\, Munich\, 80538\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference,Germany,Problem Solving,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="S&S Media":MAILTO:info@sandsmedia.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191126
DTSTAMP:20260416T193111
CREATED:20191005T121253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200209T134046Z
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SUMMARY:Agile Management Congress 2019
DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to the Agile Management Congress in Prague on Nov 25 to do a mini-workshop on Dealing with Impediments and a full-day workshop Improving Organizational Agility on Nov 26. \nProblem? What problem? Learn how to deal effectively with impediments.\nIf your organization wants to become agile and lean\, teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. \nPlaying the Impediment Board Game\, you will practice how to recognize and analyze impediments\, understand how they hinder teams\, and decide what to do by deploying agile and lean principles and good practices. You’ll learn to become more effective by recognizing impediments early and get rid of them before they become a major issue. \nThe impediment game teaches you the five steps for handling impediments effectively:\n– recognize and analyze impediments\n– find out how they hinder the team\n– find effective solutions to deal with them\n– decide what to do and who can do it\n– learn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments \nAgile coaches use the Impediment Board Game in agile transformations to coach teams and help them to become self-organized and empowered to solve any impediments that they might face on their agile journey. \nCome play the impediment board game! \nAgile Management Congress\nAgile Management Congress (AMC) is a forum and learning platform on agile management for knowledge-based organizations. \nWe have a mission to address management innovators – game changers and innovative leaders from companies\, consultancies and academia\, who are trying to build humancentric and alternative organizational arrangements to opposing vertical corporate bureaucracies\, to share their practical transformational experience and learn from each other. Working in a small groups\, through series of practical mini workshops\, case studies\, moderated discussions and group work with peers they may gain better inside into how agility can help them transform their business or daily routine. It is place of learning from gurus\, sharing knowledge with peers\, gain new inspiration and ideas with active engagement of the participants! This is not a place to sit\, listen and get entertained. Along the day we will encourage intensive networking in a safe environment we provide. \nTo ensure intensive group learning\, only 40 seats is available. We will encourage delegates from different industries and different cultural context through different geographical origins and limit numbers of tickets for a single organization or region. Diversity matter. \nThe main topic for 2019 is “INSTITUTIONAL INVERSION FOR AGILE ENTERPRISE”. \nImplementing Agile into organization begins with the change of mindset\, company culture and with the definition of success for operations differently. The difference\, however\, conflict with general perceptions of the industry in today’s world\, how an organization should be managed and how management should behave. What are the experiences of those who crossed the abyss? \nWe plan to cover topics like: \n\nbuilding an agile culture\, dealing with (internal) issues\,\ndealing with stakeholders – employees\, customers\, investors\npeople engagement and workplace design\,\nrole of management in an agile organization\,\nrecruitment for agility\, growth of human capital selecting vs. growing people\,\ncross-industry experience and inspirational managerial techniques\,\nremuneration for the agile era\,\nalternative financial instruments for “control” and forecasting\,\nHR aspects of agility\, selecting vs. growing people\, strategies\,\nand more.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-management-congress-2019/
LOCATION:Prague\, Prague\, Czech Republic
CATEGORIES:Conference,Czech Republic,Problem Solving,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190523
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190525
DTSTAMP:20260416T193111
CREATED:20190215T071628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200209T211010Z
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SUMMARY:ACE! 2019
DESCRIPTION:At ACE! 2019 I’m doing a mini-workshop where you can practice effective techniques for dealing with impediments. \nProblem? What Problem? – Getting rid of impediments quickly and effectively\nIf your organization wants to become agile and lean\, your teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. In this game\, you will practice how to recognize and analyze impediments\, understand how they can hinder your team\, and decide what can be done and who can take appropriate action by deploying agile and lean principles and good practices. \nAn agile way of working doesn’t guarantee that there will be no problems. Most probably there will be; working agile will make them surface. Agile teams need skills to deal with impediments to be effective and be able to deliver and satisfy the needs of their customers and stakeholders. Agile teams are self-organized\, nobody will solve their problems for them. They can decide how they want to do their work. Having the authority to decide comes with a responsibility: you have to solve problems that the team is facing. You cannot rely on management to solve them for you. That may sound like a disadvantage\, but it actually is an advantage since you are allowed to solve them in a way that is most suitable and effective for you. \nThe impediment game that we will play in this session will teach you the five steps for handling impediments effectively: \n\nrecognizing impediments\nunderstanding how they are hindering the team\nfind effective solutions to deal with them\ndecide what to do and who can do it\nlearn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments\n\nThe steps suggest that they have to be done after each other\, which is often preferred in most situations. But this is not a waterfall process. \nUsually\, the steps take little time\, you can go through all steps within an hour (for instance by doing a retrospective) or in less time (e.g. doing the steps during your daily stand-up). If you are stuck in one step you can decide to proceed to the next one\, but then be prepared to go back and repeat the steps once you have more information. \nWant to attend ACE? Ask me for a discount code! \nIncreasing Agility with Retrospectives\nOn the 22nd of May\, I’m giving a full day Master Class at ACE!: Learn to achieve agility through retrospectives. Ticket sales has started.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/ace-2019/
LOCATION:Multikino Kraków\, Dobrego Pasterza 128\, Krakow\, 30-962\, Poland
CATEGORIES:Conference,Poland,Problem Solving
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190314
DTSTAMP:20260416T193111
CREATED:20181121T181849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T192436Z
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SUMMARY:Lean and Agile ME Summit 2019
DESCRIPTION:I will be doing a mini-workshop on dealing with impediments at the Lean and Agile ME Summit 2019 in Dubai\, United Arab Emirates\, on March 13. \n\nWorkshop: Problem? What problem?\n\n\n\n\nIf your organization wants to become agile and lean\, teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. \nPlaying the impediment game\, you will practice how to recognize and analyze impediments\, understand how they hinder teams\, and decide what to do by deploying agile and lean principles and good practices. You’ll learn to become more effective by recognizing impediments early and get rid of them before they become a major issue. \nThe impediment game teaches you the five steps for handling impediments effectively: \n\nrecognize and analyze impediments\nfind out how they hinder the team\nfind effective solutions to deal with them\ndecide what to do and who can do it\nlearn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments\n\nBenefits for attendees: \n\nrecognize impediments and understand how they hinder teams\ndeploy agile and lean practices to deal with them\nlearn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments\n\nCome play the impediment game! \n\n\n\nLean and Agile ME Summit\nFrom the conference website: \nThe advent of digital disruption pushed nearly every industry to rethink their value proposition in digital era. This transformation from traditional paradigm to digital paradigm requires a major shift in the way organizations generate value and conduct business. To succeed in this era of fast pace and ever changing expectations\, industries have to focus on Transformation\, Leadership\, Software Development Lifecycle and Academia to produce future leaders.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/lean-and-agile-me-summit-2019/
LOCATION:Hilton Dubai Jumeirah Resort\, The Walk\, Dubai\, 00000\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Conference,Problem Solving,United Aram Emirates,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181130
DTSTAMP:20260416T193111
CREATED:20180926T083755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200209T211109Z
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SUMMARY:XP Days Benelux 2018
DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to XP Days Benelux in 2018 to play the impediment game in “Problem? What Problem?” on November 29 in Heeze\, The Netherlands. \nXP Days Benelux\nXP Days is a two-day conference on agile software development for and by practitioners. Over the years I’ve done several workshops and presentations at the XP Days Benelux\, it is one of my favorite agile conferences. \nProblem? What Problem?\nIf your organization wants to become agile and lean\, your teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. \nIn this game\, you will practice how to recognize and analyze impediments\, understand how they can hinder your team\, and decide what can be done and who can take appropriate action by deploying agile and lean principles and good practices. \nAn agile way of working doesn’t guarantee that there will be no problems. Most probably there will be; working agile will make them surface. Agile teams need skills to deal with impediments to be effective and be able to deliver and satisfy the needs of their customers and stakeholders. \nAgile teams are self-organized\, nobody will solve their problems for them. They can decide how they want to do their work. Having the authority to decide comes with a responsibility: you have to solve problems that the team is facing. You cannot rely on management to solve them for you. That may sound like a disadvantage\, but it actually is an advantage since you are allowed to solve them in a way that is most suitable and effective for you. \nThe impediment game that we will play in this session will teach you the five steps for handling impediments effectively: \n\nrecognizing impediments\nunderstanding how they are hindering the team\nfind effective solutions to deal with them\ndecide what to do and who can do it\nlearn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments\n\nThe steps suggest that they have to be done after each other\, which is often preferred in most situations. But this is not a waterfall process. Usually\, the steps take little time\, you can go through all steps within an hour (for instance by doing a retrospective) or in less time (e.g. doing the steps during your daily stand-up). If you are stuck in one step you can decide to proceed to the next one\, but then be prepared to go back and repeat the steps once you have more information. \nBenefits for attendees: \n\nrecognize impediments and understand how they can hinder the team\ndeploy agile and lean practices to deal with them\nlearn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments\n\nCome to play the impediment game!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/xp-days-benelux-2018/
LOCATION:Kapellerput Conference Hotel\, Somerenseweg 100\, Heeze\, 5591 TN\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Netherlands,Problem Solving,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171201
DTSTAMP:20260416T193111
CREATED:20170806T203712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200222T114850Z
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SUMMARY:Impediment Game at Lean Kanban France 2017
DESCRIPTION:I will be playing the impediment game at Lean Kanban France 2017. Also doing a full day workshop on November 28: Getting More out of Agile and Lean. \nIf you want to become agile and lean\, teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. The Impediments Game teaches you to recognize and analyze impediment and to take appropriate action by deploying agile and lean good practices. \nImpediment Game\nIn this game\, you will become a team which has been working together for a couple of iterations. The game can be played by 1-4 teams simultaneously. Each team will have Scrum master and a Product Owner. \nThe game consists of a deck of impediment cards\, a list of agile and lean good practices\, and an impediment board. This game has Lean/Kanban cards and supports Lean/Kanban thinking to solve problems. \nDuring the game\, the teams will be coached in understanding impediments and selecting and deploying good practices to take action. \nBenefits for attendees : \n\nrecognize impediments and understand how they can hinder the team\ndeploy agile and lean practices to deal with them\nlearn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/impediment-game-lean-kanban-france-2017/
LOCATION:MAS (Maison des Associations)\, 10/18 rue des Terres au Curé\, Paris\, 75013\, France
CATEGORIES:Conference,France,More Agile and Lean,Problem Solving
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171022
DTSTAMP:20260416T193111
CREATED:20170809T092009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200209T211302Z
UID:17526-1508544000-1508630399@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Dealing Effectively with Impediments at Bosnia Agile Day 2017
DESCRIPTION:Bosnia Agile Day is a one-day event that brings world-wide Agile Evangelists\, leading Agile experts\, practitioners and innovators together to share their experiences\, expertise\, enthusiasm and knowledge. \nMini-workshop: Dealing Effectively with Impediments\nIf you want to become agile and lean\, teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. The Agile Impediments Game teaches you to recognize and analyze impediment and to take appropriate action by deploying agile and lean good practices. \nIn this game\, you will become a team which has been working together for a couple of iterations. The game can be played by 1-4 teams simultaneously. Each team will have Scrum master and a Product Owner. \nThe game consists of a deck of impediment cards\, a list of agile and lean good practices\, and an impediment board. During the game\, the teams will be coached in understanding impediments and selecting and deploying good practices to take action. \nBenefits for attendees : \n\nrecognize impediments and understand how they can hinder the team\ndeploy agile and lean practices to deal with them\nlearn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/dealing-effectively-impediments-bosnia-agile-day-2017/
CATEGORIES:Bosnia,Conference,More Agile and Lean,Problem Solving,Workshop
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