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SUMMARY:Workshop Collaborative Problem-solving at DevOpsCon Berlin
DESCRIPTION:I’m giving a workshop on collaborative problem solving at the DevOps Transformation Day at DevOpsCon Berlin on June 15\, 2026. Book your seat. \n \nCollaborative Problem-solving – Establishing an Effective Culture With Working Practices to Deal Resiliently With Impediments\nBoost your team’s collaborative problem-solving skills in this interactive mini-workshop\, using hands-on games\, exercises\, and coaching cards. Learn how to spot and tackle issues early while creating a culture of psychological safety where everyone feels safe to speak up and contribute. \nEvery tech team hits blockers; outages\, technical debt\, flaky systems\, impediments\, or organizational issues. These aren’t just annoyances—they’re momentum killers. Left unchecked\, they drain energy\, slow down teams\, and frustrate developers. This hands-on workshop is designed for modern product teams who want to break through the noise and move fast without breaking things. You’ll learn how to spot problems early before they derail your work\, and will play a team game to dig into problems to discover the root causes and find solutions. \nLet’s make teams better at fixing what’s really broken—fast and together. \nWhat Attendees Walk Away With: \n\nSpot Signals: Level up your radar to catch early\, subtle signs of trouble before things blow up.\nProblem Deep-Dive: Build your engineering skills to analyze issues—getting to the root causes.\nTake Action\, Fast: Learn practical moves to tackle problems head-on or reduce their impact before they stall your team.\nCreate a Speak-Up Culture: Explore making your team a psychologically safe space where everyone feels confident raising issues early.\nTeam Power: Practice working side-by-side to squash blockers and keep momentum flowing.\n\nOutline of the workshop: \n\nExercise to recognizing problems\, how to pick up signals as early as possible\nLearn about collaborative problem-solving and see what benefits it can bring\nPlay a game to ideate solutions and define an approach for applying those\nPractice skills and techniques for cross-organizational learning from problems\n\nThis workshop consists of exercises and games that we will play in teams\, like the impediment board game and agile coaching cards. It’s\nlearning by doing. Playing these games and doing the exercises will provide attendees with actionable ideas that they can use in their team(s) or organizations to deal effectively with impediments. \nAttendees get free downloadable copies of the Impediment Board Game\, and ebook Problem? What Problem? (value €30). \nThe workshop is based on my book Problem? What Problem? \nDevOpsCon Berlin\nDevOpsCon is the Conference for CI/CD\, the Kubernetes Ecosystem\, and Agile & Lean Business. \nBecause we want to ensure that the lively exchange of knowledge and ideas so typical of DevOpsCon Berlin 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 DevOpsCon 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!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-collaborative-problem-solving-at-devopscon-berlin/
LOCATION:Maritim proArte Hotel Berlin\, Friedrichstraße 151\, Berlin\, 10117\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Germany,Problem Solving
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251202
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
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SUMMARY:Workshop Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety
DESCRIPTION:I’m giving the workshop Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety at DevOpsCon Munich Transformation Day\, December 1. Book your seat. \n \nFostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety\n \nMany DevOps efforts struggle with developing an appropriate company culture. Psychological safety is a key enabler for an effective and sustainable organizational-wide collaborative culture. It increases personal engagement\, makes it easier for people to speak up at work\, and enables learning from failure. When people feel psychologically safe\, your organization will become more adaptive and resilient\, able to deal with changes and innovate. \nIn this workshop\, you’ll learn how to foster a culture of psychological safety that enables high-performing teams to deliver faster and better. The practical exercises teach you to recognize the warning signals of low psychological safety and to take appropriate action to increase the level of psychological safety. \nPsychological safety is important for tech organizations as it enables faster delivery\, innovation\, learning from failures\, and experimentation. People only dare to challenge the status quo when they feel included and safe to contribute. Then failures can become opportunities for learning and sharing ideas for improvement across the whole organization. \nLearning objectives:\n– Learn what psychological safety is and what it isn’t\n– Recognize warning signals of low psychological safety\n– See the benefits that improving psychological safety can bring\n– Explore factors that foster and drive psychological safety \nAgenda:\n– Workshop introduction and check-in exercise\n– Definitions and theory of psychological safety\n– What psychological safety isn’t\, and what to (not) expect from it\n– How psychological safety and DevOps relate to each other\n– Exercise: Recognizing warning signals about lower levels of psychological safety\n– The benefits that psychological safety can bring\n– Exercise: Exploring factors that drive and foster psychological safety\n– Dos and don’ts for leaders for establishing psychological safety.\n– Wrap up\, ask me anything\, and takeaways
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-fostering-sustainable-collaborative-culture-psychological-safety-devopscon-munich/
LOCATION:Holiday Inn Munich – City Centre\, Hochstraße 3\, Munich\, Bayern\, 81669\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference,Germany,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251110T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251110T153000
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SUMMARY:Spicing Up Your Retro: Proven Techniques to Energize Teams
DESCRIPTION:I’m giving a live session for entwicker.de / DevOpsCon on November 10: Spicing Up Your Retro: Proven Techniques to Energize Teams. \nAre your retrospective meetings not helping teams to improve? Do the same actions keep coming up every time? Do people skip retrospectives or find them boring? Is there a lack of energy and collaboration in the room during the retrospective? There’s no need for any of that! Let’s find out how we can reflect on our retrospectives to turn them into great learning and improvement sessions! \nThis session provides you with ideas and techniques to debug your agile retrospectives. You’ll learn how to find out why they aren’t working and what you can do to spice them up and make them valuable. Ben will be sharing from his 25+ years of agile retrospectives and will provide practical tools and solutions that you can use in your daily work. \nBen Linders’ talk about the right setup for Agile Retrospectives is part of the DevOps Con in Munich. Meet him in person during the first week of December. \nMake your sprint retrospectives more effective. Learn how to get participants to share their past experiences and turn their feedback into actionable steps. You’ll gain techniques to facilitate a collaborative retrospective that’s energizing\, not boring.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/spicing-up-retro-proven-techniques-energize-teams/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Webinar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250617
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
CREATED:20250219T170846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T170846Z
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SUMMARY:DevOps Transformation Day with Psychological Safety Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On June 16 I will be hosting the DevOps Transformation Day and giving the workshop Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety. Join me at DevOpsCon Berlin. \n \nDevOps Transformation Day\nBy joining DevOpsCon’s Transformation Day\, you’ll get a comprehensive insight into all the necessary aspects to make a DevOps transformation in your organization successful. As many DevOps efforts struggle with developing an appropriate company culture\, DevOpsCon’s Transformation Day focuses on becoming more agile as an entire organization. \nYou will not only get valuable insights into many theoretical aspects of a DevOps transformation\, but you’ll learn through practical examples how to encourage a sustainable culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing. \nInsights\, Strategy & Culture in One Day! \nWorkshop: Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety\nMany DevOps efforts struggle with developing an appropriate company culture. Psychological safety is a key enabler for an effective and sustainable organizational-wide collaborative culture. It increases personal engagement\, makes it easier for people to speak up at work\, and enables learning from failure. When people feel psychologically safe\, your organization will become more adaptive and resilient\, able to deal with changes and innovate. \nIn this workshop\, you’ll learn how to foster a culture of psychological safety that enables high-performing teams to deliver faster and better. The practical exercises teach you to recognize the warning signals of low psychological safety and to take appropriate action to increase the level of psychological safety. \nPsychological safety is important for tech organizations as it enables faster delivery\, innovation\, learning from failures\, and experimentation. People only dare to challenge the status quo when they feel included and safe to contribute. Then failures can become opportunities for learning and sharing ideas for improvement across the whole organization. \nLearning objectives:\n– Learn what psychological safety is and what it isn’t\n– Recognize warning signals of low psychological safety\n– See the benefits that improving psychological safety can bring\n– Explore factors that foster and drive psychological safety \nAgenda:\n– Workshop introduction and check-in exercise\n– Definitions and theory of psychological safety\n– What psychological safety isn’t\, and what to (not) expect from it\n– How psychological safety and DevOps relate to each other\n– Exercise: Recognizing warning signals about lower levels of psychological safety\n– The benefits that psychological safety can bring\n– Exercise: Exploring factors that drive and foster psychological safety\n– Dos and don’ts for leaders for establishing psychological safety.\n– Wrap up\, ask me anything\, and takeaways \nDevOpsCon Berlin\nDevOps is fundamentally changing the IT world and sets the path for successful business transformation. Join DevOpsCon to learn about the latest tools. \nHow do cloud platforms\, microservices\, and Kubernetes play together with comprehensive automation and continuous delivery? How can you handle increasing complexity in your organization? \nAt DevOpsCon\, you will meet internationally recognized thought leaders of the DevOps movement and benefit from their expertise.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/devops-transformation-day-with-psychological-safety-workshop/
LOCATION:Maritim proArte Hotel Berlin\, Friedrichstraße 151\, Berlin\, 10117\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference,Germany,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250410
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
CREATED:20241220T220240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241220T220240Z
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250210
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
CREATED:20241002T132839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241130T165159Z
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SUMMARY:Increasing Team Autonomy for Collaborative Problem-solving - Full day Tutorial at OOP 2025
DESCRIPTION:I will give the full-day tutorial Increasing Team Autonomy for Collaborative Problem-solving at OOP 2025 on Feb 3 in Munich\, Germany. \nBook your seat with a 15% discount with the voucher “OOP25_Linders” at OOP registration. \n \nOOP: The Conference for Software Architecture\nSoftware architects\, developers and IT project managers have been relying on OOP – the best-known and largest conference on all important software architecture topics in the German-speaking world – for their professional development for over 30 years. Why? This conference is the tried-and-tested meeting place for the software scene at the beginning of the year because it always succeeds in providing a state-of-the-art picture of current software development through cutting-edge and practical presentations. \n \nUse the voucher “OOP25_Linders” at OOP registration for a 15% discount \nFive days with more than 130 talks in up to 8 simultaneous tracks: OOP 2025 will once again offer the well-known high quality of presentations. \nIncreasing Team Autonomy for Collaborative Problem-solving\nAgile teams don’t want to depend on outside help to solve problems and deliver value. In this tutorial\, we will practice culture change through visualization exercises to increase team autonomy and agility and learn how to solve problems collaboratively inside teams by playing the Impediment Board Game. \nCulture matters! It can make or break things. Get people moving or inhibit them. Drive people toward results\, or drive them nuts. An agile culture is a foundation for an agile way of working and a successful agile journey\, it is a key factor that you need to work on. In the tutorial\, you will learn ways to visualize the existing culture and come up with ideas for culture change to increase agility. \nProblems that software teams have these days are complex. Team collaboration is essential to solve them. Gamification supports teamworking and helps teams exploit all team members’ knowledge and skills to solve problems collaboratively. We will play a game in the tutorial to recognize problems in the early stages and practice collaborative problem-solving. \nMaximum number of participants: 24 \nTarget Audience: Developer\, Architect\, Tech leads\, Project/Line Manager\, Agile Coach\nPrerequisites: None\nLevel: Advanced \nAbout the trainer\nBen Linders runs a one-person business in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement. Author of „Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives“\, „Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives“\, „What Drives Quality“\, „The Agile Self-assessment Game“\, „Problem? What Problem?“\, and „Continuous Improvement“. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools\, for example\, the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nBen is a well-known speaker and author; he is much respected for sharing his experiences and helping others share theirs. His books and games have been translated into more than 12 languages and are used by professionals in teams and organizations all around the world. \nAs a trainer\, facilitator\, coach\, and advisor\, he helps organizations with effectively deploying software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement\, collaboration and communication\, and professional development\, to deliver business value to customers. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/increasing-team-autonomy-collaborative-problem-solving-tutorial-oop-2025/
LOCATION:International Congress Center Munich\, Am Messesee 6\, Munich\, 81829\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Germany,Problem Solving,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241206
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SUMMARY:Gamify until you make it @ DevOpsCon Munich 2024
DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to DevOpsCon Munich to give my talk Gamify It Until You Make It: Improving Agile Development and Operations With Gamification. \n \nImproving Agile Development and Operations With Gamification\nSo many challenges\, so little time. While we’re busy developing software and keeping it operational\, we also need to sharpen the saw\, but how? \nGamification can be a way to look at how you’re doing and find out where to improve. It’s a great way to have everyone involved and get the best out of people. \nIn this presentation\, Ben Linders will show how playing games with the DevOps coaching cards can help to explore your current development and deployment (DevOps) practices and decide as a team what to improve or experiment with. The games that we play are based on an engagement model. Instead of imposing change\, the games enable people to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits their collective needs. By playing games\, you can learn from each other. \nTeams can use games\, exercises\, and coaching cards to discuss values\, principles\, and practices\, and share their experiences and learnings. Different game formats can be used to share experiences on DevOps principles and practices and explore how they can be applied effectively. This presentation provides an overview of playing formats and will inspire you to come up with your own formats. \nDevOpsCon Munich\nDevOps Conference – The Conference for Continuous Delivery\, Microservices\, Containers\, Clouds and Lean Business. \nSimplify Complexity\, Amplify\, Agility\, Accelerate InnovationOptimize Delivery and Build \nSecure\, Scalable Applications with Seamless Team Flow \nBoost Productivity with DevOps\, Cloud\, Microservices & Automation \nNetwork with international DevOps Strategists and Industry Leaders
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/gamify-until-you-make-it-devopscon-munich-2024/
LOCATION:Hilton Hotel Munich Park\, Am Tucherpark 7\, Munich\, 80538\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference,Germany,online
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241129
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Problem-solving and keynote on Gamification at DevOpsCon Singapore 2024
DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to DevOpsCon Singapore to give the workshop Fostering an Agile Culture for Effective Problem Solving and a keynote on Improving Agile Development and Operations With Gamification. Join me on November 25-28. \n \nWorkshop Fostering an Agile Culture for Effective Problem Solving\nPractice culture change\, learn how to increase team autonomy and morale for effective problem-solving\, and explore retrospectives to increase business agility in this interactive workshop. \nAdopting agile often doesn’t live up to its promise of delivering better products fast at lower costs. The missing ingredients that cause failure have to do with an insufficient agile mindset and difficulties in changing to a culture of agile thinking and acting. An agile culture is the foundation for a collaborative way of working and business agility\, it is a key factor that you need to work on. \nIn this workshop\, we’ll explore how organizations can visualize their culture. We learn how organizations can foster a mindset and culture change toward agility and how they can apply agile DevOps practices and capabilities to deliver value frequently and fast. \nWe’ll explore how team autonomy and morale can be increased by playing the Agile Impediment Board Game. Using gamification we’ll practice effective collaborative problem-solving techniques. \nFinally\, we’ll see how agile retrospectives can be used to establish continuous improvement with effective communication and collaboration\, to increase the agility of teams and the organization. \nAttendees get free downloadable copies of the Culture Cards\, Impediment Board Game\, and ebook Problem? What Problem? (value $40). \nGamify It Until You Make It: Improving Agile Development and Operations With Gamification\nSo many challenges\, so little time. While we’re busy developing software and keeping it operational\, we also need to sharpen the saw\, but how? Gamification can be a way to look at how you’re doing and find out where to improve. It’s a great way to have everyone involved and get the best out of people. \nIn this keynote\, Ben Linders will show how playing games with the DevOps coaching cards can help to explore your current development and deployment (DevOps) practices and decide as a team what to improve or experiment with. The games that we play are based on an engagement model. Instead of imposing change\, the games enable people to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits their collective needs. \nBy playing games\, you can learn from each other. Teams can use games\, exercises\, and coaching cards to discuss values\, principles\, and practices\, and share their experiences and learnings. Different game formats can be used to share experiences on DevOps principles and practices and explore how they can be applied effectively. This presentation provides an overview of playing formats and will inspire you to come up with your own formats. \nDevOpsCon Singapore\nDevOps is fundamentally changing the IT world and sets the path for successful business transformation. Join DevOpsCon to learn about the latest tools. \nHow do cloud platforms\, microservices\, and Kubernetes play together with comprehensive automation and continuous delivery? How can you handle increasing complexity in your organization? \nAt DevOpsCon\, you will meet internationally recognized thought leaders of the DevOps movement and benefit from their expertise.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-problem-solving-talk-gamification-devopscon-singapore-2024/
LOCATION:Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Center\, 1 Raffles Blvd\, Singapore\, 039593\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Conference,Problem Solving,Singapore,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241121
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SUMMARY:QCon San Francisco 2024
DESCRIPTION:I’m attending QCon San Francisco as a dedicated reporter for InfoQ\, doing virtual panels with the speakers and covering topics of the sessions. \n \nQCon San Fransisco\nMake the right decisions by uncovering how senior software developers at early adopter companies are adopting emerging trends. \nLearn the emerging trends. Explore the use cases. Implement the best practices. \nWe’ve helped thousands of senior software engineers\, software architects and tech leaders adopt the right patterns & practices for over 18 years. \nInfoQ\nSoftware is changing the world\, and our mission is to help dev teams adopt new technologies and practices. InfoQ provides software engineers with the opportunity to share experiences gained using innovator and early adopter stage techniques and technologies with the wider industry. We carefully curate and peer review everything we publish. We strongly believe that the high quality insights\, offered by both our editors and other contributors\, have the power to uplift entire communities\, no matter what their native language. \nOver 550K global senior software developers rely on the InfoQ community every month to keep ahead of the adoption curve. Our community editors aim to ensure that our readers never miss out on important trends. One of the main reasons software architects and engineers tell us they keep coming back to InfoQ is because they trust the information provided and selected by their peers.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/qcon-san-francisco-2024/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency SF\, 5 Embarcadero Center\, San Francisco\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,US
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240621
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
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SUMMARY:Improving Agile Development and Operations with Gamification at DevOpsCon Berlin 2024
DESCRIPTION:I will be returning to DevOpsCon Berlin to give a talk about Improving Agile Development and Operations with Gamification. Join me in Berlin on June 17 at the DevOps Transformation Day.\n \nGamify it until you make it: Improving Agile Development and Operations with Gamification\nSo many challenges\, so little time. While we’re busy developing software and keeping it operational\, we also need to sharpen the saw\, but how? Gamification can be a way to look at how you’re doing and find out where to improve. It’s a great way to have everyone involved and get the best out of people. \nIn this presentation\, Ben Linders will show how playing games with the DevOps coaching cards can help to explore your current development and deployment (DevOps) practices and decide as a team what to improve or experiment with. \nThe games that we play are based on an engagement model. Instead of imposing change\, the games enable people to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits their collective needs. \nBy playing games\, you can learn from each other. Teams can use games\, exercises\, and coaching cards to discuss values\, principles\, and practices\, and share their experiences and learnings. \nDifferent game formats can be used to share experiences on DevOps principles and practices and explore how they can be applied effectively. This presentation provides an overview of playing formats and will inspire you to come up with your own formats. \nDevOpsCon Berlin\nDevOpsCon is the Conference for CI/CD\, the Kubernetes Ecosystem\, and Agile & Lean Business. \nBecause we want to ensure that the lively exchange of knowledge and ideas so typical of DevOpsCon Berlin 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 DevOpsCon 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! \n \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/improving-agile-development-operations-with-gamification-devopscon-berlin-2024/
LOCATION:Maritim proArte Hotel Berlin\, Friedrichstraße 151\, Berlin\, 10117\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference,Germany,online
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SUMMARY:ACE! 2024 conference - Talk and workshop on Psychological Safety
DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to ACE! in 2024 to do a talk and a mini workshop on Psychological Safety: Learn why psychological safety matters and what can be done to explore it and increase safety in your team. \nWhy Psychological Safety Matters for Software Teams\nPsychological safety: some see it as a buzzword of these times. Others view it as out of their world\, impossible to reach in the company where they work. It’s a hot topic\, and I wonder if people truly understand what makes it so important and what difference it can make. \nThis talk goes back to the “why” of psychological safety\, exploring why it matters and why we should care about psychological safety in software teams (I also proposed a mini-workshop that is about the “what” and “how” of psychological safety). Psychological safety should be a no-brainer for teams to work on\, as it lays the foundation for effective collaboration and teamwork. \nTeams where people feel safe sometimes aren’t even aware of having it\, as it feels like a natural thing. An absence of psychological safety can seriously bring damage to people and impact the team’s performance. In the end\, establishing safe teams is the right thing to do\, it’s common sense (but not common practice\, unfortunately). \nIn this talk\, Ben explores why software teams should care about psychological safety. He will show what can happen when people feel truly safe to raise issues\, admit mistakes\, ask for help and offer help\, take risks\, and share any concerns that they may feel. Next\, he will dive into the aspects of psychological safety and provide ideas for making it safer at work. Trust and inclusion have strong relationships with psychological safety. \nHe will share how they relate to each other and how working on one or more of them can benefit the others. In this presentation\, He will share his learnings of working in and with teams where people felt psychologically safe. He will also present findings from research that has been done on psychological safety (partly based on what he published on InfoQ: Psychological Safety in Tech Teams). \nFostering Psychological Safety in Agile Teams – Mini Workshop\nPsychological safety in teams is important; team members must feel safe and able to communicate and collaborate effectively to deliver value. It’s also necessary to build long-lasting teams since things will happen and relationships will be strained. \nBut\, how safe is a team? How can we determine if there are any factors that make the team unsafe or have an impact on the team’s culture? \nIn this mini-workshop\, we’ll play games for psychological safety and team culture utilizing a deck of coaching cards\, The Psychological Safety Cards. We will learn how to use gamification to gain a better understanding of what’s going on in teams. Individuals share what they have learned from working in teams\, what has impacted the team’s safety and culture\, and what has led to positive change. \nDifferent game formats will be played in groups in parallel. Examples are an ice-breaker to get people talking about psychological safety\, a constellation where people take positions about aspects of psychological safety in their team or organization\, and collaborative card games where people work together to create an environment that fosters psychological safety. \nHere’s an article with more background on psychological safety and some approaches that can be used to apply it: Re-establishing psychological safety in teams. Happy to design new game formats to have people experiment with the concepts and ideas\, let me know your thoughts on it? \nAfter playing the game\, each group will take time to debrief and reflect on how the game went and what they learned about psychological safety. Next\, there’s time for each group to share their learnings with all workshop attendees. \nThe Psychological Safety Cards have been developed by Ben Linders and Fabio Armani and have been reviewed by people from the worldwide agile community. These cards are available as a downloadable product. Attendees can get a free personal copy of the product on request: Psychological Safety Cards. \nACE! Conference\nACE! is the largest regional conference of its kind in Central Europe\, attracting people from all over the region. We’re really excited about the next edition which will combine two tracks: Agile Software Development and Product Design & Management into one conference. \n\nThe Building Software Better track is a great place to learn for Scrum Masters\, Agile Coaches\, Project & Product Managers\, Team Leaders\, attendees on the C-level position and everyone engaged in the Product Delivery process.\nThe Building Better Products track is for everyone involved in creating products\, including Product Managers\, UI and Interaction Designers\, and UX Designers & Researchers.\n\nACE! 2024: \n\nIn Kraków (Multikino): for those of you who missed the full conference experience and would love to share knowledge & experience with others in person\nLearn with experts: join Agile Coaching Corner\, Product & Design Cafe\, Open Space sessions and many more\nMake new connections that last: get to know practitioners from all over the world during the Dinner with Stranger
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/ace-2024-conference/
LOCATION:Multikino Kraków\, Dobrego Pasterza 128\, Krakow\, 30-962\, Poland
CATEGORIES:Conference,Poland
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240411
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240306
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240308
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
CREATED:20231221T063838Z
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SUMMARY:Mini-workshop on Psychological Safety at FlowCon France 2024
DESCRIPTION:I will be returning to FlowCon France\, this time to do a mini-workshop on Psychological Safety on March 6-7 in Paris\, France. \nPsychological Safety in Teams\nPsychological safety in teams is important; team members must feel safe and able to communicate and collaborate effectively to deliver value. It’s also necessary to build long-lasting teams since things will happen and relationships will be strained. \nBut\, how safe is a team? How can we determine if there are any factors that make the team unsafe or have an impact on the team’s culture? \nIn this mini-workshop\, we’ll play games for psychological safety and team culture utilizing a deck of coaching cards\, The Psychological Safety Cards. We will learn how to use gamification to gain a better understanding of what’s going on in teams. Individuals share what they have learned from working in teams\, what has impacted the team’s safety and culture\, and what has led to positive change. \nDifferent game formats will be played in groups in parallel. Examples are an ice-breaker to get people talking about psychological safety\, a constellation where people take positions about aspects of psychological safety in their team or organization\, and collaborative card games where people work together to create an environment that fosters psychological safety. \nFlowCon France\nFlowCon has been bringing together software development professionals for 10 years around a main concept: product development flow\, whether Lean Kanban (originally)\, agility\, Lean\, Continuous Delivery\, Beyond Budgeting\, and all the international thoughts on how to work better as a team. All the organizers\, speakers\, sponsors\, and participants come together around these questions. \nAttendees come to FlowCon to experience a selection of talks from around the world. Flowcon claims a mix of participants\, from the developer to the boss\, rarely gathered in the same place\, and all concerned by common subjects. \nFlowcon has become a key conference for the French Agile community\, with the ambition to go beyond our borders. Hosted by renowned national and international speakers\, the conference addresses the topics at the heart of the concerns of modern agility.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/mini-workshop-psychological-safety-flowcon-france-2024/
LOCATION:Centre culturel le Beffroi\, 2 Place Emile Cresp\, Paris\, 92120\, France
CATEGORIES:Conference,France
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231215
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
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SUMMARY:Full-day Workshop Improving Organizational Agility @ DevOpsCon Singapore 2023
DESCRIPTION:I’m giving a full-day workshop where people learn to apply agile throughout their organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster with better quality\, and improve organizational agility. Join my workshop Improving Organizational Agility at DevOpsCon Singapore 2023! \nImproving Organizational Agility\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 customers’ needs. Unfortunately\, those transformations do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. \nIn the workshop Improving Organizational Agility\, you will experience how your organization can become more agile. \n\nPractice creating an environment that enables teams and empowers 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. \nLearn to apply agile throughout your organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster with better quality\, and improve organizational agility! \nDevOpsCon Singapore\nDevOps is fundamentally changing the IT world and sets the path for successful business transformation. Join DevOpsCon to learn about the latest tools. \nHow do cloud platforms\, microservices\, and Kubernetes play together with comprehensive automation and continuous delivery? How can you handle increasing complexity in your organization? \nAt DevOpsCon\, you will meet internationally recognized thought leaders of the DevOps movement and benefit from their expertise.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/full-day-workshop-improving-organizational-agility-devopscon-singapore-2023/
LOCATION:Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Center\, 1 Raffles Blvd\, Singapore\, 039593\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Conference,Improve Organizational Agility,online,Singapore,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="S&S Media":MAILTO:info@sandsmedia.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231002
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
CREATED:20230611T065542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230611T065542Z
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SUMMARY:Why people hate working in agile teams\, and what you can do about it @ QA: Challenge Accepted
DESCRIPTION:I will be speaking at QA: Challenge Accepted about why people hate working in agile teams\, and what you can do about it. Join me on Sunday\, October 1 in Sofia\, Bulgaria. \nWhy people hate working in agile teams\nBy now\, many of us have been through one or more “agile transformations”. We’ve been surrounded by agile coaches and Scrum masters who tried to help us adapt to agile\, with managers who became servant leaders. Hopefully they weren’t telling you what to do or how to do your work! A lot of people simply hate working in agile teams – Ben hears that all the time. And that is why he’s here! In this talk\, Ben will explore the difficulties of collaborating in teams and what we can do to make it beneficial and worthwhile for people to work in teams. \nWhat you can do about it\nBen will delve into what teams really need\, and what leaders should do and should not do to support them\, including providing an environment and culture where teams can flourish and supporting teams in removing barriers. Through this talk\, attendees will gain a better understanding of the reasons why people struggle to work in agile teams\, and what leaders can do to create a positive and supportive environment for teams. The talk is intended for anyone working in a team or working with teams\, from agile coaches and Scrum masters to managers and team members who are looking to improve their collaboration skills and create a more positive and productive work environment. \nQA: Challenge Accepted\nQA: Challenge Accepted is an international full-day single-track conference targeted towards enthusiasts\, specialists and managers participating in software testing and software quality assurance. The event is initiated by the QA community in Bulgaria – for professionals from professionals. After 8 consecutive years\, we would like to welcome you on October 1st in Sofia Tech Park. The event will also be streamed online for free. The conference will feature a diverse range of sessions\, and you will learn about a variety of topics for QA professionals from all levels. Do not miss QA: Challenge Accepted 2023!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/people-hate-working-agile-teams/
LOCATION:John Atanasoff Forum\, Sofia Tech Parc\, Boulevard "Tsarigradsko shose" 111Г\, Sofia\, 1784\, Bulgaria
CATEGORIES:Bulgaria,Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230921
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
CREATED:20221219T114418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221219T114418Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Improving Organizational Agility
DESCRIPTION:I’m giving my popular workshop Improving Organizational Agility as an in-person course on September 20\, 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 runs a one-person business in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\, What Drives Quality\, The Agile Self-assessment Game\, Problem? What Problem?\, and Continuous Improvement. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools\, for example\, the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nBen is a well-known speaker and author; he’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 in-person course has been scheduled for September 20\, 2023 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (EEST). Sign up.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/improving-organizational-agility-september-2023/
LOCATION:Agile Actors #learning\, 62A Ethnikis Antistasis\, Chalandri\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Greece,Improve Organizational Agility,online,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230919
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
CREATED:20230816T075929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T075929Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can practice your problem-solving skills and learn how to deal with agile impediments. Join me on September 18\, 2023\, for the live workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices. \nA one-day workshop for €350 + VAT. \n \nProblem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\nTeams will face problems in their daily work. Agile calls these problems impediments. Impediments can be something in the way of working\, be it processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They slow down teams or block the delivery of products or services. \nTeams need to be able to deal with impediments as they have an impact on the flow of work\, they are problems that reduce outputs and results. \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. In the workshop Problems Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\, you will learn how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems effectively and faster using agile thinking and practices. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nRecognizing signals of problems\, and creating safety in teams for people to bring up problems\nAnalyzing problems picking one technique: causal analysis\, blameless post-mortems\, retrospectives\, swarming\, or blocker analysis\nManaging impediments using techniques from Lean & Kanban; decide how to solve them and who should be involved\nUsing coaching and games to improve collaboration and develop problem-solving skills\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore how to handle impediments effectively and faster and practice our problem-solving skills. \nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome able to create a blameless culture where signals are spotted more easily and problems are brought up sooner\nDevelop your skills for analyzing problems to get a deep understanding\nExplore ways to take action and follow up to remove problems or mitigate the impact\nLearn how to collaboratively deal with impediments in your team and organization\nExplore ways to prevent problems from happening again in the future\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \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. \nCancellations 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 spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-problem-solving-with-agile-thinking-and-practices-sep-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230912
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
CREATED:20230816T074043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T074043Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Fostering an Agile Culture
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can practice culture change\, learn how to increase team autonomy and morale\, and explore using retrospectives to keep your agile journey going smoothly. Join me on September 11\, 2023\, for the live workshop Fostering an Agile Culture. \nA one-day online workshop for €350 + VAT. \nFostering an Agile Culture\nAdopting agile often doesn’t live up to its promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. The missing ingredients that cause failure often have to do with an insufficient agile mindset and difficulties in changing to a culture of agile thinking and acting. An agile culture is a foundation for an agile way of working and a successful agile journey\, it is a key factor that you need to work on. \nIn this workshop\, we’ll explore how organizations can visualize their culture. We learn how organizations can foster a mindset and culture change toward agility and how they can apply agile practices and 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 agile journey going in the right direction. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nVisualize your existing agile culture and see the need and possibilities for culture change\nShare agile strengths and challenges to explore what it takes for an agile culture and mindset\nExperience how gamification can be used to improve the team’s autonomy and morale\nPractice retrospective techniques to reflect and find ways to improve your agile journey\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore how to create conditions for culture change and use this to increase the agility of organizations. \nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live online 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. \nCancellations 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 free downloadable copies of the Culture Cards and the Impediment Board Game (value €25). \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-fostering-an-agile-culture-sep-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Improve Organizational Agility,online,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230907
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230908
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T071233Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Self-assessing your Agility
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 September 7\, 2023\, for this live online workshop. \nA one-day workshop for €350. \n \n \nSelf-assessing your Agility\nIn the workshop Self-assessing your Agility\, you will practice games and exercises to explore how agile your teams are. \nWe’ll be playing The Agile Self-Assessment Game\, a serious game used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing this game enables professionals to reflect on collaboration and team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. With this game\, they can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nThis cooperative card game uses an engagement model to involve people in the assessment. Instead of imposing change\, the game enables people to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits their collective needs. \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 Agile Self-assessment Game supports all agile teams\, whether using Scrum\, Kanban\, XP\, Lean\, DevOps\, DaD\, SAFe\, LeSS\, Nexus\, Scrum@Scale\, or any other agile framework. Specific agile frameworks are supported by expansion packs for Scrum\, DevOps\, Business Agility\, and Kanban. Many exercises can also be played with card decks on Agile Testings\, Agile Quality\, and Psychological Safety. \nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you 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 to plan 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. \nCancellations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nThe workshop Assessing your Agility is based on the Agile Self-assessment Game. All attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the Agile Self-Assessment Game and the ebook ‘The Agile Self-assessment Game’ (value €30). \n \nTestimonials\nThis is what people say who played the Agile Self-assessment Game: \nThe cards help to get the team out of the daily work and daily mindset. \nThis is a wonderful way to get your team talking about how they are “being” agile! \nThe game really did add value and I got some real insight into the thoughts of people. \nBen’s Agile Assessment game is easy to adopt and easy for teams to pick up. \nWe realized our agile maturity level\, recognized actionable improvements and had great fun and insights! \nPlaying the game builds clarity and alignment on what Agile means to everyone on the team and helps team members meaningfully evaluate their agility. \nIt’s a great tool to use for a retrospective. \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-self-assessing-your-agility-sep-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,online,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230906
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SUMMARY:Improving Your Testing Skills and Practices with Gamification @ Testing United 2023
DESCRIPTION:At Testing United 2023 I will talk about Improving Your Testing Skills and Practices with Gamification. The conference will be held in Bratislava and Miami\, and in VR\, on September 4 & 5. \nImproving Your Testing Skills and Practices with Gamification\nSo many challenges\, and so little time. As testers\, we need to sharpen the saw\, but how? Gamification can be a way to look at how you’re doing and find out where to improve. It’s a great way to have everyone engaged and get the best out of people. \nWith games\, we can foster psychological safety and create a setting where people feel safe to speak up about how things are going. Playing games with coaching cards people share what’s working and what isn’t\, the challenges they are facing\, and what they would like to try out. Everybody will be involved\, it’s a fun and effective way to practice new ideas and collaboratively decide on what to improve next. \nThe testing coaching cards contain statements about agile testing mindset\, values\, principles\, and practices. Playing with these coaching cards helps testers to explore their contributions and look for ways to increase the value that they contribute to their team and organization. \nIn this presentation\, Ben Linders will show how playing games (onsite or online) with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards help to explore your current testing and quality practices and decide as a team on what to improve and experiment with. \n3 key takeaways \n\nLearn about gamification as a way to engage people into learning\nUnderstand the importance of psychological safety in improving skills and team performance\nSee how coaching cards can be used to discuss and self-assess working practices\n\nTesting United\nTesting United is a testing conference aimed at all levels of testers\, test leads\, test managers\, test consultants and IT employees that come in daily contact with testing teams. The conference unites experts from the extended central Europe region\, and thus expands on this idea by periodically rotating the venue between Vienna\, Prague and Bratislava since 2018. \nWith this year’s main topic “2023: Tester’s place in Universe\, Metaverse & Beyond“\, experienced speakers will outline the changes testing community is facing.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/improving-testing-skills-practices-gamification-testing-united-2023/
LOCATION:Refinery Gallery Bratislava\, Vlčie hrdlo\, Bratislava\, 821 07\, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
CATEGORIES:Conference,online,Slovakia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230831
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230901
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
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SUMMARY:Workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives
DESCRIPTION:Learn how you can facilitate retrospectives\, practice exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in retrospectives in the online workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives on August 31\, 2023. \nA one-day interactive workshop for €350 +VAT. \n \n \nFacilitating Retrospectives\nAgile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting at the end of each iteration to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions in the next iteration. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nFacilitating retrospectives can be hard. As a facilitator you need to: \n\nSet the stage where people get into a reflection and learning mode\nDo exercises that get people involved and bring out issues that the team wants to work on\nEstablish psychological safety for people to be open about what bothers them\nRecognize and deal with retrospective smells or anti-patterns when they happen\nGuide the team to come up with their vital few actions to make change happen\n\nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\nIt’s more difficult to foster productive and collaborative behavior and keep everyone involved during the meeting\nNot physically being together calls for different retrospective exercises or innovative ways to do exercises online\nEstablishing psychological safety when people collaborate remotely is essential\, but can be hard to do\n\nIn the workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives\, we will practice leading retrospectives while fostering psychological safety using exercises that keep people involved. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective Facilitators\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile Teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nAnybody who is involved in agile retrospectives\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to get more value from doing (remote) agile retrospectives. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore unproductive behavior in retrospectives and learn to recognize retrospective smells or anti-patterns\nDevelop your facilitation skills for leading retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for in-person and distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in retrospectives and what can be done to keep people involved\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive online live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until two weeks before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAll attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Bingo\, and a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Smells Cards. (value €30). \n \nTestimonials\nThe below testimonials come from the many workshops on agile retrospectives that I have done over the years. \n“The workshop presented in a clear way why retrospectives are the driving force to an organization which wants to improve. Using some playful exercises I learned several easy ways to extract the current status of the team and how to decide which should be the next steps to address potential problems and risks” \nNikolaos Raptis – Scrum Master – Software Developer at Scytl Secure Electronic Voting \n“I got a better understanding of retrospectives and many ideas on how to use them in my work. I can suggest this workshop to anyone that wants to go agile.  Also thanks for the reading material\, I found it very helpful.” \nBill Souliotis – Manager Software Research & Development Graphics User Interface at BETA CAE Systems \n“After working together for many years\, our team (myself included) grew out of the need for formal retrospectives. This workshop helped to get some fresh ideas that can refuel our retros and stressed some key points about the necessity and importance of facilitation in these events.” \nYorgos Saslis – Solution Design Executive at CytechMobile.com \n“I’d like to thank you again for your excellent workshop. It was fun and I already started using some of the ideas with my team. The change is definitely notable.” \nLiran Ben-Porat\, qSpark LTD \n“Thanks once again for a wonderful workshop! We have a lot of useful outputs which we are going to implement. And thanks for the free copy of your book about the retrospectives\, now we are able to go through the topics once again and do the exercises in our company.” \nJakub Grós\, Project Engineer at Honeywell \n“I found the workshop very useful. We’ve already started to experiment with some action items we gave ourselves in the workshop\, doing changes in our overall retrospective approach. We are also trying out cross facilitation\, having our retrospectives facilitated by a Scrum master of another team.” \nSimona Humpolová\, Scrum master at EmbedIT \nI have taken some of my Scrum masters to Ben’s retrospective training. I like the training very much\, and also his website which contains many retro techniques. I still use this as a reference when I coach people. \nZoltán Ludányi\, Agile Software Development Consultant \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-facilitating-effective-retrospectives-august-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230602
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
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LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T102604Z
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SUMMARY:Continuous Improvement in Remote and Distributed Teams
DESCRIPTION:I’m giving an online workshop to practice continuous improvement in remote and distributed teams on May 31 and June 1 in collaboration with Agile Actors #learning. \nSign up for Continuous Improvement in Remote and Distributed Teams. \nRemote and Distributed Teams\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. \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 synchronizing 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. \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\nWhat will you learn\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\nAbout the Instructor\nBen Linders runs a one-person business in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\, What Drives Quality\, The Agile Self-assessment Game\, Problem? What Problem?\, and Continuous Improvement. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools\, for example\, the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nBen is a well-known speaker and author; he’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. \nSchedule\nNext virtual session has been scheduled for 31 May & 1 June 2023\, 10:00 – 14:00 EEST \nAbout Agile 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/continuous-improvement-in-remote-and-distributed-teams/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Greece,Improve Organizational Agility,Netherlands,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230413
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SUMMARY:Workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives
DESCRIPTION:Learn how you can facilitate retrospectives\, practice exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in retrospectives in the online workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives on April 12\, 2023. \nA one-day interactive workshop for €350 +VAT. \n \n \nFacilitating Retrospectives\nAgile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting at the end of each iteration to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions in the next iteration. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nFacilitating retrospectives can be hard. As a facilitator you need to: \n\nSet the stage where people get into a reflection and learning mode\nDo exercises that get people involved and bring out issues that the team wants to work on\nEstablish psychological safety for people to be open about what bothers them\nRecognize and deal with retrospective smells or anti-patterns when they happen\nGuide the team to come up with their vital few actions to make change happen\n\nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\nIt’s more difficult to foster productive and collaborative behavior and keep everyone involved during the meeting\nNot physically being together calls for different retrospective exercises or innovative ways to do exercises online\nEstablishing psychological safety when people collaborate remotely is essential\, but can be hard to do\n\nIn the workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives\, we will practice leading retrospectives while fostering psychological safety using exercises that keep people involved. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective Facilitators\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile Teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nAnybody who is involved in agile retrospectives\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to get more value from doing (remote) agile retrospectives. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore unproductive behavior in retrospectives and learn to recognize retrospective smells or anti-patterns\nDevelop your facilitation skills for leading retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for in-person and distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in retrospectives and what can be done to keep people involved\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive online live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until two weeks before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAll attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Bingo\, and a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Smells Cards. (value €30). \n \nTestimonials\nThe below testimonials come from the many workshops on agile retrospectives that I have done over the years. \n“The workshop presented in a clear way why retrospectives are the driving force to an organization which wants to improve. Using some playful exercises I learned several easy ways to extract the current status of the team and how to decide which should be the next steps to address potential problems and risks” \nNikolaos Raptis – Scrum Master – Software Developer at Scytl Secure Electronic Voting \n“I got a better understanding of retrospectives and many ideas on how to use them in my work. I can suggest this workshop to anyone that wants to go agile.  Also thanks for the reading material\, I found it very helpful.” \nBill Souliotis – Manager Software Research & Development Graphics User Interface at BETA CAE Systems \n“After working together for many years\, our team (myself included) grew out of the need for formal retrospectives. This workshop helped to get some fresh ideas that can refuel our retros and stressed some key points about the necessity and importance of facilitation in these events.” \nYorgos Saslis – Solution Design Executive at CytechMobile.com \n“I’d like to thank you again for your excellent workshop. It was fun and I already started using some of the ideas with my team. The change is definitely notable.” \nLiran Ben-Porat\, qSpark LTD \n“Thanks once again for a wonderful workshop! We have a lot of useful outputs which we are going to implement. And thanks for the free copy of your book about the retrospectives\, now we are able to go through the topics once again and do the exercises in our company.” \nJakub Grós\, Project Engineer at Honeywell \n“I found the workshop very useful. We’ve already started to experiment with some action items we gave ourselves in the workshop\, doing changes in our overall retrospective approach. We are also trying out cross facilitation\, having our retrospectives facilitated by a Scrum master of another team.” \nSimona Humpolová\, Scrum master at EmbedIT \nI have taken some of my Scrum masters to Ben’s retrospective training. I like the training very much\, and also his website which contains many retro techniques. I still use this as a reference when I coach people. \nZoltán Ludányi\, Agile Software Development Consultant \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-facilitating-effective-retrospectives-april-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230411
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230412
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
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SUMMARY:Workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can practice your problem-solving skills and learn how to deal with agile impediments. Join me on April 11\, 2023\, for the live workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices. \nA one-day workshop for €350 + VAT. \n \nProblem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\nTeams will face problems in their daily work. Agile calls these problems impediments. Impediments can be something in the way of working\, be it processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They slow down teams or block the delivery of products or services. \nTeams need to be able to deal with impediments as they have an impact on the flow of work\, they are problems that reduce outputs and results. \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. In the workshop Problems Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\, you will learn how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems effectively and faster using agile thinking and practices. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nRecognizing signals of problems\, and creating safety in teams for people to bring up problems\nAnalyzing problems picking one technique: causal analysis\, blameless post-mortems\, retrospectives\, swarming\, or blocker analysis\nManaging impediments using techniques from Lean & Kanban; decide how to solve them and who should be involved\nUsing coaching and games to improve collaboration and develop problem-solving skills\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore how to handle impediments effectively and faster and practice our problem-solving skills. \nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome able to create a blameless culture where signals are spotted more easily and problems are brought up sooner\nDevelop your skills for analyzing problems to get a deep understanding\nExplore ways to take action and follow up to remove problems or mitigate the impact\nLearn how to collaboratively deal with impediments in your team and organization\nExplore ways to prevent problems from happening again in the future\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \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. \nCancellations 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 spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-problem-solving-with-agile-thinking-and-practices-april-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230318
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
CREATED:20221219T112525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221219T112525Z
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SUMMARY:Retrospective Facilitators Gathering 2023
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, a group of us who are passionate about retrospective facilitation gather to share observations\, grow our skills and work out things that are puzzling us. It’s a small\, invitation-only gathering\, which provides opportunities for very focused and high-density learning\, not to mention a bit of fun and interaction with our peers. \nThe Retrospective Facilitators Gathering is a yearly Open Space conference by and for experienced practitioners in agile retrospectives. People from all over the world come to this gathering to share experiences and ideas and to learn from other facilitators. \nOver the years I’ve learned a lot at the RFGs that I attended. It’s great to be among peers who share their experiences. The open space format enables relevant topics to pop up\, both for group and one-to-one sessions. \nThis year the Retrospective Facilitators Gathering (RFG) will be near Prague\, Czech Republic. I’m attending it to share my upcoming book Valuable Agile Retrospectives\, learn new exercises and techniques\, and sharpen my facilitator and (retrospective) teaching skills. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/retrospective-facilitators-gathering-2023/
LOCATION:Golf Resort Konopiste\, Benesov\, Bystřice 27\, Bystřice\, 256 01\, Czech Republic
CATEGORIES:Conference,Czech Republic,Retrospectives Agility,Retrospectives Teams
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230308
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SUMMARY:Workshop Fostering an Agile Culture
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can practice culture change\, learn how to increase team autonomy and morale\, and explore using retrospectives to keep your agile journey going smoothly. Join me on March 8\, 2023\, for the live workshop Fostering an Agile Culture. \nA one-day online workshop for €350 + VAT. \nFostering an Agile Culture\nAdopting agile often doesn’t live up to its promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. The missing ingredients that cause failure often have to do with an insufficient agile mindset and difficulties in changing to a culture of agile thinking and acting. An agile culture is a foundation for an agile way of working and a successful agile journey\, it is a key factor that you need to work on. \nIn this workshop\, we’ll explore how organizations can visualize their culture. We learn how organizations can foster a mindset and culture change toward agility and how they can apply agile practices and 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 agile journey going in the right direction. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nVisualize your existing agile culture and see the need and possibilities for culture change\nShare agile strengths and challenges to explore what it takes for an agile culture and mindset\nExperience how gamification can be used to improve the team’s autonomy and morale\nPractice retrospective techniques to reflect and find ways to improve your agile journey\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore how to create conditions for culture change and use this to increase the agility of organizations. \nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live online 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. \nCancellations 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 free downloadable copies of the Culture Cards and the Impediment Board Game (value €25). \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-fostering-an-agile-culture-march-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Improve Organizational Agility,online,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230307
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230308
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230216T083247Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Self-assessing your Agility
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 March 7\, 2023\, for this live online workshop. \nA one-day workshop for €350. \n \n \nSelf-assessing your Agility\nIn the workshop Self-assessing your Agility\, you will practice games and exercises to explore how agile your teams are. \nWe’ll be playing The Agile Self-Assessment Game\, a serious game used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing this game enables professionals to reflect on collaboration and team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. With this game\, they can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nNext\, you’ll learn how to create an “agile map” that inspires you with ideas for increasing your agility and provides suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. \nIn this workshop\, you will experience different playing formats of The Agile Self-assessment Game. You’ll hear about the importance of pre-selecting cards to create focused card decks and find out about different exercises that can be used to self-assess and play your agile journey. \nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you to increase your agility. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to explore your way of working and take the next steps on your agile journey. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore what agile and agility means and the benefits that they can bring\nUnderstand the power of engagement and invitation-based agile adoption approaches\nExperience how you can self-assess the agility of teams and organizations\nPlay the Agile Self-assessment Game using different playing formats and card decks\nLearn ways for planning and traveling your own agile journey\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can play the games and get fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nThe workshop Assessing your Agility is based on the Agile Self-assessment Game. All attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the Agile Self-Assessment Game and the ebook ‘The Agile Self-assessment Game’ (value €30). \n \nTestimonials\nThis is what people say who played the Agile Self-assessment Game: \nThe cards help to get the team out of the daily work and daily mindset. \nThis is a wonderful way to get your team talking about how they are “being” agile! \nThe game really did add value and I got some real insight into the thoughts of people. \nBen’s Agile Assessment game is easy to adopt and easy for teams to pick up. \nWe realized our agile maturity level\, recognized actionable improvements and had great fun and insights! \nPlaying the game builds clarity and alignment on what Agile means to everyone on the team and helps team members meaningfully evaluate their agility. \nIt’s a great tool to use for a retrospective. \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-self-assessing-your-agility-march-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,online,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230210
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
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SUMMARY:Workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives
DESCRIPTION:Learn how you can facilitate retrospectives\, practice exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in retrospectives in the online workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives on February 9\, 2023. \nA one-day interactive workshop for €450. \n \n \nFacilitating Retrospectives\nAgile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting at the end of each iteration to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions in the next iteration. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nFacilitating retrospectives can be hard. As a facilitator you need to: \n\nSet the stage where people get into a reflection and learning mode\nDo exercises that get people involved and bring out issues that the team wants to work on\nEstablish psychological safety for people to be open about what bothers them\nRecognize and deal with retrospective smells or anti-patterns when they happen\nGuide the team to come up with their vital few actions to make change happen\n\nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\nIt’s more difficult to foster productive and collaborative behavior and keep everyone involved during the meeting\nNot physically being together calls for different retrospective exercises or innovative ways to do exercises online\nEstablishing psychological safety when people collaborate remotely is essential\, but can be hard to do\n\nIn the workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives\, we will practice leading retrospectives while fostering psychological safety using exercises that keep people involved. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective Facilitators\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile Teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nAnybody who is involved in agile retrospectives\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to get more value from doing (remote) agile retrospectives. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore unproductive behavior in retrospectives and learn to recognize retrospective smells or anti-patterns\nDevelop your facilitation skills for leading retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for in-person and distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in retrospectives and what can be done to keep people involved\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive online live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until two weeks before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAll attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Bingo\, and a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Smells Cards. (value €30). \n \nTestimonials\nThe below testimonials come from the many workshops on agile retrospectives that I have done over the years. \n“The workshop presented in a clear way why retrospectives are the driving force to an organization which wants to improve. Using some playful exercises I learned several easy ways to extract the current status of the team and how to decide which should be the next steps to address potential problems and risks” \nNikolaos Raptis – Scrum Master – Software Developer at Scytl Secure Electronic Voting \n“I got a better understanding of retrospectives and many ideas on how to use them in my work. I can suggest this workshop to anyone that wants to go agile.  Also thanks for the reading material\, I found it very helpful.” \nBill Souliotis – Manager Software Research & Development Graphics User Interface at BETA CAE Systems \n“After working together for many years\, our team (myself included) grew out of the need for formal retrospectives. This workshop helped to get some fresh ideas that can refuel our retros and stressed some key points about the necessity and importance of facilitation in these events.” \nYorgos Saslis – Solution Design Executive at CytechMobile.com \n“I’d like to thank you again for your excellent workshop. It was fun and I already started using some of the ideas with my team. The change is definitely notable.” \nLiran Ben-Porat\, qSpark LTD \n“Thanks once again for a wonderful workshop! We have a lot of useful outputs which we are going to implement. And thanks for the free copy of your book about the retrospectives\, now we are able to go through the topics once again and do the exercises in our company.” \nJakub Grós\, Project Engineer at Honeywell \n“I found the workshop very useful. We’ve already started to experiment with some action items we gave ourselves in the workshop\, doing changes in our overall retrospective approach. We are also trying out cross facilitation\, having our retrospectives facilitated by a Scrum master of another team.” \nSimona Humpolová\, Scrum master at EmbedIT \nI have taken some of my Scrum masters to Ben’s retrospective training. I like the training very much\, and also his website which contains many retro techniques. I still use this as a reference when I coach people. \nZoltán Ludányi\, Agile Software Development Consultant \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-facilitating-effective-retrospectives-february-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230209
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
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SUMMARY:Workshop Fostering an Agile Culture
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can practice culture change\, learn how to increase team autonomy and morale\, and explore using retrospectives to keep your agile journey going smoothly. Join me on February 8\, 2023\, for the live workshop Fostering an Agile Culture. \nA one-day online workshop for €450. \nFostering an Agile Culture\nAdopting agile often doesn’t live up to its promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. The missing ingredients that cause failure often have to do with an insufficient agile mindset and difficulties in changing to a culture of agile thinking and acting. An agile culture is a foundation for an agile way of working and a successful agile journey\, it is a key factor that you need to work on. \nIn this workshop\, we’ll explore how organizations can visualize their culture. We learn how organizations can foster a mindset and culture change toward agility and how they can apply agile practices and 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 agile journey going in the right direction. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nVisualize your existing agile culture and see the need and possibilities for culture change\nShare agile strengths and challenges to explore what it takes for an agile culture and mindset\nExperience how gamification can be used to improve the team’s autonomy and morale\nPractice retrospective techniques to reflect and find ways to improve your agile journey\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore how to create conditions for culture change and use this to increase the agility of organizations. \nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop of 4 hours. \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. \nCancellations 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 free downloadable copies of the Culture Cards and the Impediment Board Game (value €25). \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-fostering-an-agile-culture-february-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Improve Organizational Agility,online,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230208
DTSTAMP:20260501T063017
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SUMMARY:Workshop Self-assessing your Agility
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 February 7\, 2023\, for this live online workshop. \nA one-day workshop for €450. \n \n \nSelf-assessing your Agility\nIn the workshop Self-assessing your Agility\, you will practice games and exercises to explore how agile your teams are. \nWe’ll be playing The Agile Self-Assessment Game\, a serious game used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing this game enables professionals to reflect on collaboration and team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. With this game\, they can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nNext\, you’ll learn how to create an “agile map” that inspires you with ideas for increasing your agility and provides suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. \nIn this workshop\, you will experience different playing formats of The Agile Self-assessment Game. You’ll hear about the importance of pre-selecting cards to create focused card decks and find out about different exercises that can be used to self-assess and play your agile journey. \nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you to increase your agility. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to explore your way of working and take the next steps on your agile journey. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore what agile and agility means and the benefits that they can bring\nUnderstand the power of engagement and invitation-based agile adoption approaches\nExperience how you can self-assess the agility of teams and organizations\nPlay the Agile Self-assessment Game using different playing formats and card decks\nLearn ways for planning and traveling your own agile journey\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can play the games and get fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nThe workshop Assessing your Agility is based on the Agile Self-assessment Game. All attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the Agile Self-Assessment Game and the ebook ‘The Agile Self-assessment Game’ (value €30). \n \nTestimonials\nThis is what people say who played the Agile Self-assessment Game: \nThe cards help to get the team out of the daily work and daily mindset. \nThis is a wonderful way to get your team talking about how they are “being” agile! \nThe game really did add value and I got some real insight into the thoughts of people. \nBen’s Agile Assessment game is easy to adopt and easy for teams to pick up. \nWe realized our agile maturity level\, recognized actionable improvements and had great fun and insights! \nPlaying the game builds clarity and alignment on what Agile means to everyone on the team and helps team members meaningfully evaluate their agility. \nIt’s a great tool to use for a retrospective. \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-self-assessing-agility-feb-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,online,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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