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SUMMARY:QCon London 2025
DESCRIPTION:Again I’m attending QCon London as a dedicated reporter for InfoQ. Attend QCon to uncover how senior software developers at early adopter companies are adopting emerging trends. \n \nQCon London\nWe’ve helped thousands of senior software engineers\, software architects and tech leaders adopt the right patterns & practices for over 18 years. \nQCon London brought to you by the makers of QCon and InfoQ \nWe’ve been helping software development teams adopt new technologies and practices for over 18 years. The driving force behind every QCon conference is our passion to accelerate the software side of human progress. \nSenior software developers rely on QCon and InfoQ to keep ahead of the adoption curve. One of the main reasons senior software engineers\, software architects and team leads tell us they keep coming back to QCon and InfoQ is because they trust the information provided and selected by their peers. Join a global professional engineering community and adopt the right software innovations and practices.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/qcon-london-2025/
LOCATION:Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre\, Broad Sanctuary\, Westminster\, London\, England\, SW1P 3EE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference,UK
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SUMMARY:QCon London 2024
DESCRIPTION:I’m attending QCon London 2024 as an InfoQ editor. It’s a conference with curated learning set by senior software leaders\, with real-world technical talks from software leaders at early adopter companies. \nQCon London\nQCon is an international software development conference for senior software engineers\, software architects\, and team leaders. \nQCon focuses on emerging software trends and innovations in software development and technical leadership with all talks by software domain experts. Our Programming Committee identifies the key trends and creates a curated learning journey by selecting leading software practitioners to deep-dive on each topic. \nSessions are composed of keynotes from world-class practitioners\, tech talks with leading authorities\, Q&As\, and an opportunity to engage with peers to help answer your questions. You’ll gain actionable ideas that you can take back to your team and implement right away. \nAt QCon\, we prefer Engineers over Evangelists\, Practitioners over Trainers/Coaches\, and Team Leads over Consultants. That is not to say we don’t find value on the people on the right\, we just prefer those on the left. This simple mantra guides our editorial content. We want to hear from the people who are living with decisions and implementations. This is core to what makes QCon QCon. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/qcon-london-2024/
LOCATION:Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre\, Broad Sanctuary\, Westminster\, London\, England\, SW1P 3EE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference,UK
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SUMMARY:Aginext Global 2022
DESCRIPTION:At Aginext 2022 we will explore how games can be used to establish strong distributed teams. Join me April 28 online\, live\, in spatial chat! \nHow to start up a distributed team online with gamification\nRemote first is becoming the norm\, and this is also true for new teams. Where you would previously organize one or more onsite kick-off sessions to start a new team\, a new distributed team would have to be working online together from day 1. \nTechniques used for team chartering might still be useful\, but they would need a different approach for online working. Gamification\, incentifying people’s engagement by using game-style principles and practices\, can help you to build strong teams. \nIn this session\, we’ll look at several tools and playing formats that can be used to start up distributed teams and foster further development. \nAginext\nAginext continues to be the only conference dedicated to Advanced Business Agility themes\, DevOps and Continuous Delivery\, and what’s coming in a Post-Agile Age. We aim to be on the edge with advanced discussions and workshops that really immerse you in the future of collaboration meets speed. Let’s experiment and share experiences together. \nBoth days are completely live and built for optimal interaction. \nAginext is all about community. Our events boast great speaker-to-attendee ratio to foster intimate interactions and forward-thinking\, problem-solving conversations. After purchasing tickets to any event\, you will be invited to our Slack community which will help you network ahead and continue the conversation after.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/aginext-global-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Self-assessments and Fostering an Agile Culture at DevOpsCon London 2022
DESCRIPTION:I’ll be doing a workshop and a session at DevOpsCon London 2022: Fostering an Agile Culture and Getting People Engaged into Agile with Self-Assessments. \nDevOpsCon London is a hybrid conference with attendees on-site and remote joining sessions. I will give live demos of the games\, exercises\, and coaching tools\, followed by a Q&A. \nWorkshop Fostering an Agile Culture\nMany DevOps transformations do not live up to the agile promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. The missing ingredients in transformations that fail often have to do with an insufficient agile mindset and difficulties in changing to a culture of DevOps thinking and acting. An agile delivery culture is a foundation for a DevOps journey\, it is a key success factor that you need to work on. \nIn this workshop\, we’ll explore how organizations can visualize their culture and self-assess their DevOps agility. We learn about how organizations can foster a mindset and culture change toward DevOps and how they are applying DevOps capabilities to deliver value frequently and fast. \nNext\, we’ll explore how team autonomy and morale can be increased by playing the Agile Impediment Board Game. Finally\, we’ll see how agile retrospectives can be used to establish continuous improvement with effective communication and collaboration\, to keep your DevOps journey going in the right direction. \nMain takeaways \n\nLearn how to visualize your existing Agile DevOps culture and see the need for culture change\nShare DevOps strengths and challenges to explore what can be done to foster an agile delivery culture\nExperience how gamification can be used to improve teams in dealing with impediments\nPractice retrospective techniques to reflect and find ways to improve your DevOps delivery mindset and pipelines\n\nGetting People Engaged into Agile with Self-Assessments\nImposing agile doesn’t work! Let’s explore how we can use engagement models and gamification to involve people in the change process and help them define and travel their own agile journey. We will play the Agile Self-Assessment Game to experience how to enable people to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits their needs. \nMany agile “transformations” are failing\, where one of the main reasons is how they are imposing agile models and practices on people. Such an approach conflicts with the agile values and principles\, it’s incongruent and hence ineffective. \nEngagement models take a different approach\, they involve people in the change process and help them to define and travel their own agile journey. \nPlaying the Agile Self-Assessment Game enables teams to reflect on their own team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. With this card game\, they can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nJoin us to explore the Agile Self-Assessment Game and try out different playing scenarios. \nRetrospecting your Retrospectives – Cancelled due to workshop on April 26\nAre your retrospective meetings not helping teams to improve? Same actions coming up every time? Do people skip them\, or find them boring? Is there a lack of energy in the room? There’s no need for that! Let’s retrospect your retrospectives! \nThis session provides you with ideas to debug your agile retrospectives to find out when and why they aren’t working and learn how to spice them up and make them valuable again. \nIn this mini-workshop\, you will experience how to use retrospective exercises to debug your retrospective meetings. People will work in teams to reflect how their retrospectives are going and will learn what they can do to make them valuable again. \nIt’s a highly interactive session\, learning by doing. I’ll bring in my experience from 19 years of doing agile retrospectives\, and will set a culture where people will share their ideas and learn. \nDevOpsCon London\nEvery year in April\, DevOps Conference London is the go-to event for DevOps enthusiasts. \nThis year\, too\, we look forward to meeting you again! \nBecause we want to ensure that the lively exchange of knowledge and ideas so typical of DevOps London continues to work well\, we were one of the first in the conference industry to develop our hybrid concept. \nYou can choose to “attend” the conference either on site or online from your home or office. In order to be accessible to all participants\, all DevOps tracks will be streamed live. Using professional video technology\, all lectures and workshops will be broadcast live. And that’s not all: You can also get in touch with our speakers and expo partners\, even if you won’t be there! \nOf course\, the necessary hygiene and distance measures will be taken care of in the conference hotel. For this purpose\, we carefully monitor the number of participants. \nAs you can see – thanks to the innovative program and the numerous networking opportunities\, the upcoming DevOps London will provide the ideal framework for your continuing education. Whether on site in London or digitally – the choice is yours! \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/self-assessments-retrospectives-devopscon-london-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,online,UK,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Psychological Safety: Panel at Agile Tour London 2021
DESCRIPTION:I’ve been invited to the panel discussion about psychological safety versus accountability at Agile Tour London on October 21. \n \nPsychological Safety vs. Accountability\nWe’re thrilled to announce the other panel for this year’s event: PsychologicalSafety vs Accountability\, served up over a #livestream with Gitte Klitgaard\, Andrea Dobson\, Leanne Creasey\, Han Cork\, and Ben Linders. \nThis discussion was inspired by our last event where some of the Container Solutions team facilitated a popular workshop on striking this crucial balance. What questions do you want us to ask? \nOr why not ask them yourself at this year’s #Agile Tour London #ATLDN\, our quirky 100% live event! https://lnkd.in/gXVqRnX \nIt will be a 45-minute livestreamed panel discussed (questions welcome in our Zoom chat!) followed by 15 minutes of unrecorded discussion to close out our 100% LIVE and Online two-day event. \nCan’t make it? Our two panels are the only part of our event shared live elsewhere. This panel on cultivating #PsychologicalWellbeing in your teams will be also streamed on our YouTube channel 12pm UK\, kicking off our event\, Thursday 21 October\, so do SUBSCRIBE! https://lnkd.in/dpDWs5rF \nAgile Tour London\nAs Agile enters its 20s\, it’s time we stop looking at it as a team-based or department-based activity\, or something just for IT. It is a collective mindset that must see us break down walls and work together towards organisational agility. It’s time to recognise each business has three pillars — people\, business and technology — and that organisations will topple without focusing on all three working together toward shared objectives. \nIn its ninth year\, Agile Tour London will continue to expand our own goals around breaking silos and increasing communication. And as we’ve done with the last four unique online events\, it will be completely LIVE and intentionally interactive\, with keynotes\, panels and talks recorded in Zoom Meeting\, and all workshops\, after-talk discussions and networking activities unrecorded in our self-organised virtual venue Spatial.Chat. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/psychological-safety-panel-at-agile-tour-london-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,online,Panel,UK
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SUMMARY:Workshop Self-assessing your Agility – Live Online
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you learn how to assess your agility using gamification and take the next steps on your agile journey: Join me on April 1 for this live online workshop. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until March 19: €350. \nThis workshop is part of the March 2021 Agile Training Week. \n \nSelf-assessing your Agility\nIn the workshop Self-assessing your Agility\, you will practice games and exercises to explore how agile your teams are. \nWe’ll be playing The Agile Self-Assessment Game\, a serious game used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing this game enables professionals to reflect on collaboration and team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. With this game\, they can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nNext\, you’ll learn how to create an “agile map” that inspires you with ideas for increasing your agility and provides suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. \nIn this workshop\, you will experience different playing formats of The Agile Self-assessment Game. You’ll hear about the importance of pre-selecting cards to create focused card decks and find out about different exercises that can be used to self-assess and play your agile journey. \nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you to increase your agility. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to explore your way of working and take the next steps on your agile journey. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore what agile and agility means and the benefits that they can bring\nUnderstand the power of engagement and invitation-based agile adoption approaches\nExperience how you can self-assess the agility of teams and organizations\nPlay the Agile Self-assessment Game using different playing formats and card decks\nLearn ways for planning and traveling your own agile journey\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can play the games and get fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nThe workshop Assessing your Agility is based on the Agile Self-assessment Game. All attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the Agile Self-Assessment Game and the ebook ‘The Agile Self-assessment Game’ (value €30). \nTestimonials\nThis is what people say who played the Agile Self-assessment Game: \nThe cards help to get the team out of the daily work and daily mindset. \nThis is a wonderful way to get your team talking about how they are “being” agile! \nThe game really did add value and I got some real insight into the thoughts of people. \nBen’s Agile Assessment game is easy to adopt and easy for teams to pick up. \nWe realized our agile maturity level\, recognized actionable improvements and had great fun and insights! \nPlaying the game builds clarity and alignment on what Agile means to everyone on the team and helps team members meaningfully evaluate their agility. \nIt’s a great tool to use for a retrospective. \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-assessing-agility-live-online-march-20212-2/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices – Live Online
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can practice your problem-solving skills and learn how to deal with agile impediments. Join me on March 31\, 2021\, for the live online workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until March 19: €350. \nThis workshop is part of the March 2021 Agile Training Week. \nProblem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\nTeams will face problems in their daily work. Agile calls these problems impediments. Impediments can be something in the way of working\, be it processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They slow down teams or block the delivery of products or services. \nTeams need to be able to deal with impediments as they have an impact on the flow of work\, they are problems that reduce outputs and results. \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. In the workshop Problems Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\, you will learn how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems effectively and faster using agile thinking and practices. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nRecognizing signals of problems\, and creating safety in teams for people to bring up problems\nAnalyzing problems picking one technique: causal analysis\, blameless post-mortems\, retrospectives\, swarming\, or blocker analysis\nManaging impediments using techniques from Lean & Kanban; decide how to solve them and who should be involved\nUsing coaching and games to improve collaboration and develop problem-solving skills\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore how to handle impediments effectively and faster and practice our problem-solving skills. \nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome able to create a blameless culture where signals are spotted more easily and problems are brought up sooner\nDevelop your skills for analyzing problems to get a deep understanding\nExplore ways to take action and follow up to remove problems or mitigate the impact\nLearn how to collaboratively deal with impediments in your team and organization\nExplore ways to prevent problems from happening again in the future\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop on March 31\,  2 pm – 6 pm CEST. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in the exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAttendees of this workshop will get a free ebook copy of Problem? What problem? – Dealing Effectively with Impediments using Agile Thinking with Problem-solving Practices and a downloadable copy of the Impediment Board Game (value €30). \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-problem-solving-agile-thinking-practices-march-31-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Workshop Develop Better Products with Agile - Live Online
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to develop better products using agile practices to understand your customers\, develop iteratively\, deliver faster with better quality\, and get valuable product feedback on March 29-30\, 2021! \nA two-day workshop for €750. Early bird until March 19: €600. \nThis workshop is part of the March 2021 Agile Training Week. \nDevelop Better Products with Agile\nMany teams are adopting an agile way of working\, for instance with Scrum. Their expectation is that agile will help them to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs\, be more flexible\, and deliver faster. Unfortunately\, it doesn’t always work that way. Working in teams and collaborating with your customers to get feedback is hard. It’s not about doing Scrum\, it’s about effectively using agile practices to deliver value faster. \nIn the workshop Develop Better Products with Agile you will practice agile and learn how to apply it effectively: \n\nPractice understanding and prioritizing customer’s needs.\nWork in small teams to develop products iteratively.\nLearn to gather valuable feedback with product reviews and demos.\nSee how to improve your way of working with agile retrospectives.\nFind out how to effectively apply agile practices with an agile mindset.\n\nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you deliver the right products faster. \nIf your team(s) are \n\nfinding it difficult to understand your customer’s needs to decide on what to deliver when\nnot delivering working software or not able to finish user stories within a reasonable time\nnot getting feedback from customers and unsure if you are delivering value to your customers\nhaving difficulties communicating and working together as a self-organized team\ndoing agile/Scrum/Kanban rituals but feeling that they are not always helpful\nhaving difficulty to reflect and learn and get good actions out of your retrospective\n\nthen this is the workshop for you! \nLearning by Doing\nThe practices that you will be using in the workshop Develop Better Products with Agile will help you to develop the right products for your business and customers\, reduce your delivery time\, increase the quality of your software products\, and become a collaborative high-performing team. \nYou will practice: \n\nCommunicating with customers to build a backlog and slice it into small product pieces to deliver\nPrioritize delivery using criteria like value\, risk\, learning\, debt\, dependencies\, etc\nCollaborating remotely to create products\nDoing demo and feedback sessions to find out what customers think of your product\nFacilitating retrospectives to learn and improve product development skills\n\nAudience\nThe workshop Develop Better Products with Agile is intended for: \n\n(Senior) Developers\, Architects\, UI/UX designers\, and Testers\nProduct Owners/managers\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProject/Line Managers\n(Business) Stakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in increasing their performance\n\nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome better at understanding what your customers really need\nSkills for prioritizing product development to deliver more value faster\nAbility to do product reviews/demos to get valuable feedback\nWays to reflect and learn to increase the performance of your teams\n\nPractical information\nTwo-day\, four-hour per day interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in the exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-develop-better-products-agile-live-online/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Making Agile Work,Netherlands,Nigeria,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210325T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210325T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20210201T135141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210316T074357Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210320
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
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SUMMARY:Aginext 2021
DESCRIPTION:At Aginext 2021 I’m doing a session together with Fabio Armani where we explore psychological safety and culture in teams. Join us March 17-19\, online\, Aginext 2021. \n \nHow Safe is your Team?\nPsychological safety in teams matters\, it crucial to enable productive communication and collaboration. It’s also essential if you aim for long-lasting teams as things will happen and relationships can get hurt; team members need to be aware of what’s happening in the team and feel safe enough to deal with them. But\, how safe is your team? How can we find out if there are things that are making the team unsafe\, that are impacting the team culture? \nIn this mini-workshop\, we’ll play games in small groups using a deck of coaching cards for psychological safety and team culture. You’ll learn how you can get a deeper insight into what’s happening in teams using gamification. In a safe setting\, you can share what you have experienced working in teams\, how that impacted the team’s safety and culture\, and what made it turn around … or worse. \nCome play a game with psychological safety and team culture cards. \nAginext\nAginext is the only Post-Agile conference for advanced agilists and DevOps practitioners\, across roles\, departments or divisions. And especially across geography and bandwidth. Aginext Live! is an online networking event built around interactive talks\, workshops\, panels\, games and activities. Because none of us miss one-sided webinars — from our own teams to family and friends to our agile communities\, we miss connecting. \nAfter running 18 events including the last two online — plus hundreds of meetups — we’ve experimented\, reflected and rebuilt our online agile event to focus on creating one-to-one experiences. T \nIn its fifth year\, Aginext brings together the most forward-thinking agile minds to help you help your team move ahead with clarity\, purpose\, resilience and speed.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/aginext-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Conference,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210316T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210316T130000
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20210216T075224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210313T232310Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Assessing your Agility – Live Online
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can learn how to assess your agility to take the next steps on your agile journey: Join me on March 16 for this live online workshop. \nAssessing your Agility\nIn the workshop Assessing your Agility\, you will practice games and exercises to explore how agile your teams are. \nWe’ll be playing The Agile Self-Assessment Game\, a serious game used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing this game enables professionals to reflect on collaboration and team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. With this game\, they can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nNext\, you’ll learn how to create an “agile map” that inspires you with ideas for increasing your agility and provides suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. \nIn this workshop\, you will experience different playing formats of The Agile Self-assessment Game. You’ll hear about the importance of pre-selecting cards to create focused card decks and find out about different exercises that can be used to self-assess and play your agile journey. \nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you to increase your agility. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to explore your way of working and take the next steps on your agile journey. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore what agile and agility means and the benefits that they can bring\nUnderstand the power of engagement and invitation-based agile adoption approaches\nExperience how you can self-assess the agility of teams and organizations\nPlay the Agile Self-assessment Game using different playing formats and card decks\nLearn ways for planning and traveling your own agile journey\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can play the games and get fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nThe workshop Assessing your Agility is based on the Agile Self-assessment Game. All attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the Agile Self-Assessment Game and the ebook ‘The Agile Self-assessment Game’ (value €30). \nTestimonials\nThis is what people say who played the Agile Self-assessment Game: \nThe cards help to get the team out of the daily work and daily mindset. \nThis is a wonderful way to get your team talking about how they are “being” agile! \nThe game really did add value and I got some real insight into the thoughts of people. \nBen’s Agile Assessment game is easy to adopt and easy for teams to pick up. \nWe realized our agile maturity level\, recognized actionable improvements and had great fun and insights! \nPlaying the game builds clarity and alignment on what Agile means to everyone on the team and helps team members meaningfully evaluate their agility. \nIt’s a great tool to use for a retrospective. \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-assessing-agility-live-online-march-20212/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210311T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210311T130000
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20210215T112714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210308T164416Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices – Live Online
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can practice your problem-solving skills and learn how to deal with agile impediments. Join me on March 11\, 2021\, for the live online workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices. \nProblem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until February 28: €350. \nTeams will face problems in their daily work. Agile calls these problems impediments. Impediments can be something in the way of working\, be it processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They slow down teams or block the delivery of products or services. \nTeams need to be able to deal with impediments as they have an impact on the flow of work\, they are problems that reduce outputs and results. \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provide solutions for addressing them. In the workshop Problems Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\, you will learn how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems effectively and faster using agile thinking and practices. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nRecognizing signals of problems\, and creating safety in teams for people to bring up problems\nAnalyzing problems\, where we pick one technique: causal analysis\, blameless post-mortems\, retrospectives\, swarming\, or blocker analysis\nManaging impediments using techniques from Lean & Kanban; decide how to solve them and who should be involved\nUsing coaching and games to improve collaboration and develop problem-solving skills\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nIn this workshop we will explore how to handle impediments effectively and faster and practice our problem-solving skills. \nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome able to create a blameless culture where signals are spotted more easily and problems are brought up sooner\nDevelop your skills for analyzing problems to get a deep understanding\nExplore ways to take action and follow up to remove problems or mitigate the impact\nLearn how to collaboratively deal with impediments in your team and organization\nExplore ways to prevent problems from happening again in the future\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in the exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAttendees of this workshop will get a free ebook copy of Problem? What problem? – Dealing Effectively with Impediments using Agile Thinking with Problem-solving Practices and a downloadable copy of the Impediment Board Game (value €30). \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-problem-solving-agile-thinking-practices-march-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Problem Solving,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210304
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20201125T072324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201125T072324Z
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SUMMARY:Improving Organizational Agility – Virtual course
DESCRIPTION:I’m giving my popular workshop Improving Organizational Agility as an online virtual course on March 2 and 3\, 2021\, in collaboration with Agile Actors #learning. Sign up. \n \nMany organizations are going through agile transformations. They are implementing Scrum or Kanban and using large-scale agile frameworks like Lean\, SAFe\, LeSS or DAD\, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. Unfortunately\, those transformations do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. \nImproving Organizational Agility\nThis 8-hour workshop aims in helping organizations: \n\nhaving difficulties to adjust themselves to shorten delivery times\nhaving products with quality issues and are losing customers\ndoing an agile/Scrum/Kanban transformation but not seeing the expected benefits\nunable to remove barriers that are blocking cross-organizational collaboration\ntrying to adopt agile but finding it hard to change the culture and mindset\nlooking for ways to apply agile practices more effectively and needs help with that\nnot able to improve in small but meaningful steps\non an agile journey but unsure where to go next or what would be the best thing to do\n\nWho should attend\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAgile Consultants and Change Managers\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help participants apply agile methods and frameworks effectively to increase organizational agility \nWhat will you learn\nParticipants of this 8-hour workshop will learn how to apply agile throughout their organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster with better quality\, and improve organizational agility\, and more specifically: \n\nPractice how to create an environment that enables teams and empower them to apply agile practices.\nLearn ways to establish an agile mindset throughout the organization.\nCreate a culture that supports collaboration and which motivates people to work together to create high-quality products and services.\n\nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you become more agile and lean. \nMoreover\, participants of this workshop are expected to: \n\nPractice how to assess their agility with Agile Self-assessments to find out how well they are doing\nLearn effective ways to travel their agile journey and find out what they need to do this\nGet ideas for improving collaboration and communication between teams and stakeholders and break down barriers\nLearn tips and tricks to expand and scale an agile way of working throughout the organization\nGet advice on selecting and applying agile and lean practices effectively\n\nAbout the Instructor\nBen Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\, What Drives Quality\, The Agile Self-assessment Game\, Problem? What Problem?\, and Continuous Improvement. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools\, for example\, the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nBen is a well-known speaker and author; he’s much respected for sharing his experiences and helping others share theirs. His books and games have been translated into more than 12 languages and are used by professionals in teams and organizations all around the world. \nAs an adviser\, trainer\, and coach\, he helps organizations with effectively deploying software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement\, collaboration and communication\, and professional development\, to deliver business value to customers. \nAgile Actors #learning\nAgile Actors #learning is the Learning Ecosystem for the ambitious and talented tech professional. From setting meaningful personal goals to getting personal coaching\, it helps you find your next career dot and deliver value to the real world. \nWe are helping Tech Professionals to combine theory with best practices as well as real-world experiences in order to grow and excel. \nOur courses\, developed by experienced Software Engineers\, Testers\, Agile Coaches focus on hands-on examples and projects to get you up to speed with any new technology\, tool or methodology. \nSchedule\nNext virtual session has been scheduled for 2 & 3 March 2021 10:00am – 2:00pm (EEST). Sign up.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/improving-organizational-agility-virtual-course-2/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Improve Organizational Agility,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210301T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210301T220000
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20210221T140113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210221T140113Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Assessing your Agility at Agile Nigeria Conference
DESCRIPTION:Assessing your Agility by Ben Linders\, workshop in collaboration with The Agile Advisor Africa for the Agile Nigeria Conference. \nDate: March 1\, 2021.\nTime: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm WAT.\nVenue: Live Online.\nPrice: €300 per participant. \nRegister at the Agile Nigeria Conference Website. \n \nAssessing your Agility\nIn the workshop Assessing your Agility\, you will practice games and exercises to explore how agile your teams are. \nWe’ll be playing The Agile Self-Assessment Game\, a serious game used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility and much more. \n \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n-Agile Teams.\n-Technical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\n-Product Owners and Project/Line Managers\n-Stakeholders working with agile teams\n-Agile and Lean Coaches\n-Anybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations \nThe practices in this workshop will help you to explore your way of working and take the next steps on your agile journey. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n-Explore what agile and agility means and the benefits that they can bring\n-Understand the power of engagement and invitation-based agile adoption approaches\n-Experience how you can self-assess the agility of teams and organizations\n-Play the Agile Self-assessment Game using different playing formats and card decks\n-Learn ways for planning and traveling your own agile journey.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-assessing-agility-agile-nigeria-conference/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Nigeria,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210223T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210223T130000
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20210201T135141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210216T114003Z
UID:44352-1614070800-1614085200@www.benlinders.com
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210218
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20200905T101235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201125T065236Z
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SUMMARY:Continuous Improvement in Remote and Distributed Teams - Virtual Course
DESCRIPTION:Join my workshop Continuous Improvement in Remote and Distributed Teams as an online virtual course on February 16 and 17\, 2021\, in collaboration with Agile Actors #learning. Sign up. \nWorking with remote or distributed teams can be challenging. Distance and time differences make it more difficult to work together and to collaboratively improve the way of working. \nWhile remote or distributed teams can certainly have advantages over co-located teams\, their benefits can only be reached if teams know how to find effective ways to collaborate and communicate and become able to improve continuously. \nSome of the main challenges that remote or distributed teams have are: \n\nEstablishing ongoing communication between team members\nCoordinating and synchronize the work that needs to be done\nChanging the way the work is done while keeping alignment between different locations where the work is done\nDealing with cultural differences and establishing trust between team members\n\nThese challenges along with relevant best practices will be discussed during this hands-on workshop. \nContinuous Improvement in Remote and Distributed Teams\nThis 8-hour virtual workshop helps teams explore the way that they are collaborating and communicating and to find ways to improve and become more effective as a remote or distributed team. \nIn the hands-on workshop\, participants will learn to: \n\nDefine shared goals\, values\, and principles to work together in an effective way\nEstablish a culture where people respect and trust each other and are open and honest\nManage the balance between dependency and autonomy of team members at different locations\nHow to do agile self-assessments and remote retrospectives to reflect on the way of working\nDefine and execute actions to improve collaboration and communication\nImprove using tools for collaboration and communications\n\nWho should attend\nThis 8-hour workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile coaches and change agents\,\nTeam members of remote/distributed teams\,\nTeam\, product or project managers\,\n(Senior) managers\,\nAnybody involved in remote collaboration.\n\nAbout the Instructor\nBen Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\, What Drives Quality\, The Agile Self-assessment Game\, Problem? What Problem?\, and Continuous Improvement. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools\, for example\, the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nBen is a well-known speaker and author; he’s much respected for sharing his experiences and helping others share theirs. His books and games have been translated into more than 12 languages and are used by professionals in teams and organizations all around the world. \nAs an adviser\, trainer\, and coach\, he helps organizations with effectively deploying software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement\, collaboration and communication\, and professional development\, to deliver business value to customers. \nAgile Actors #learning\nAgile Actors #learning is the Learning Ecosystem for the ambitious and talented tech professional. From setting meaningful personal goals to getting personal coaching\, it helps you find your next career dot and deliver value to the real world. \nWe are helping Tech Professionals to combine theory with best practices as well as real-world experiences in order to grow and excel. \nOur courses\, developed by experienced Software Engineers\, Testers\, Agile Coaches focus on hands-on examples and projects to get you up to speed with any new technology\, tool or methodology. \nSchedule\nNext session has been scheduled for 16-17 February 2021 10:00am – 2:00pm EET.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/continuous-improvement-remote-distributed-teams-virtual-course/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210212T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210212T130000
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20201215T075426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201217T084525Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Assessing your Agility - Live Online
DESCRIPTION:I’m doing an interactive online workshop where you can learn how to assess your agility to take the next steps on your agile journey. Join me on February 12 for this live online workshop. \nAssessing your Agility\nIn the workshop assessing your agility\, you will practice games and exercises to explore how agile your teams are. Next\, you’ll learn how to create an “agile map” that inspires you with ideas for increasing your agility and provides suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. \nWe’ll be playing The Agile Self-Assessment Game\, a serious game used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing this game enables professionals to reflect on collaboration and team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. With this game\, they can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nIn this workshop\, you will experience different playing formats of The Agile Self-assessment Game. You’ll hear about the importance of pre-selecting cards to create focused card decks and find out about different exercises that can be used to self-assess and play your agile journey. \nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you to increase your agility. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to explore your way of working and take the next steps on your agile journey. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore what agile and agility means and the benefits that they can bring\nUnderstand the power of engagement and invitation-based agile adoption approaches\nExperience how you can self-assess the agility of teams and organizations\nPlay the Agile Self-assessment Game using different playing formats and card decks\nLearn ways for planning and traveling your own agile journey\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can play the games and get fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nThe workshop Assessing your Agility is based on the Agile Self-assessment Game. All attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the Agile Self-Assessment Game and the ebook ‘The Agile Self-assessment Game’ (value €30). \nTestimonials\nThis is what people say who played the Agile Self-assessment Game: \nThe cards help to get the team out of the daily work and daily mindset. \nThis is a wonderful way to get your team talking about how they are “being” agile! \nThe game really did add value and I got some real insight into the thoughts of people. \nBen’s Agile Assessment game is easy to adopt and easy for teams to pick up. \nWe realized our agile maturity level\, recognized actionable improvements and had great fun and insights! \nPlaying the game builds clarity and alignment on what Agile means to everyone on the team and helps team members meaningfully evaluate their agility. \nIt’s a great tool to use for a retrospective. \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-assessing-your-agility-live-online/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210213
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20201125T075724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201202T074443Z
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SUMMARY:OOP 2021
DESCRIPTION:In 2021 I’m back at OOP conference\, doing a mini-workshop on collaborative problem-solving. Join me online\, February 8-12\, 2021. \n \nProblem? What Problem? Practice Collaborative Problem-solving\nWorking in teams we face problems in our daily work. As a team\, we should be able to solve problems collaboratively. Agile calls these problems impediments. \nImpediments can be something in the way of working\, processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They can also be something cultural or structural. \nIn this mini-workshop\, we’ll practice solving an impediment as a team. Next\, we’ll explore how we solved it\, how we worked together. What hindered and helped us. We’ll learn what we can do to collaborate better. \nTarget Audience: Scrum masters\, tech leads\, agile coaches\, consultants\, developers\, testers\, managers\, CxOs\nPrerequisites: Some experience of working in teams\nLevel: Advanced \nExtended Abstract:\nThis is a hands-on mini-workshop about collaborative problem-solving. It will be an interactive session where people work together to solve a problem in a kind of role-play. Next\, we’ll explore the behaviors that arose\, focusing on what helps and hinders collaboration. \nI’ll kick it off by presenting problem-solving techniques and tips for collaborative problem-solving and dealing with impediments. \nDuring the session\, we’ll split up into groups using breakout rooms. In each group\, a part of the attendees will do a role play where they work on a problem\, where others will be observing how this goes. If time permits\, we’ll rotate solving two impediments. \nNext\, the observers will share what they saw happening where the group discusses this. \nBEN LINDERS \nBen Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement. As an adviser\, trainer\, and coach\, he helps organizations with effectively deploying software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement\, collaboration and communication\, and professional development\, to deliver business value to customers. \nBen is an active member of networks on Agile\, Lean\, and Quality\, and a well-known speaker and author. \nOOP conference\nOn February 8 – 12\, the OOP conference will take place digitally for the first time under the motto “Back To The Future”! \nExperience the OOP with all its known & proven formats\, practice-oriented program content and interactive exchange in the comfort of your home or home office. \nWe are happy to present you the tracks for 2021. From Modern Enterprise Architecture to DevOps\, DDD\, Testing & Quality and Business Agility\, you are sure to find exactly what suits your professional challenges!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/oop-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Conference,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Problem Solving,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210127T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210127T130000
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20201223T173939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210125T132545Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices - Live Online
DESCRIPTION:I’m doing an interactive online workshop where you can practice your problem-solving skills and learn how to deal with agile impediments. Join me on January 27\, 2021\, for this live online workshop. \n\n \nProblem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until January 10: €350. \nTeams will face problems in their daily work. Agile calls these problems impediments. Teams need to be able to deal with impediments as they have an impact on the flow of work\, they are problems that reduce outputs and results. \nImpediments can be something in the way of working\, be it processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They slow down teams or block the delivery of products or services. Agile can help to identify problems\, it tends to bring problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provide solutions for addressing them. Learn in this Problem-solving workshop how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems using agile thinking and practices. \nIn the workshop Problems Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\, you will learn how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems effectively and faster using agile thinking and practices. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nRecognizing signals of problems\, and creating safety in teams for people to bring up problems\nAnalyzing problems\, where we pick one technique: causal analysis\, blameless post-mortems\, retrospectives\, swarming\, or blocker analysis\nManaging impediments using techniques from Lean & Kanban; decide how to solve them and who should be involved\nUsing coaching and games to improve collaboration and develop problem-solving skills\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nTogether we will explore how to handle impediments effectively and faster and practice our problem-solving skills. \nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome able to create a blameless culture where signals are spotted more easily and problems are brought up sooner\nDevelop your skills for analyzing problems to get a deep understanding\nExplore ways to take action and follow up to remove problems or mitigate the impact\nLearn how to collaboratively deal with impediments in your team and organization\nExplore ways to prevent problems from happening again in the future\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in the exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAttendees of this workshop will get a free ebook copy of Problem? What problem? – Dealing Effectively with Impediments using Agile Thinking with Problem-solving Practices and a downloadable copy of the Impediment Board Game (value €30). \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-problem-solving-with-agile-thinking-and-practices-live-online/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Problem Solving,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20200708T060008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200926T094508Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices
DESCRIPTION:Teams need to deal with impediments as they slow them down or block the delivery of products. Find out how you can handle impediments effectively and faster and practice your problem-solving skills in my virtual workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices on November 9.\n \nFull-day workshop for €450. Early bird until October 9: €350. \nTo sign up: Please contact me by email: benlinders@gmail.com \nTeams will face problems in their daily work. Agile calls these problems impediments. Teams need to be able to deal with impediments as they have an impact on the flow of work\, they are problems that reduce outputs and results. \nImpediments can be something in the way of working\, be it processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They slow down teams or block the delivery of products or services. Agile can help to identify problems\, it tends to bring problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provide solutions for addressing them. Learn in this Problem-solving workshop how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems using agile thinking and practices. \nIn the workshop Problems Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\, you will learn how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems effectively and faster using agile thinking and practices. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nRecognizing signals of problems\, and creating safety in teams (and beyond) for people to bring up problems\nAnalyzing problems\, for example by using causal analysis\, Cynefin\, serious games\, blameless post-mortems\, retrospectives\, swarming\, or blocker analysis\nManaging impediments using techniques from Lean & Kanban; decide how to solve them and who should be involved\nPreventing problems using quality techniques like code walkthrough/reviews\, pairing\, CI/CD\nUsing coaching and games to improve collaboration and develop problem-solving skills\n\nAudience\nAgile Team\, Tech lead\, Scrum master\, Product Owner\, Project/Line Manager\, Agile and Lean Coach \nAttendees of this workshop will get a free ebook copy of Problem? What problem? – Dealing Effectively with Impediments using Agile Thinking with Problem-solving Practices. \nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome able to create a blameless culture where signals are spotted more easily and problems are brought up sooner\nDevelop your skills for analyzing problems to get a deep understanding\nExplore ways to take action and follow up to remove problems or mitigate the impact\nLearn how to collaboratively deal with impediments in your team and organization\nExplore ways to prevent problems from happening again in the future\n\nNote\nThis workshop was previously an onsite training in Potsdam in collaboration with Agile Testing Days. This conference has become online-only without workshops. Giving the interest that people have shown in my workshop\, I decided to turn it into a virtual training where people can attend worldwide. \nContact me by email to sign up: benlinders@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-problem-solving-with-agile-thinking-and-practices-online/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Problem Solving,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201031
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20201012T091706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201012T091706Z
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SUMMARY:Agile Tour Brussels 2020
DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to Agile Tour Brussels to do a futurespective on software development in 2040. Join this conference online on October 30\, 2020.  \nBack to the Future – A Futurespective on Software Development in 2040\nWe start the futurespective by sketching the future. How is software developed in 2040? Is it people\, AI\, or a combination? Teams\, large groups\, or individual work? Programming and testing\, or other approaches? Continuous delivery\, chunks\, iterations\, push or pull? Distributed\, dispersed\, localized teams? There are no limits\, let your imagination flow to visualize ideas about developing software products in 2040. \nNext\, we’ll discuss what got us there. How did these new ways of developing software come into existence? How did we discover them? What experiments led to this? What drove us or influenced us along the way? \nFinally\, we think about the steps that we can take in 2020 to reach the castle in the sky of software development. What can we do now to become better? What should we stop as it won’t exist in the future anymore? \nLet’s find out how the future of software development looks\, by doing a futurespective exercise in groups! \nAgile Tour Brussels\nAgile Tour Brussels is one of the biggest conferences about Agility in Belgium. We are a part of the Agile Tour\, a series of non-profit events over several cities throughout October and December. Our main goal is to spread the word about Agile practices. \nATBru is an all audience conference. We strive to have a wide program that suits any Agile practitioner’s levels. Workshops\, Agile games\, talks\, we have it all. \nJoin us Online in 2020 and meet a worldwide vibrant community of Agile practitioners.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-tour-brussels-2020/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Conference,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US
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SUMMARY:Virtual Agile Self-assessments in Remote and Distributed Teams
DESCRIPTION:I’m doing a short webinar on Virtual Agile Self-assessments in Remote and Distributed Teams on October 26\, in collaboration with Agile Actors #learning. \nVirtual Agile Self-assessments in Remote and Distributed Team\nWorking in remote or distributed teams can be challenging. Distance and time differences make it more difficult to work together. Where communication tools have improved significantly over the years\, they don’t really help us to find out how people think or feel or to establish a collaborative culture. \nIn this interactive free virtual webinar\, Ben Linders will explore how we can do virtual agile self-assessments to reflect on the way of working in distributed teams. Playing the Agile self-assessment Game online\, teams can dive deeply into how things are going and agree upon actions to improve how the team collaborates and communicates. \nThe Agile Self-assessment Game is used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. It uses an engagement model to involve people in the assessment to not impose change on people but instead enables them to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits their needs. Join this webinar to learn how to play the Agile self-assessment Game in remote and distributed teams. \nOn November 19-20\, Ben Linders will give the online virtual course Continuous Improvement in Remote and Distributed Teams. \nAgile Actors #learning\nAgile Actors #learning is the Learning Ecosystem for the ambitious and talented tech professional. From setting meaningful personal goals to getting personal coaching\, it helps you find your next career dot and deliver value to the real world. \nWe are helping Tech Professionals to combine theory with best practices as well as real-world experiences in order to grow and excel. \nOur courses\, developed by experienced Software Engineers\, Testers\, Agile Coaches focus on hands-on examples and projects to get you up to speed with any new technology\, tool or methodology.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/virtual-agile-self-assessments-remote-distributed-teams/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Webinar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201024
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
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UID:42643-1603238400-1603497599@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Agile Tour London 2020
DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to Agile Tour London to do a mini-workshop titled How Agile are You? Join me to play the Agile Self-assessment Game online on October 21\, 2020. \nLet’s Play a Game to Self-assess Your Agility\nEvery team\, every organization is less or more agile. But how agile are you\, and how can you increase your agility? Methods or frameworks don’t tell you how to become agile or increase your agility. \nThe Agile Self-Assessment Game is an “agile map” with coaching cards for Scrum\, DevOps\, Kanban\, and Business Agility. \nPlaying the game inspires you with ideas and suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. Join this session to experience different playing formats in teams\, learn how you can discover how agile you are\, and get fresh ideas to increase your agility. \nAbout Agile Tour London\nAnyone passionate about Agile! In its eighth year\, Agile Tour London is a “generalist” agile conference dedicated to people at all stages of their agile journey. We have loads working in agile software development\, but we welcome people from all sectors\, horizontals and verticals\, and all levels of experience. \nAnd this year\, for the first time\, we are opening our local conference to the whole world! We are still holding our Friday in-real-life conference but we will also hold two remote half days\, which will allow much of the world to connect over these agile topics.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-tour-london-2020/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Conference,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201015
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20201008T184039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201008T184125Z
UID:43427-1602633600-1602719999@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:DevOpsCon Berlin 2020
DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to DevOpsCon Berlin to do a session on Assessing Agility with Gamification on October 14\, 2020. This session is part of the DevOps transformation day. \nAssessing Agility with Gamification\nThere isn’t a silver bullet or standard route to increase your agility\, you have to find your own way. Copying a model to become agile won’t help\, and imposing agile upon people isn’t an effective approach. What does work is empowering your teams by helping them find out how agile they are\, using exercises and games to set course for their own agile journey. \nIn this session\, Ben Linders will show you how can use gamification to self-assess your current way of working and explores how you can do agile self-assessments to reflect and improve. Playing the Agile self-assessment Game\, onsite or online\, teams can dive deeply into how things are going and agree upon actions to improve how the team collaborates and communicates. \nThe Agile Self-assessment Game is used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. It uses an engagement model to involve people in the assessment to not impose change on people but instead enables them to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits their needs. Join this session to learn how to play the Agile self-assessment Game in onsite\, remote\, and distributed teams. \nDevOpsCon Berlin\nThe Conference for Continuous Delivery\, Microservices\, Containers\, Cloud & Lean Business – Berlin or Online. \nDevOps is fundamentally changing the IT world and sets the path for successful business transformation. Join DevOpsCon to learn about the latest tools\, technologies\, and methodologies for building and maintaining secure\, scalable\, and resilient software systems. \nHow do cloud platforms\, microservices\, and Kubernetes play together with comprehensive automation and continuous delivery? How can you handle increasing complexity in your organization and empower high-performance teams with the right tools and agile methodologies? DevOpsCon provides plenty of answers. \nAt DevOpsCon\, you will meet internationally recognized thought leaders of the DevOps movement and benefit from their expertise. Attend inspiring sessions and in-depth workshops to learn what you need to push your DevOps skills to the next level.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/devopscon-berlin-2020/
LOCATION:Mercure Hotel MOA Berlin\, Stephanstraße 41\, Berlin\, 10559\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Conference,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200913
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20200819T123933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200819T123933Z
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SUMMARY:Agile Business Day 2020
DESCRIPTION:I will be speaking at Agile Business Day 2020 about leading agile teams. This year\, Agile Business Day is an online event on September 11-12. \nLeading for Self-organization: Dos and Don’ts of Agile Management\nAgile is something for teams\, right? True\, but teams don’t function in a vacuum. As a manager\, you can set the stage and support teams who want to increase their agility. This presentation explores three topics that managers can work on to make teams succeed and increase the company’s agility: Leadership\, Collaboration\, and Culture. \nWith agile\, teams are supposed to make their own decisions on what to do and how to do. Managers should be delegating decisions to the team and trusting them to do the right thing. But letting go of control can be a scary thing. \nIn this talk\, I will explore leadership approaches suitable for teams and managers that want to become agile. I’ll show how teams can use the approaches to become empowered\, and how managers use them to guide teams towards producing valuable results. \nTo make agile work\, people should feel psychologically safe to make decisions and try out things. It can be challenging to establish a culture that enables agile. Let’s explore what managers can do to create and nurture a culture that fosters experimentation\, and what they can do to enable learning from failures and from things that go well. \nTo sum it up\, I’ll provide a list of these things that managers should consider doing if they want their teams to be successful\, and things that may be harmful to teams that they could stop doing. \nAgile Business Day\nThe Agile Business Day is the only Italian conference of international scope that covers the themes of agility at a business level\, organizational\, technical and humanistic. \nWith speakers and thought leaders of international level\, over 30 sessions in a day\, video streaming\, pre-conference workshops and extensive networking opportunities\, Agile Business Day represents a unique opportunity for growth for companies and organizations both public and private for managers\, professionals and anyone who wants to invest in individual and company growth.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-business-day-2020/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Conference,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200909T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200909T170000
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SUMMARY:Webinar Enhancing quality and testing in agile teams
DESCRIPTION:In the webinar enhancing quality and testing in agile teams – from theory to practice I’ll show how you can improve quality and testing using gamification.  \n \n \nIt can be hard for agile teams to deal with quality and testing challenges and decide what to do to deliver high-quality products. There are many different approaches and solutions\, which\, depending on the context\, the problem at hand\, and how they are applied\, can be more or less effective. \nIn this webinar\, Ben Linders will show you how can use gamification to self-assess your current way of working and enhance quality and testing in agile teams. Playing games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards make it possible to explore your current quality and testing practice and reach a consensus on what could be improved. \nPlayers can use the coaching cards to discuss quality and testing values\, principles\, and practices. In teams\, people can use the cards to share their experiences and learnings. \nDuring the webinar\, we’ll pick out cards from the coaching decks to go into detail on specific principles and practices and explore how they can be applied effectively. \n\n\n\nWebinar by Ben Linders\n\nBen Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\, What Drives Quality\, The Agile Self-assessment Game\, Problem? What Problem?\, and Continuous Improvement. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools\, for example\, the Agile Self-assessment Game. Ben is a well-known speaker and author; he’s much respected for sharing his experiences and helping others share theirs. His books and games have been translated into more than 12 languages and are used by professionals in teams and organizations all around the world. \nAbout PractiTest\nTechnology and methodology leader in the field of Application Life Management \nPractiTest is a cloud based Innovative test management tool. A technology and methodology leader in the field of Application Life Management (ALM)\, PractiTest provides its customers with the best in class End-to-End system to meet their Testing and QA needs. It is easy and affordable\, but very flexible and methodological. As a leading Test Case Management tool\, PractiTest enables organizations to ensure visibility and communication at all levels. As well as helping project development teams streamline and manage their testing processes\, while providing management with a clear and simple view of their project status at all times.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/webinar-enhancing-quality-and-testing-in-agile-teams/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Webinar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200831
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200901
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
CREATED:20200107T081116Z
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SUMMARY:Agile Workshop Improving Organizational Agility at DevOpsCon London - New date
DESCRIPTION:Learn to apply agile throughout your organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster with better quality\, and improve organizational agility at DevOpsCon London\, April 21\, 2020. \nImproving Organizational Agility\nIn the workshop Improving Organizational Agility\, you experience how your organization can become more agile: \n\nPractice creating an environment that enables teams and empower them to apply agile practices.\nLearn to establish an agile collaborative mindset throughout the organization.\nCreate a culture that supports collaboration and which motivates people to work together to create high-quality products and services.\n\nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you become more agile and lean. The practices in this workshop will help you to apply agile (Scrum\, Kanban\, DevOps) methods and frameworks effectively to increase organizational agility. \nWho should attend this workshop\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile and DevOps Coaches\nAgile Consultants and Change Managers\nAnybody who is supporting teams in DevOps implementations or agile transformations\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\n\nDevOpsCon London\nDevOps is fundamentally changing the IT world and sets the path for successful business transformation. Join DevOpsCon to learn about the latest tools\, technologies\, and methodologies for building and maintaining secure\, scalable\, and resilient software systems.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-workshop-improving-organizational-agility-at-devopscon-london/
LOCATION:Park Plaza Victoria\, 239 Vauxhall Bridge Road\, London\, SW1V 1EQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Improve Organizational Agility,UK,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200708T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200709T130000
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
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UID:42299-1594198800-1594299600@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Improving Organizational Agility - Virtual course
DESCRIPTION:I’m giving my popular workshop Improving Organizational Agility as an online virtual course on July 8 and 9\, in collaboration with Agile Actors #learning. \n \nMany organizations are going through agile transformations. They are implementing Scrum or Kanban and using large-scale agile frameworks like Lean\, SAFe\, LeSS or DAD\, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. Unfortunately\, those transformations do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. \nImproving Organizational Agility\nThis 8-hour workshop aims in helping organizations: \n\nhaving difficulties to adjust themselves to shorten delivery times\nhaving products with quality issues and are losing customers\ndoing an agile/Scrum/Kanban transformation but not seeing the expected benefits\nunable to remove barriers that are blocking cross-organizational collaboration\ntrying to adopt agile but finding it hard to change the culture and mindset\nlooking for ways to apply agile practices more effectively and needs help with that\nnot able to improve in small but meaningful steps\non an agile journey but unsure where to go next or what would be the best thing to do\n\nWho should attend\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAgile Consultants and Change Managers\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help participants apply agile methods and frameworks effectively to increase organizational agility \nWhat will you learn\nParticipants of this 8-hour workshop will learn how to apply agile throughout their organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster with better quality\, and improve organizational agility\, and more specifically: \n\nPractice how to create an environment that enables teams and empower them to apply agile practices.\nLearn ways to establish an agile mindset throughout the organization.\nCreate a culture that supports collaboration and which motivates people to work together to create high-quality products and services.\n\nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you become more agile and lean. \nMoreover\, participants of this workshop are expected to: \n\nPractice how to assess their agility with Agile Self-assessments to find out how well they are doing\nLearn effective ways to travel their agile journey and find out what they need to do this\nGet ideas for improving collaboration and communication between teams and stakeholders and break down barriers\nLearn tips and tricks to expand and scale an agile way of working throughout the organization\nGet advice on selecting and applying agile and lean practices effectively\n\nAbout the Instructor\nBen Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\, What Drives Quality\, The Agile Self-assessment Game\, Problem? What Problem?\, and Continuous Improvement. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools\, for example\, the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nBen is a well-known speaker and author; he’s much respected for sharing his experiences and helping others share theirs. His books and games have been translated into more than 12 languages and are used by professionals in teams and organizations all around the world. \nAs an adviser\, trainer\, and coach\, he helps organizations with effectively deploying software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement\, collaboration and communication\, and professional development\, to deliver business value to customers. \nAgile Actors #learning\nAgile Actors #learning is the Learning Ecosystem for the ambitious and talented tech professional. From setting meaningful personal goals to getting personal coaching\, it helps you find your next career dot and deliver value to the real world. \nWe are helping Tech Professionals to combine theory with best practices as well as real-world experiences in order to grow and excel. \nOur courses\, developed by experienced Software Engineers\, Testers\, Agile Coaches focus on hands-on examples and projects to get you up to speed with any new technology\, tool or methodology. \nSchedule\nNext virtual session has been scheduled for 8 & 9 July 2020 10:00am – 2:00pm (EEST)
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/improving-organizational-agility-virtual-course/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Improve Organizational Agility,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200326
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200327
DTSTAMP:20260418T120034
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220110T203740Z
UID:40933-1585180800-1585267199@www.benlinders.com
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 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/world-retrospective-day-2020/
LOCATION:TBD\, TBD\, TBD
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Meetup,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Retrospectives Agility,Retrospectives Teams,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200321
DTSTAMP:20260418T120035
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SUMMARY:Aginext.io 2020
DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to Aginext.io to explore how the future of agile can look. Join me in my futurespective on software development in 2040. \nBack to the Future – A Futurespective on Software Development in 2040\nI just came back from 2040 to find out that we are still making software. But it’s not as we know it\, Jim! Software development is done completely different compared to the agile wave that we had at the start of the century. How different? Well\, let’s futuresplore it together \nIn this session\, we will do a futurespective on how software development will be done in the future when we have finally mastered this profession. After sketching the future we’ll discuss what got us there\, and we think about the steps that we can take in 2020 to reach the castle in the sky. \nWhy would you join this session? One reason to participate would be to think about how to innovate the way software is developed and hear what other people think. Another reason would be to participate in a futurespective exercise\, which is a technique used in agile retrospectives. Finally\, you can practice out-of-the-box thinking in this session\, being freed by anything roadblocks your organization has as in the future they won’t be there anymore. \nAginext.io\nAginext is the Post-Agile Conference. It’s two days in London dedicated to advanced agile and what comes next. \nSo you’ve been doing agile for a while. Your systems and your people are increasingly complex. What’s next? A lot of agile teams are looking to level up their business agility. \nAgile at scale. Culture at scale. Digital leadership. The Post-Agile World. DevOps and cross-organisational digital transformation. Aginext looks to talk about and experiment with the unthinkable and undoable that’s already happening in some orgs. \nUse the code “BL_15″ to get 15% off! \nI have been part of the program committee of Aginext 2020\, where I supported the organizers in setting up the conference program and connecting with speakers.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/aginext-io-2020/
LOCATION:DoubleTree Hilton Westminster\, 30 John Islip St\, London\, SW1P 4DD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference,UK,Workshop
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