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SUMMARY:Workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives
DESCRIPTION:Learn how you can facilitate retrospectives\, practice exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in retrospectives in the online workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives on August 31\, 2023. \nA one-day interactive workshop for €350 +VAT. \n \n \nFacilitating 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. \nFacilitating retrospectives can be hard. As a facilitator you need to: \n\nSet the stage where people get into a reflection and learning mode\nDo exercises that get people involved and bring out issues that the team wants to work on\nEstablish psychological safety for people to be open about what bothers them\nRecognize and deal with retrospective smells or anti-patterns when they happen\nGuide the team to come up with their vital few actions to make change happen\n\nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\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\nEstablishing psychological safety when people collaborate remotely is essential\, but can be hard to do\n\nIn the workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives\, we will practice leading 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 leading retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for in-person and distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in retrospectives and what can be done to keep people involved\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive online 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 two weeks 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\nThe below 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 spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-facilitating-effective-retrospectives-august-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives
DESCRIPTION:Learn how you can facilitate retrospectives\, practice exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in retrospectives in the online workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives on April 12\, 2023. \nA one-day interactive workshop for €350 +VAT. \n \n \nFacilitating 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. \nFacilitating retrospectives can be hard. As a facilitator you need to: \n\nSet the stage where people get into a reflection and learning mode\nDo exercises that get people involved and bring out issues that the team wants to work on\nEstablish psychological safety for people to be open about what bothers them\nRecognize and deal with retrospective smells or anti-patterns when they happen\nGuide the team to come up with their vital few actions to make change happen\n\nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\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\nEstablishing psychological safety when people collaborate remotely is essential\, but can be hard to do\n\nIn the workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives\, we will practice leading 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 leading retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for in-person and distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in retrospectives and what can be done to keep people involved\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive online 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 two weeks 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\nThe below 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 spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-facilitating-effective-retrospectives-april-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Retrospective Facilitators Gathering 2023
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, a group of us who are passionate about retrospective facilitation gather to share observations\, grow our skills and work out things that are puzzling us. It’s a small\, invitation-only gathering\, which provides opportunities for very focused and high-density learning\, not to mention a bit of fun and interaction with our peers. \nThe Retrospective Facilitators Gathering is a yearly Open Space conference by and for experienced practitioners in agile retrospectives. People from all over the world come to this gathering to share experiences and ideas and to learn from other facilitators. \nOver the years I’ve learned a lot at the RFGs that I attended. It’s great to be among peers who share their experiences. The open space format enables relevant topics to pop up\, both for group and one-to-one sessions. \nThis year the Retrospective Facilitators Gathering (RFG) will be near Prague\, Czech Republic. I’m attending it to share my upcoming book Valuable Agile Retrospectives\, learn new exercises and techniques\, and sharpen my facilitator and (retrospective) teaching skills. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/retrospective-facilitators-gathering-2023/
LOCATION:Golf Resort Konopiste\, Benesov\, Bystřice 27\, Bystřice\, 256 01\, Czech Republic
CATEGORIES:Conference,Czech Republic,Retrospectives Agility,Retrospectives Teams
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SUMMARY:Workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives
DESCRIPTION:Learn how you can facilitate retrospectives\, practice exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in retrospectives in the online workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives on February 9\, 2023. \nA one-day interactive workshop for €450. \n \n \nFacilitating 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. \nFacilitating retrospectives can be hard. As a facilitator you need to: \n\nSet the stage where people get into a reflection and learning mode\nDo exercises that get people involved and bring out issues that the team wants to work on\nEstablish psychological safety for people to be open about what bothers them\nRecognize and deal with retrospective smells or anti-patterns when they happen\nGuide the team to come up with their vital few actions to make change happen\n\nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\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\nEstablishing psychological safety when people collaborate remotely is essential\, but can be hard to do\n\nIn the workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives\, we will practice leading 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 leading retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for in-person and distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in retrospectives and what can be done to keep people involved\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive online 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 two weeks 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\nThe below 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 spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-facilitating-effective-retrospectives-february-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives
DESCRIPTION:Learn how you can facilitate retrospectives\, practice exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in retrospectives in the online workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives on December 15\, 2022. \nA one-day interactive workshop for €450. \n \n \nFacilitating 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. \nFacilitating retrospectives can be hard. As a facilitator you need to: \n\nSet the stage where people get into a reflection and learning mode\nDo exercises that get people involved and bring out issues that the team wants to work on\nEstablish psychological safety for people to be open about what bothers them\nRecognize and deal with retrospective smells or anti-patterns when they happen\nGuide the team to come up with their vital few actions to make change happen\n\nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\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\nEstablishing psychological safety when people collaborate remotely is essential\, but can be hard to do\n\nIn the workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives\, we will practice leading 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 leading retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for in-person and distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in retrospectives and what can be done to keep people involved\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive online 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 two weeks 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\nThe below 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 spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-facilitating-effective-retrospectives-december-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives
DESCRIPTION:Learn how you can facilitate retrospectives\, practice exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in retrospectives in the online workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives on October 17\, 2022. \nA one-day interactive workshop for €450. \n \n \nFacilitating 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. \nFacilitating retrospectives can be hard. As a facilitator you need to: \n\nSet the stage where people get into a reflection and learning mode\nDo exercises that get people involved and bring out issues that the team wants to work on\nEstablish psychological safety for people to be open about what bothers them\nRecognize and deal with retrospective smells or anti-patterns when they happen\nGuide the team to come up with their vital few actions to make change happen\n\nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\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\nEstablishing psychological safety when people collaborate remotely is essential\, but can be hard to do\n\nIn the workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives\, we will practice leading 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 leading retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for in-person and distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in retrospectives and what can be done to keep people involved\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive online 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 two weeks 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\nThe below 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 spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-facilitating-retrospectives-october-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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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 online workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives on June 16\, 2022. \nA one-day interactive workshop for €450. \n \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 online 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 two weeks 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 spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/facilitating-remote-retrospectives-june-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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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 online workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives on May 16\, 2022. \nA one-day interactive workshop for €450. \n \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 online 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 two weeks 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 spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/facilitating-remote-retrospectives-may-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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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 online workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives on March 31\, 2022. \nA one-day virtual workshop for €450. \n \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 online 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 two weeks 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-march-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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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 online workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives on November 30\, 2021. \nA one-day virtual workshop for €450. Early bird until November 1: €350. \n \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 online 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-november-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Agile Workshop Valuable Retrospectives for Teams at DevOpsCon Singapore
DESCRIPTION:Learn new exercises for your agile retrospectives\, find out how to create a safe environment\, and improve your facilitation skills in the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams at DevOpsCon Singapore.  \nThis workshop was originally planned for 2020. Will be given on November 24 as an online full-day workshop. \nValuable Retrospectives for Teams\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. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams you will practice exercises for facilitating retrospectives in teams. \nA great way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participating in retrospectives. In this workshop\, you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to facilitate retrospectives. You will learn the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value\, and the benefits that they can bring to your team. \nWho should attend this workshop\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nIn this workshop\, you will design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to become more agile and lean. \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives\n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run retrospectives\nSkills for facilitating retrospectives\n\nDevOpsCon Singapore\nThe Conference for Continuous Delivery\, Microservices\, Containers\, Clouds and Lean Business. \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/agile-workshop-valuable-retrospectives-for-teams-at-devopscon-singapore/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Singapore,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210504
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210505
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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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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 March 25\, 2021. \nSpecial price for World Retrospective Day (#WorldRetroDay ): €300 (Normal price is €450). \nA one-day workshop\, live online 2 pm-6 pm CET. \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). \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-mar-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,Retrospectives Teams,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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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 February 23\, 2021. \nEarly bird until Feb 13: €350. Normal price €450. \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). \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-feb-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,Retrospectives Teams,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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SUMMARY:World Retrospective Day 2020
DESCRIPTION:World Retrospective Day – March 26 – is a volunteer-based\, globally coordinated effort to share in the power of retrospectives. Registration for events is up at worldretrospectiveday.com/. \nTo celebrate World Retrospective Day you can download agile retrospectives book\, games\, and coaching tools with a discount: \nUse coupon “worldretroday” at benlinders.com/shop \nWorld Retrospectives Day\nWorld Retrospective Day is a community effort to introduce retrospectives as a tool for continuous improvement. \nIt aims to spread the word about the benefits of retrospectives! \nThis is the third year that we’re celebrating World Retrospective Day. \nDiscount for Better Retrospectives\nAs every year I’m giving a discount on the Agile Retrospectives Book\, Games\, & Coaching Tools in my webshop. You can use the coupon “worldretroday” to get 20% off. (Does not apply to training or corporate packages). \nSome of the most popular products are: \n\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	Digital Downloads\, eBooks\, Packages\, PaperbacksThe Agile Self-assessment Game – Book & Cards\n	€8.99 – €32.99Price range: €8.99 through €32.99 (Excl. VAT)\nRated 5.00 out of 5Select options	\n		This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page	\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	Digital DownloadsAgile Self-assessment Game – French edition\n	€8.99 (Excl. VAT)\nRated 4.50 out of 5Add to cart	\n			\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	Sale!\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	Digital DownloadsAgile Retrospectives Bingo\n	€10.99 Original price was: €10.99.€7.99Current price is: €7.99. (Excl. VAT)\nRated 5.00 out of 5Add to cart	\n			\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	Digital DownloadsAgile Manifesto Retrospectives Questions Cards\n	€9.99 (Excl. VAT)\nAdd to cart	\n			\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	eBooksGetting Value out of Agile Retrospectives (eBook)\n	€8.99 (Excl. VAT)\nAdd to cart	\n			\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	Digital DownloadsImpediment Board Game\n	€14.99 (Excl. VAT)\nRated 5.00 out of 5Add to cart	\n			\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	Digital DownloadsAgile Retrospective Smells Cards\n	€7.99 (Excl. VAT)\nRated 5.00 out of 5Add to cart	\n			\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	Digital DownloadsImpediment Coaching Cards\n	€7.99 (Excl. VAT)\nAdd to cart	\n			\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	Digital DownloadsAgile Quality Coaching Cards\n	€9.99 – €19.99Price range: €9.99 through €19.99 (Excl. VAT)\nRated 4.00 out of 5Select options	\n		This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page	\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	PaperbacksWaardevolle Agile Retrospectives (Paperback)\n	€15.03 (Excl. VAT)\nRated 4.94 out of 5Add to cart	\n			\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	eBooksWaardevolle Agile Retrospectives (eBook)\n	€8.99 (Excl. VAT)\nRated 5.00 out of 5Add to cart	\n			\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	Digital DownloadsAgile Manifest Retrospectives Vragen Kaarten\n	€9.99 (Excl. VAT)\nAdd to cart	\n			\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	Digital Downloads\, PackagesAgile Self-assessment Game & Expansion Packs – Polish editions\n	€1.99 – €9.99Price range: €1.99 through €9.99 (Excl. VAT)\nView products	\n			\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	Digital Downloads\, PackagesAgile Zelfevaluatie Kaarten & Uitbreidingssets – Nederlands\n	€1.99 – €9.99Price range: €1.99 through €9.99 (Excl. VAT)\nView products	\n			\n\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	\n	\n		 Quick View	\n\n	Digital Downloads\, PackagesAgile Self-assessment Game & Expansion Packs – Czech editions\n	€1.99 – €9.99Price range: €1.99 through €9.99 (Excl. VAT)\nView products	\n			\n\n\n\nUse coupon “worldretroday” in my webshop to get 20% off any Agile Coaching Tool – valid until April 13!\n 
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180912
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives in Prague
DESCRIPTION:Learn new exercises for your agile retrospectives\, find out how to create a safe environment\, and improve your facilitation skills in the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives in Prague on September 12! \nAdopting agile often doesn’t go as smoothly as expected in an organization. Becoming agile is a learning process which requires that you reflect regularly and adopt your way of working. Valuable Agile Retrospectives provide the solution for a successful agile adoption at all levels in the organization. \nRetrospectives help you to apply agile practices effectively. With Retrospectives teams and their stakeholders can continuously improve themselves to deliver more value. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nWhy 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. This workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nIn this workshop you will learn to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to become more agile and lean. \nRetrospective exercises\nThe best way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participate in retrospectives. In this interactive workshop you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them use a different kind of retrospective. You can choose from several retrospective exercises\, like: \n\nEffective questioning\nDealing with feelings in teams\nImproving using strengths with Solution Focused\nRoot cause analysis of problems\nImproving collaboration in projects\nAsking why?\n\nIn this workshop you will learn different exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives\, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring you\, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. \nApply and Improve\nTwo important conditions to make retrospectives valuable are to have clear goals (why do you do retrospectives) and experienced facilitators (Scrum Masters and / or Agile Coaches). \nIn this workshop you will learn how to adopt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to provide retrospective facilitators with a toolbox with retrospective exercises enabling them to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization! \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives\n\nUnderstanding of the why and how of continuous improvement and how retrospectives can contribute.\nKnow how to establish the pre-requirements for retrospectives and create safe environments to run a retrospectives.\nExercises for doing effective and efficient retrospectives.\nApproaches to deploy retrospectives and to improve their usage and results.\nHow to scale retrospectives in the organisation.\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nTrainer\nBen Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality and Continuous Improvement\, based in The Netherlands. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives & What Drives Quality. As an adviser\, coach and trainer he helps organizations by deploying effective software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement\, collaboration and communication\, and professional development\, to deliver business value to customers. Ben is an active member of networks on Agile\, Lean and Quality\, and a frequent speaker and writer. He shares his experience in a bilingual blog (Dutch and English)\, as an editor for Agile at InfoQ and as an expert on TechTarget.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-in-prague/
LOCATION:Aguarra Training Center Kladno\, Ulice Váňova 3180\, Kladno\, CZ-27201\, Czech Republic
CATEGORIES:Czech Republic,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180417
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Amsterdam
DESCRIPTION:Learn new exercises for your agile retrospectives\, find out how to create a safe environment\, and improve your facilitation skills in the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Amsterdam on April 17\, 2018! \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. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams you will practice exercises for facilitating retrospectives in teams. \nA great way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participating in retrospectives. In this workshop you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to facilitate retrospectives. You will learn the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value\, and benefits that they can bring to your team. \nWho should attend this workshop\nTwo important conditions to make retrospectives valuable are to have clear goals (why do you do retrospectives) and experienced facilitators (Scrum Masters and/or Agile Coaches). \nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nIn this workshop\, you will design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to become more agile and lean. \nRetrospective exercises\nIn this interactive workshop\, you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them uses a different kind of retrospective. We will choose from several retrospective exercises\, like: \n\nSetting your Agile Course with the Sail Boat Futurespective\nDealing with feelings in teams\nGetting Feedback with the Perfection Game \nMany Faces of Jack Sparrow\nConstellation\n…\n\nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives\n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what\, and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run retrospectives\nSkills for facilitating retrospectives\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nApply and Improve\nIn this workshop\, you will learn how to adapt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to provide retrospective facilitators with a toolbox with retrospective exercises enabling them to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization! \nTestimonials\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“Nice to join a workshop in which the attendees and teacher actually have profound hands-on experience with agile.”\n“Immersive\, good choice of subjects\, well led.”\n“A lot of examples.”\n“Good useful interactions and learning from other participants.” \nAttendees from a GOTO Amsterdam workshop \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 \nMore information\nPrice: €550\,- excl. VAT \nIncluded: \n\nFull day workshop\nLunch\nMaterials\nFree ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives or translated edition\nFree Lifetime Support\n\nThis workshop is done in collaboration with Trifork Amsterdam. Trifork is a leading full-service supplier of high-quality custom-built applications and end-to-end solutions\, and organizer of the GOTO conferences: the enterprise software development conference designed for team leads\, architects\, and project management organized by developers\, for developers. \nNote: This workshop will be given in English\, except when all attendees have a profound understanding of Dutch and agree that the workshop will be given in Dutch. All workshop materials are in English. \nRegistration\n\n\n \n\n\n\nName* \nAddress*\n \nPostal Code*\n \nCity* \nCountry*\n \nEmail* \nTelephone*\n \nPayment info (e.g. company name\, PO number) – added to invoice\n \nWhat do you expect to learn\n \nI have read and agree to conditions & cancellation policy (see below)*Yes\nNo\n \n\n\n\n\n€550\nQuantity\n\n\nAdd to cart \n\nConditions and cancellation policy\n– The workshop has to be paid in full before the workshop date.\n– Cancellation by the attendee is only allowed until one month before the workshop date.\n– If you cannot attend then a colleague can come instead (please inform me).\n– The workshop can be canceled by the organizer\, will be fully refunded. \nWhen you sign up and buy the workshop in this webshop you agree with these conditions \nIf you want to know more about this workshop or any other workshops or training sessions\, feel free to contact me. \n +31 6 2901 3863\n info@benlinders.com\n Ben Linders
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-for-teams-amsterdam-april-2018/
LOCATION:Trifork Amsterdam\, Rijnsburgstraat 9-11\, Amsterdam\, 1059 AT\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Netherlands,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Amsterdam
DESCRIPTION:Learn new exercises for your agile retrospectives\, find out how to create a safe environment\, and improve your facilitation skills in the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Amsterdam on February 14\, 2018! \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. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams you will practice exercises for facilitating retrospectives in teams. \nA great way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participating in retrospectives. In this workshop you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to facilitate retrospectives. You will learn the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring to your team. \nWho should attend this workshop\nTwo important conditions to make retrospectives valuable are to have clear goals (why do you do retrospectives) and experienced facilitators (Scrum Masters and/or Agile Coaches). \nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nIn this workshop\, you will design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to become more agile and lean. \nRetrospective exercises\nIn this interactive workshop\, you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them uses a different kind of retrospective. We will choose from several retrospective exercises\, like: \n\nSetting your Agile Course with the Sail Boat Futurespective\nDealing with feelings in teams\nGetting Feedback with the Perfection Game \nMany Faces of Jack Sparrow\nConstellation\n…\n\nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives\n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run retrospectives\nSkills for facilitating retrospectives\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nApply and Improve\nIn this workshop\, you will learn how to adopt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to provide retrospective facilitators with a toolbox with retrospective exercises enabling them to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization! \nTestimonials\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“Nice to join a workshop in which the attendees and teacher actually have profound hands-on experience with agile.”\n“Immersive\, good choice of subjects\, well led.”\n“A lot of examples.”\n“Good useful interactions and learning from other participants.” \nAttendees from a GOTO Amsterdam workshop \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 \nMore information\nPrice: €550\,- excl. VAT \nIncluded: \n\nFull day workshop\nLunch\nMaterials\nFree ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives or translated edition\nFree Lifetime Support\n\nThis workshop is done in collaboration with Trifork Amsterdam. Trifork is a leading full service supplier of high-quality custom-built applications and end-to-end solutions\, and organizer of the GOTO conferences: the enterprise software development conference designed for team leads\, architects\, and project management organized by developers\, for developers. \nNote: This workshop will be given in English\, except when all attendees have a profound understanding of Dutch and agree that the workshop will be given in Dutch. All workshop materials are in English. \nRegistration\n\n\n \n\n\n\nName* \nAddress*\n \nPostal Code*\n \nCity* \nCountry*\n \nEmail* \nTelephone*\n \nPayment info (e.g. company name\, PO number) – added to invoice\n \nWhat do you expect to learn\n \nI have read and agree to conditions & cancellation policy (see below)*Yes\nNo\n \n\n\n\n\n€550\nQuantity\n\n\nAdd to cart \n\nConditions and cancellation policy\n– The workshop has to be paid in full before the workshop date.\n– Cancellation by the attendee is only allowed until one month before the workshop date.\n– If you cannot attend then a colleague can come instead (please inform me).\n– The workshop can be canceled by the organizer\, will be fully refunded. \nWhen you sign up and buy the workshop in this webshop you agree with these conditions \nIf you want to know more about this workshop or any other workshops or training sessions\, feel free to contact me. \n +31 6 2901 3863\n info@benlinders.com\n Ben Linders
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-teams-amsterdam/
LOCATION:Trifork Amsterdam\, Rijnsburgstraat 9-11\, Amsterdam\, 1059 AT\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Netherlands,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Istanbul
DESCRIPTION:Learn new exercises for your agile retrospectives\, find out how to create a safe environment\, and improve your facilitation skills in the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Istanbul on February 1\, 2018! \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. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams you will practice exercises for facilitating retrospectives in teams. \nA great way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participating in retrospectives. In this workshop you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to facilitate retrospectives. You will learn the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring for your team. \nWho should attend this workshop\nThis workshop is intended for:\n• Retrospective facilitators\n• Agile coaches\n• Scrum masters\n• Team\, product or project managers\n• Anybody involved in retrospectives \nIn this workshop\, you will design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to become more agile and lean. \nRetrospective exercises\nIn this interactive workshop\, you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them uses a different kind of retrospective. \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives\n• Understanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\n• Practice different retrospective exercises\n• Know how to create a safe environment to run retrospectives\n• Skills for facilitating retrospectives \nAttendees of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nApply and Improve\nIn this workshop you will learn how to adopt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to provide retrospective facilitators with a toolbox with retrospective exercises enabling them to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization! \nDo you want to improve retrospectives at a project or  release level\, remote retrospectives\, or use retrospectives to drive continuous improvement? Then I recommend my workshop Increasing Agility with Retrospectives on February 2 in Istanbul. \nSign up\nI give this workshop in collaboration with Agile Mentor Academy\, a training provider for agile coaches\, teams\, and experts. Please sign up here.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-teams-istanbul-feb-1/
LOCATION:Agile Mentor Academy\, Istanbul\, Turkey
CATEGORIES:Retrospectives Teams,Turkey,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Istanbul
DESCRIPTION:Agile Retrospectives are essential for agile teams to continuously improve themselves. Retrospective facilitators need a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the right skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams  in Istanbul on November 24 you will try out different retrospective exercises and learn how to effectively facilitate retrospectives in agile teams. \nThe best way to learn how to do retrospectives is through experience: doing them yourself and participate in retrospectives. In this workshop you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox. You will learn the “why” and “how” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring for your teams. \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives: \n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run a retrospectives\nSkills for effectively facilitating retrospectives\n\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nScrum masters and other team members\nAgile coaches\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-teams-istanbul-2/
LOCATION:Agile Mentor Academy\, Istanbul\, Turkey
CATEGORIES:Retrospectives Teams,Turkey,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170601
DTSTAMP:20260416T083311
CREATED:20170427T154023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T110034Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Istanbul
DESCRIPTION:Agile Retrospectives are essential for agile teams to continuously improve themselves. Retrospective facilitators need a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the right skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams  in Istanbul on May 31 you will try out different retrospective exercises and learn how to effectively facilitate retrospectives in agile teams. \nThe best way to learn how to do retrospectives is through experience: doing them yourself and participate in retrospectives. In this workshop you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox. You will learn the “why” and “how” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring for your teams. \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives: \n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run a retrospectives\nSkills for effectively facilitating retrospectives\n\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nScrum masters and other team members\nAgile coaches\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-for-teams-in-istanbul/
LOCATION:Agile Mentor Academy\, Istanbul\, Turkey
CATEGORIES:Retrospectives Teams,Turkey,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170427
DTSTAMP:20260416T083311
CREATED:20170115T092339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T111039Z
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SUMMARY:Valuable Agile Retrospectives in Budapest 2017
DESCRIPTION:Practice retrospective exercises and develop skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives in the full day workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives in Budapest\, Hungary. \nAdopting agile often doesn’t go as smoothly as expected in an organization. Becoming agile is a learning process which requires that you reflect regularly and adopt your way of working. Valuable Agile Retrospectives provide the solution for a successful agile adoption at all levels in the organization. \nRetrospectives help you to apply agile practices effectively. With Retrospectives teams and their stakeholders can continuously improve themselves to deliver more value. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nWhy 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 \nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nIn this workshop you will learn to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to become more agile and lean. \nRetrospective exercises\nThe best way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participate in retrospectives. In this interactive workshop you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them use a different kind of retrospective. You can choose from several retrospective exercises\, like: \n\nEffective questioning\nDealing with feelings in teams\nImproving using strengths with Solution Focused\nRoot cause analysis of problems\nImproving collaboration in projects\nAsking why?\n\nIn this workshop you will learn different exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives\, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring you\, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. \nApply and Improve\nTwo important conditions to make retrospectives valuable are to have clear goals (why do you do retrospectives) and experienced facilitators (Scrum Masters and / or Agile Coaches). \nIn this workshop you will learn how to adopt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to provide retrospective facilitators with a toolbox with retrospective exercises enabling them to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization! \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives\n\nUnderstanding of the why and how of continuous improvement and how retrospectives can contribute\nKnow how to establish the pre-requirements for retrospectives and create safe environments to run a retrospectives\nExercises for doing effective and efficient retrospectives\nApproaches to deploy retrospectives and to improve their usage and results\nHow to scale retrospectives in the organisation\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/valuable-agile-retrospectives-budapest-2017/
LOCATION:Budapest\, Budapest\, Hungary
CATEGORIES:Hungary,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170328
DTSTAMP:20260416T083311
CREATED:20170114T084254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T111531Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives at Agile Management Congress 2017
DESCRIPTION:Practice retrospective exercises and develop skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives in the full day workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives at the Agile Management Congress. \nAdopting agile often doesn’t go as smoothly as expected in an organization. Becoming agile is a learning process which requires that you reflect regularly and adopt your way of working. Valuable Agile Retrospectives provide the solution for a successful agile adoption at all levels in the organization. \nRetrospectives help you to apply agile practices effectively. With Retrospectives teams and their stakeholders can continuously improve themselves to deliver more value. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nWhy 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 \nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nIn this workshop you will learn to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to become more agile and lean. \nRetrospective exercises\nThe best way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participate in retrospectives. In this interactive workshop you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them use a different kind of retrospective. You can choose from several retrospective exercises\, like: \n\nEffective questioning\nDealing with feelings in teams\nImproving using strengths with Solution Focused\nRoot cause analysis of problems\nImproving collaboration in projects\nAsking why?\n\nIn this workshop you will learn different exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives\, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring you\, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. \nApply and Improve\nTwo important conditions to make retrospectives valuable are to have clear goals (why do you do retrospectives) and experienced facilitators (Scrum Masters and / or Agile Coaches). \nIn this workshop you will learn how to adopt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to provide retrospective facilitators with a toolbox with retrospective exercises enabling them to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization! \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives\n\nUnderstanding of the why and how of continuous improvement and how retrospectives can contribute\nKnow how to establish the pre-requirements for retrospectives and create safe environments to run a retrospectives\nExercises for doing effective and efficient retrospectives\nApproaches to deploy retrospectives and to improve their usage and results\nHow to scale retrospectives in the organisation\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-agile-management-congress/
LOCATION:Clarion Congress Hotel Olomouc\, Jeremenkova 36\, Olomouc\, 77900\, Czech Republic
CATEGORIES:Czech Republic,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170309
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170310
DTSTAMP:20260416T083311
CREATED:20161128T203902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T111726Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams at QCon London 2017
DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to QCon London in 2017 to give a workshop on valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams on Thursday March 9. Use code tutRetrospectives to get £60 discount! \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. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams you will practice exercises for facilitating retrospectives in teams. \nThe best way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participating in retrospectives. In this workshop you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to facilitate retrospectives. You will learn the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring for your team. \nThis workshop is intended for\n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nKey takeaways\n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run a retrospectives\nSkills for facilitating retrospectives
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-teams-qcon-london-2017/
LOCATION:Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre\, Broad Sanctuary\, Westminster\, London\, England\, SW1P 3EE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Retrospectives Teams,UK,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161202
DTSTAMP:20260416T083311
CREATED:20160612T100407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T112429Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives\, Dec 1 in Kladno\, Czech Republic
DESCRIPTION:Come to my workshop on Dec 1 in Kladno (near Prague) to make your agile retrospectives valuable. You’ll learn the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives and practice exercises to develop your facilitation skills. \nAdopting agile often doesn’t go as smoothly as expected in an organization. Becoming agile is a learning process which requires that you reflect regularly and adopt your way of working. Valuable Agile Retrospectives provide the solution for a successful agile adoption at all levels in the organization. \nRetrospectives help you to apply agile practices effectively. With Retrospectives teams and their stakeholders can continuously improve themselves to deliver more value. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nWhy 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. This workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nIn this workshop you will learn to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to become more agile and lean. \nRetrospective exercises \nThe best way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participate in retrospectives. In this interactive workshop you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them use a different kind of retrospective. You can choose from several retrospective exercises\, like: \n\nEffective questioning\nDealing with feelings in teams\nImproving using strengths with Solution Focused\nRoot cause analysis of problems\nImproving collaboration in projects\nAsking why?\n\nIn this workshop you will learn different exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives\, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring you\, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. \nApply and Improve \nTwo important conditions to make retrospectives valuable are to have clear goals (why do you do retrospectives) and experienced facilitators (Scrum Masters and / or Agile Coaches). \nIn this workshop you will learn how to adopt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to provide retrospective facilitators with a toolbox with retrospective exercises enabling them to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization! \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives \n\nUnderstanding of the why and how of continuous improvement and how retrospectives can contribute.\nKnow how to establish the pre-requirements for retrospectives and create safe environments to run a retrospectives.\nExercises for doing effective and efficient retrospectives.\nApproaches to deploy retrospectives and to improve their usage and results.\nHow to scale retrospectives in the organisation.\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nThis workshop is done in collaboration with Aguarra\, the competence center for agile techniques and technology innovations in Czech Republic\, Slovakia and Hungary. It serves as a platform for experts\, who work on research and implementation of agile techniques. \nThis workshop is given twice in 2016: You can attend the workshop on November 1 or December 1 in Kladno\, Czech Republic. \nRegular Price: 480 EUR / 576 EUR . Price when ordering until 01. 09. 2016 : 440 EUR / 528 EUR.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-dec-1-kladno-czech-republic/
LOCATION:Aguarra Training Center Kladno\, Ulice Váňova 3180\, Kladno\, CZ-27201\, Czech Republic
CATEGORIES:Czech Republic,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161102
DTSTAMP:20260416T083311
CREATED:20160612T095316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T112655Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives\, Nov 1 in Kladno\, Czech Republic
DESCRIPTION:Come to my workshop on Nov 1 in Kladno (near Prague) to make your agile retrospectives valuable. You’ll learn the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives and practice exercises to develop your facilitation skills. \nAdopting agile often doesn’t go as smoothly as expected in an organization. Becoming agile is a learning process which requires that you reflect regularly and adopt your way of working. Valuable Agile Retrospectives provide the solution for a successful agile adoption at all levels in the organization. \nRetrospectives help you to apply agile practices effectively. With Retrospectives teams and their stakeholders can continuously improve themselves to deliver more value. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nWhy 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. This workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nIn this workshop you will learn to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to become more agile and lean. \nRetrospective exercises \nThe best way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participate in retrospectives. In this interactive workshop you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them use a different kind of retrospective. You can choose from several retrospective exercises\, like: \n\nEffective questioning\nDealing with feelings in teams\nImproving using strengths with Solution Focused\nRoot cause analysis of problems\nImproving collaboration in projects\nAsking why?\n\nIn this workshop you will learn different exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives\, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring you\, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. \nApply and Improve \nTwo important conditions to make retrospectives valuable are to have clear goals (why do you do retrospectives) and experienced facilitators (Scrum Masters and / or Agile Coaches). \nIn this workshop you will learn how to adopt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to provide retrospective facilitators with a toolbox with retrospective exercises enabling them to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization! \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives \n\nUnderstanding of the why and how of continuous improvement and how retrospectives can contribute.\nKnow how to establish the pre-requirements for retrospectives and create safe environments to run a retrospectives.\nExercises for doing effective and efficient retrospectives.\nApproaches to deploy retrospectives and to improve their usage and results.\nHow to scale retrospectives in the organisation.\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nThis workshop is done in collaboration with Aguarra\, the competence center for agile techniques and technology innovations in Czech Republic\, Slovakia and Hungary. It serves as a platform for experts\, who work on research and implementation of agile techniques. \nThis workshop is given twice in 2016: You can attend the workshop on November 1 or December 1 in Kladno\, Czech Republic. \nRegular price: Price: 480 EUR / 576 EUR . Price when ordering until 01. 09. 2016 : 440 EUR / 528 EUR.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-nov-1-kladno-czech-republic/
LOCATION:Aguarra Training Center Kladno\, Ulice Váňova 3180\, Kladno\, CZ-27201\, Czech Republic
CATEGORIES:Czech Republic,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161012
DTSTAMP:20260416T083311
CREATED:20160705T090249Z
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SUMMARY:Masterclass Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams at Agile Tour Kaunas 2016
DESCRIPTION:In this masterclass in Kaunas\, Lithuania you will practice different exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives\, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring you. \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. This masterclass provides a toolbox of retrospective exercises and teaches the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nWho should attend\n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nProgram objectives\nThe best way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participating in retrospectives. In this interactive workshop you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them uses a different kind of retrospective. \nYou will learn how to adopt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to provide retrospective facilitators with a toolbox with retrospective exercises enabling them to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization! \nLearning objectives: \n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run a retrospectives\nSkills for facilitating retrospectives\n\nMasterclasses by Ben Linders are highly interactive. You practice many exercises\, questions are taken when the arise and you learn both from the trainer and other attendees through sharing experiences. \nAgenda\n\nLearning Goals & Getting to Know Each Other\n“Why”\, “What” and “How” of Retrospectives\nPractice Exercise 1\nFacilitating Retrospectives\nPractice Exercise 2\nGetting Retrospective Actions Done\nPractice Exercise 3\nDesigning Valuable Retrospectives\nPractice Exercise 4\nQuestions and Wrap up\n\nThis workshop is organized in collaboration with Agile Lithuania. It can be combined with the Masterclass Getting More out of Agile and Lean on October 12. \nEarly bird price (till September 1st): 319 Eur (VAT not applicable)
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/masterclass-agile-retrospectives-kaunas/
LOCATION:Kaunas\, Kaunas\, Lithuania
CATEGORIES:Lithuania,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160916
DTSTAMP:20260416T083311
CREATED:20160527T073312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T113021Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams at Agile Greece Summit 2016
DESCRIPTION:Agile 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. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams you will practice exercises for facilitating retrospectives in teams. \nFull day workshop at the 2nd Agile Greece Summit \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. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams you will practice exercises for facilitating retrospectives in teams. \nThe best way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participating in retrospectives. In this workshop you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to facilitate retrospectives. You will learn the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring for your team. \nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nWorkshop outline \nIn this interactive workshop you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them uses a different kind of retrospective. You will learn how to adopt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to provide retrospective facilitators with a toolbox with retrospective exercises enabling them to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization! \nLearning outcomes \n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run a retrospectives\nSkills for facilitating retrospectives\n\nTarget Audience \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nTestimonials \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 \nThis workshop is held at the Agile Greece 2016 Summit in collaboration with agilegreec.org. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-retrospectives-greece-2016/
LOCATION:Cine Kerameikos\, Κεραμεικού 58 & Μαραθώνος\, Athens \, Greece
CATEGORIES:Greece,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160621
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160622
DTSTAMP:20260416T083311
CREATED:20160511T105536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T113931Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams\, Utrecht
DESCRIPTION:In this interactive workshop you can practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to facilitate agile retrospectives. You will learn the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring for your agile team. \nWho should attend this workshop \nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nYou will learn how to design and facilitate agile retrospectives that help (Scrum) teams and organizations to become more agile and lean. \nRetrospective exercises \nThis workshop helps you to practice retrospectives and develop your facilitation skills. You will do different kinds of retrospective\, using exercise like: \n\nSail Boat\nEffective questioning\nDealing with feelings in teams\nImproving using strengths with Solution Focused\nRoot cause analysis of problems\nGetting Feedback with the Perfection Game\n\nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives \nYou will learn in this workshop how to adopt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to use a toolbox with retrospective exercises to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization. \n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run a retrospectives\nSkills for facilitating retrospectives\n\nInvestment \nCost of this full-day workshop is €645\,- excluding VAT. This price includes all workshop materials and lunch. Early bird discount of 25%: €484\,- when registering before June 1! \nThere’s a 25% discount for every additional attendee from the same organization! Please indicate how many people will attend the workshop when subscribing. \nFree cancellation of the workshop is possible until two weeks before the workshop date. If you are not able to attend the workshop then a colleague may take your place. Please let me know who will attend. The workshop may be cancelled if there are insufficient participants. \nAttendees of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nSubscribe now! \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n	Attendee Details\n	\n	Name: \nEmail Address: \nCompany Name: \nTelephone Number: \nNumber of persons attending: \n\n	 \nΔ \n\n\n\nAbout the Trainer \nBen Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality and Continuous Improvement\, based in The Netherlands. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\, What Drives Quality and Continuous Improvement. \nAs an adviser\, coach and trainer he helps organizations to improve continuously by deploying effective software development and management practices. \nBen is recognized worldwide as an expert practitioner on Agile Retrospectives. He’s a well respected member of many networks and meetups on Agile Retrospectives and Continuous Improvement\, an invited (keynote) speaker at conferences and in-company events\, and a renowned trainer and author. \nTestimonials \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“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 \nAdditional information \n\nDetailed description workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams\nBook: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\nBoek: Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\n\nThis workshop is also given as a tutorial\, and as private in-house workshop tailored to the specific situation and needs of your company. Contact me if you want to discuss the possibilities. \nIf you want to know more about this workshop or any other workshops or training sessions\, feel free to contact me. \n +31 6 2901 3863\n info@benlinders.com\n Ben Linders \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-teams-utrecht/
LOCATION:Utrecht (TBA)\, Utrecht\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Netherlands,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Workshop Effective Agile Retrospectives\, Istanbul\, Turkey
DESCRIPTION:A full day workshop to learn how to improve the effectiveness of Agile Retrospectives in the beautiful city of Istanbul\, Turkey. \nIn this workshop you will learn different exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives\, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring you. \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. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams you will practice exercises for facilitating retrospectives in teams. \nThe best way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participating in retrospectives. In this workshop you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to facilitate retrospectives. You will learn the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring for your team. \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives \n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run a retrospectives\nSkills for facilitating retrospectives\n\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nThis workshop is done in collaboration with Agile Mentor Academy. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-effective-agile-retrospectives-istanbul-turkey/
LOCATION:Agile Mentor Academy\, Istanbul\, Turkey
CATEGORIES:Retrospectives Teams,Turkey,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Agile Mentor Academy":MAILTO:info@agilementoracademy.com
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