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SUMMARY:Self-assessments and Fostering an Agile Culture at DevOpsCon London 2022
DESCRIPTION:I’ll be doing a workshop and a session at DevOpsCon London 2022: Fostering an Agile Culture and Getting People Engaged into Agile with Self-Assessments. \nDevOpsCon London is a hybrid conference with attendees on-site and remote joining sessions. I will give live demos of the games\, exercises\, and coaching tools\, followed by a Q&A. \nWorkshop Fostering an Agile Culture\nMany DevOps transformations do not live up to the agile promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. The missing ingredients in transformations that fail often have to do with an insufficient agile mindset and difficulties in changing to a culture of DevOps thinking and acting. An agile delivery culture is a foundation for a DevOps journey\, it is a key success factor that you need to work on. \nIn this workshop\, we’ll explore how organizations can visualize their culture and self-assess their DevOps agility. We learn about how organizations can foster a mindset and culture change toward DevOps and how they are applying DevOps capabilities to deliver value frequently and fast. \nNext\, we’ll explore how team autonomy and morale can be increased by playing the Agile Impediment Board Game. Finally\, we’ll see how agile retrospectives can be used to establish continuous improvement with effective communication and collaboration\, to keep your DevOps journey going in the right direction. \nMain takeaways \n\nLearn how to visualize your existing Agile DevOps culture and see the need for culture change\nShare DevOps strengths and challenges to explore what can be done to foster an agile delivery culture\nExperience how gamification can be used to improve teams in dealing with impediments\nPractice retrospective techniques to reflect and find ways to improve your DevOps delivery mindset and pipelines\n\nGetting People Engaged into Agile with Self-Assessments\nImposing agile doesn’t work! Let’s explore how we can use engagement models and gamification to involve people in the change process and help them define and travel their own agile journey. We will play the Agile Self-Assessment Game to experience how to enable people to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits their needs. \nMany agile “transformations” are failing\, where one of the main reasons is how they are imposing agile models and practices on people. Such an approach conflicts with the agile values and principles\, it’s incongruent and hence ineffective. \nEngagement models take a different approach\, they involve people in the change process and help them to define and travel their own agile journey. \nPlaying the Agile Self-Assessment Game enables teams to reflect on their own team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. With this card game\, they can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nJoin us to explore the Agile Self-Assessment Game and try out different playing scenarios. \nRetrospecting your Retrospectives – Cancelled due to workshop on April 26\nAre your retrospective meetings not helping teams to improve? Same actions coming up every time? Do people skip them\, or find them boring? Is there a lack of energy in the room? There’s no need for that! Let’s retrospect your retrospectives! \nThis session provides you with ideas to debug your agile retrospectives to find out when and why they aren’t working and learn how to spice them up and make them valuable again. \nIn this mini-workshop\, you will experience how to use retrospective exercises to debug your retrospective meetings. People will work in teams to reflect how their retrospectives are going and will learn what they can do to make them valuable again. \nIt’s a highly interactive session\, learning by doing. I’ll bring in my experience from 19 years of doing agile retrospectives\, and will set a culture where people will share their ideas and learn. \nDevOpsCon London\nEvery year in April\, DevOps Conference London is the go-to event for DevOps enthusiasts. \nThis year\, too\, we look forward to meeting you again! \nBecause we want to ensure that the lively exchange of knowledge and ideas so typical of DevOps London continues to work well\, we were one of the first in the conference industry to develop our hybrid concept. \nYou can choose to “attend” the conference either on site or online from your home or office. In order to be accessible to all participants\, all DevOps tracks will be streamed live. Using professional video technology\, all lectures and workshops will be broadcast live. And that’s not all: You can also get in touch with our speakers and expo partners\, even if you won’t be there! \nOf course\, the necessary hygiene and distance measures will be taken care of in the conference hotel. For this purpose\, we carefully monitor the number of participants. \nAs you can see – thanks to the innovative program and the numerous networking opportunities\, the upcoming DevOps London will provide the ideal framework for your continuing education. Whether on site in London or digitally – the choice is yours! \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/self-assessments-retrospectives-devopscon-london-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,online,UK,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives - Live Online
DESCRIPTION:Learn how you can run remote retrospectives\, practice online exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in distributed retrospectives in the online workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives on March 31\, 2022. \nA one-day virtual workshop for €450. \n \n \nFacilitating Remote Retrospectives\nAgile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting at the end of each iteration to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions in the next iteration. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\nRecognizing and dealing with retrospective smells or anti-patterns is hard in online meetings (but it can be done!)\nIt’s more difficult to foster productive and collaborative behavior and keep everyone involved during the meeting\nNot physically being together calls for different retrospective exercises or innovative ways to do exercises online\nPsychological safety is a key issue in any retrospective\, it’s more challenging when people collaborate remotely\n\nIn the workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives\, we will practice doing remote retrospectives while fostering psychological safety using exercises that keep people involved. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective Facilitators\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile Teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nAnybody who is involved in agile retrospectives\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to get more value from doing remote agile retrospectives. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore unproductive behavior in retrospectives and learn to recognize retrospective smells or anti-patterns\nDevelop your facilitation skills for running remote retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in online meetings and what can be done to keep people involved\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive online live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until two weeks before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAll attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Bingo\, and a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Smells Cards. (value €30). \n \nTestimonials\nBelow testimonials come from the many workshops on agile retrospectives that I have done over the years. \n“The workshop presented in a clear way why retrospectives are the driving force to an organization which wants to improve. Using some playful exercises I learned several easy ways to extract the current status of the team and how to decide which should be the next steps to address potential problems and risks” \nNikolaos Raptis – Scrum Master – Software Developer at Scytl Secure Electronic Voting \n“I got a better understanding of retrospectives and many ideas on how to use them in my work. I can suggest this workshop to anyone that wants to go agile.  Also thanks for the reading material\, I found it very helpful.” \nBill Souliotis – Manager Software Research & Development Graphics User Interface at BETA CAE Systems \n“After working together for many years\, our team (myself included) grew out of the need for formal retrospectives. This workshop helped to get some fresh ideas that can refuel our retros and stressed some key points about the necessity and importance of facilitation in these events.” \nYorgos Saslis – Solution Design Executive at CytechMobile.com \n“I’d like to thank you again for your excellent workshop. It was fun and I already started using some of the ideas with my team. The change is definitely notable.” \nLiran Ben-Porat\, qSpark LTD \n“Thanks once again for a wonderful workshop! We have a lot of useful outputs which we are going to implement. And thanks for the free copy of your book about the retrospectives\, now we are able to go through the topics once again and do the exercises in our company.” \nJakub Grós\, Project Engineer at Honeywell \n“I found the workshop very useful. We’ve already started to experiment with some action items we gave ourselves in the workshop\, doing changes in our overall retrospective approach. We are also trying out cross facilitation\, having our retrospectives facilitated by a Scrum master of another team.” \nSimona Humpolová\, Scrum master at EmbedIT \nI have taken some of my Scrum masters to Ben’s retrospective training. I like the training very much\, and also his website which contains many retro techniques. I still use this as a reference when I coach people. \nZoltán Ludányi\, Agile Software Development Consultant \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/facilitating-remote-retrospectives-march-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop Self-assessing your Agility – Live Online
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you learn how to assess your agility using gamification and take the next steps on your agile journey: Join me on March 30\, 2022\, for this live online workshop. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until March 1: €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-assessing-agility-live-online-march-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,online,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220318
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SUMMARY:Workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices – Live Online
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can practice your problem-solving skills and learn how to deal with agile impediments. Join me on March 17\, 2022\, for the live online workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird extended until March 4: €350. \n \nProblem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\nTeams will face problems in their daily work. Agile calls these problems impediments. Impediments can be something in the way of working\, be it processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They slow down teams or block the delivery of products or services. \nTeams need to be able to deal with impediments as they have an impact on the flow of work\, they are problems that reduce outputs and results. \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. In the workshop Problems Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\, you will learn how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems effectively and faster using agile thinking and practices. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nRecognizing signals of problems\, and creating safety in teams for people to bring up problems\nAnalyzing problems picking one technique: causal analysis\, blameless post-mortems\, retrospectives\, swarming\, or blocker analysis\nManaging impediments using techniques from Lean & Kanban; decide how to solve them and who should be involved\nUsing coaching and games to improve collaboration and develop problem-solving skills\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore how to handle impediments effectively and faster and practice our problem-solving skills. \nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome able to create a blameless culture where signals are spotted more easily and problems are brought up sooner\nDevelop your skills for analyzing problems to get a deep understanding\nExplore ways to take action and follow up to remove problems or mitigate the impact\nLearn how to collaboratively deal with impediments in your team and organization\nExplore ways to prevent problems from happening again in the future\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop 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. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAttendees of this workshop will get a free ebook copy of Problem? What problem? – Dealing Effectively with Impediments using Agile Thinking with Problem-solving Practices and a downloadable copy of the Impediment Board Game (value €30). \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-problem-solving-agile-thinking-practices-march-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Increasing Psychological Safety in Agile Teams - Agile Humans meetup
DESCRIPTION:Agile Humans has invited me to their Agile Lean Coffee meetup to facilitate a session on increasing psychological safety in agile teams. Come join om on March 3\, 18:30 CET\, to play a game with the Psychological Safety Cards. \nIncreasing Psychological Safety in Agile Teams\nPsychological safety in teams is important; it is necessary for the team to be able to communicate and collaborate effectively in order to deliver value. It’s also necessary to build long-lasting teams since things will happen and relationships will be strained; team members must be informed of what’s going on in the team and feel comfortable dealing with it. But\, 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 a game for psychological safety and team culture utilizing a deck of coaching cards. We will learn how to use gamification to gain a better understanding of what’s going on in teams. Individuals can share what they have learned from working in teams\, how it impacted the team’s safety and culture\, and what led to positive change. \nWe’ll use a Jamboard for the game\, so you will need a Google account to join the Jamboard. All participants will receive a code along with a discount for buying the cards (more information at Agile Humans: Your copy of the Psychological Safety cards). \nAgile Humans Lean Coffee Meetup\nThis is a group for anyone interested in Agile organizational culture and agile practices. \nAgile Humans Lean Coffee is committed to improving the quality and quantity of the first Agile manifesto value: Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools. \nWe help each other improve our work by teaching each other what we’ve learned through practice. \nWe gather online\, on the first Thursday of every month\, at 6:30 p.m.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/increasing-psychological-safety-in-agile-teams-agile-humans-meetup/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Meetup,online,Serbia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220204
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
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SUMMARY:Improving Your Quality and Testing Skills with Gamification at OOP 2022
DESCRIPTION:I’m doing a session at OOP 2022 to explore how gamification can be used to improve quality and testing skills. Join me online on February 2\, 2022. \nImproving Your Quality and Testing Skills with Gamification\nSo many challenges\, so little time. As testers or quality engineers\, 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. \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 quality and testing practice and decide as a team on what to improve or experiment with. \nTarget Audience: Testers\, Agile Teams\, Tech Leads\, Technical Coaches\, Scrum Masters\nPrerequisites: None\nLevel: Advanced \nExtended Abstract \nThe Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards are a deck of cards with statements that help people to share and reflect. Examples of cards are “Testers help developers design acceptance criteria for user stories”\, “Failing tests get proper attention even when no defect in the product has been detected”\, and “Refactoring is done to keep code maintainable and reduce technical debt”. \nPlaying games with these coaching cards (onsite or online)\, you can learn from each other. Teams can use the coaching cards to discuss quality and testing values\, principles\, and practices\, and share their experiences and learnings. \nDifferent game formats can be used to share experiences on testing and quality principles and practices and explore how they can be applied effectively. The playing formats from the Agile Self-assessment Game (benlinders.com/game) can be used to play with these cards. This presentation provides an overview of playing formats and will inspire you to come up with your own formats. \nFacilitation is key when playing with these coaching cards. Ben Linders will present how to prepare a game session and facilitate it\, what can be done to keep people engaged\, and how debriefing can help to pull out learnings and ideas for improvement. \nTakeaways: \n– Show how to use gamification to self-assess your current way of working. \n– Present examples of playing games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards. \n– Explore how facilitating games can help to enhance quality and testing in agile teams. \nOOP\nIT professionals who are responsible for software architecture\, IT projects\, and sophisticated programming and development rely on the OOP conference – one of the most well-known and largest software conferences in the German-speaking world – when it comes to their professional development. \nThis makes OOP conference a fixed date in the calendar for the software community\, even digitally. The latest trends from the field of software technology as well as practice-oriented presentations by experienced and recognized speakers who will share their knowledge\, enthusiasm and also their concerns with you.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/improving-your-quality-and-testing-skills-with-gamification-at-oop-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Germany,online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220105T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220105T210000
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
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SUMMARY:How to start up a distributed team online with gamification - Agile Belgium
DESCRIPTION:I’m doing an interactive online meetup about starting up distributed teams online using gamification for Agile Belgium\, January 5\, 2022\, 19:00 CET. \nHow to start up a distributed team online with gamification\nRemote first is becoming the norm\, and this is also true for new teams. Where you would previously organize one or more onsite kick-off sessions to start a new team\, a new distributed team would have to be working online together from day 1. \nTechniques used for team chartering might still be useful\, but they would need a different approach for online working. Gamification\, incentifying people’s engagement by using game-style principles and practices\, can help you to build strong teams. \nIn this session\, we’ll look at several tools and playing formats that can be used to start up distributed teams and foster further development. \nAgile Belgium\nThis is the meetup group of the Agile Belgium community. We organize regular drinkups and user group meetings. Come after work and meet people you usually only meet at conferences. Anyone interested in Agile or Lean can join. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/how-to-start-up-a-distributed-team-online-with-gamification-agile-belgium/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Belgium,Meetup,online
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211203
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210809T074452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T185818Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Improving Organizational Agility at DevOpsCon Munich 2021 [Sold out]
DESCRIPTION:At DevOpsCon Munich I will give a full-day workshop on Improving Organizational Agility on December 2\, 2021. Book your ticket for DevOpsCon Munich. \nNote: This workshop is sold-out! \nAlternative offering: Improving Organizational Agility – Virtual course on November 18-19 \nAgile Workshop: Improving Organization Agility\nLearn to apply agile throughout your organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster with better quality\, and improve organizational agility! \nIn the workshop Improving Organizational Agility\, you will experience how your organization can become more agile. Practice creating an environment that enables teams and empower them to apply agile practices. Learn to establish an agile collaborative mindset throughout the organization. Create a culture that supports collaboration and which motivates people to work together to create high-quality products and services. The 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. \nThis workshop is intended for:\n•    Agile and DevOps Coaches\n•    Agile Consultants and Change Managers\n•    Anybody who is supporting teams in DevOps implementations or agile transformations\n•    Technical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\n•    Product Owners and Project/Line Managers \nDevOpsCon Munich\nThe Conference for Continuous Delivery\, Microservices\, Containers\, Cloud & Lean Business. \nDevOps is fundamentally changing the IT world and leads the way to a successful business transformation. Attend DevOpsCon to learn about the latest tools\, technologies\, and methodologies you need to build and maintain secure\, scalable\, and resilient software systems. \nHow do cloud platforms\, microservices\, and Kubernetes work with extensive automation and continuous delivery? How can you handle increasing complexity in your organization and empower high-performance teams with the right tools and agile methodologies? DevOpsCon has the answers. \nAt DevOpsCon\, DevOps experts and thought leaders from around the world come together to share their insights. Join them in inspiring sessions and in-depth workshops to learn how you can push your DevOps skills to the next level.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-improving-organizational-agility-at-devopscon-munich-2021/
LOCATION:Hilton Hotel Munich Park\, Am Tucherpark 7\, Munich\, 80538\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Germany,Improve Organizational Agility,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="S&S Media":MAILTO:info@sandsmedia.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211201
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210201T135141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T192137Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives - Live Online
DESCRIPTION:Learn how you can run remote retrospectives\, practice online exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in distributed retrospectives in the online workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives on November 30\, 2021. \nA one-day virtual workshop for €450. Early bird until November 1: €350. \n \n \nFacilitating Remote Retrospectives\nAgile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting at the end of each iteration to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions in the next iteration. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\nRecognizing and dealing with retrospective smells or anti-patterns is hard in online meetings (but it can be done!)\nIt’s more difficult to foster productive and collaborative behavior and keep everyone involved during the meeting\nNot physically being together calls for different retrospective exercises or innovative ways to do exercises online\nPsychological safety is a key issue in any retrospective\, it’s more challenging when people collaborate remotely\n\nIn the workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives\, we will practice doing remote retrospectives while fostering psychological safety using exercises that keep people involved. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective Facilitators\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile Teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nAnybody who is involved in agile retrospectives\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to get more value from doing remote agile retrospectives. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore unproductive behavior in retrospectives and learn to recognize retrospective smells or anti-patterns\nDevelop your facilitation skills for running remote retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in online meetings and what can be done to keep people involved\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive online live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAll attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Bingo\, and a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Smells Cards. (value €30). \n \nTestimonials\nBelow testimonials come from the many workshops on agile retrospectives that I have done over the years. \n“The workshop presented in a clear way why retrospectives are the driving force to an organization which wants to improve. Using some playful exercises I learned several easy ways to extract the current status of the team and how to decide which should be the next steps to address potential problems and risks” \nNikolaos Raptis – Scrum Master – Software Developer at Scytl Secure Electronic Voting \n“I got a better understanding of retrospectives and many ideas on how to use them in my work. I can suggest this workshop to anyone that wants to go agile.  Also thanks for the reading material\, I found it very helpful.” \nBill Souliotis – Manager Software Research & Development Graphics User Interface at BETA CAE Systems \n“After working together for many years\, our team (myself included) grew out of the need for formal retrospectives. This workshop helped to get some fresh ideas that can refuel our retros and stressed some key points about the necessity and importance of facilitation in these events.” \nYorgos Saslis – Solution Design Executive at CytechMobile.com \n“I’d like to thank you again for your excellent workshop. It was fun and I already started using some of the ideas with my team. The change is definitely notable.” \nLiran Ben-Porat\, qSpark LTD \n“Thanks once again for a wonderful workshop! We have a lot of useful outputs which we are going to implement. And thanks for the free copy of your book about the retrospectives\, now we are able to go through the topics once again and do the exercises in our company.” \nJakub Grós\, Project Engineer at Honeywell \n“I found the workshop very useful. We’ve already started to experiment with some action items we gave ourselves in the workshop\, doing changes in our overall retrospective approach. We are also trying out cross facilitation\, having our retrospectives facilitated by a Scrum master of another team.” \nSimona Humpolová\, Scrum master at EmbedIT \nI have taken some of my Scrum masters to Ben’s retrospective training. I like the training very much\, and also his website which contains many retro techniques. I still use this as a reference when I coach people. \nZoltán Ludányi\, Agile Software Development Consultant \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/facilitating-remote-retrospectives-november-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211126
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20211002T092934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211002T092934Z
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SUMMARY:XP Days 2021
DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to XP Days to do an interactive session on starting up distributed teams online with gamification. Join me on November 25\, 2021\, online! \nHow to start up a distributed team online with gamification\nRemote first is becoming the norm\, and this is also true for new teams. Where you would previously organize one or more onsite kick-off sessions to start a new team\, a new distributed team would have to be working online together from day 1. \nTechniques used for team chartering might still be useful\, but they would need a different approach for online working. Gamification\, incentifying people’s engagement by using game-style principles and practices\, can help you to build strong teams. \nIn this session\, we’ll look at several tools and playing formats that can be used to start up distributed teams and foster further development. \nGoal of the session: Ideas for building stronger distributed teams\nSession Type: 60 min experiential learning session \nXP Days\nXP Days is a conference made for\, and by\, the Agile Community. \nIt focuses on practical knowledge\, real-world experience\, and the active participation of everyone. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/xp-days-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Belgium,Conference,Netherlands,online
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211125
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20191116T124759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211005T080138Z
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SUMMARY:Agile Workshop Valuable Retrospectives for Teams at DevOpsCon Singapore
DESCRIPTION:Learn new exercises for your agile retrospectives\, find out how to create a safe environment\, and improve your facilitation skills in the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams at DevOpsCon Singapore.  \nThis workshop was originally planned for 2020. Will be given on November 24 as an online full-day workshop. \nValuable Retrospectives for Teams\nAgile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting at the end of each iteration to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions in the next iteration. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams you will practice exercises for facilitating retrospectives in teams. \nA great way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participating in retrospectives. In this workshop\, you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to facilitate retrospectives. You will learn the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value\, and the benefits that they can bring to your team. \nWho should attend this workshop\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nIn this workshop\, you will design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to become more agile and lean. \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives\n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run retrospectives\nSkills for facilitating retrospectives\n\nDevOpsCon Singapore\nThe Conference for Continuous Delivery\, Microservices\, Containers\, Clouds and Lean Business. \nAt DevOpsCon\, you will meet internationally recognized thought leaders of the DevOps movement and benefit from their expertise. Attend inspiring sessions and in-depth workshops to learn what you need to push your DevOps skills to the next level.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-workshop-valuable-retrospectives-for-teams-at-devopscon-singapore/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Singapore,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="S&S Media":MAILTO:info@sandsmedia.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211120
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20201125T072324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T082654Z
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SUMMARY:Improving Organizational Agility – Virtual course
DESCRIPTION:I’m giving my popular workshop Improving Organizational Agility as an online virtual course on November 18 and 19\, 2021\, in collaboration with Agile Actors #learning. Sign up. \n \nMany organizations are going through agile transformations. They are implementing Scrum or Kanban and using large-scale agile frameworks like Lean\, SAFe\, LeSS or DAD\, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. Unfortunately\, those transformations do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. \nImproving Organizational Agility\nThis 8-hour workshop aims in helping organizations: \n\nhaving difficulties to adjust themselves to shorten delivery times\nhaving products with quality issues and are losing customers\ndoing an agile/Scrum/Kanban transformation but not seeing the expected benefits\nunable to remove barriers that are blocking cross-organizational collaboration\ntrying to adopt agile but finding it hard to change the culture and mindset\nlooking for ways to apply agile practices more effectively and needs help with that\nnot able to improve in small but meaningful steps\non an agile journey but unsure where to go next or what would be the best thing to do\n\nWho should attend\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAgile Consultants and Change Managers\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help participants apply agile methods and frameworks effectively to increase organizational agility \nWhat will you learn\nParticipants of this 8-hour workshop will learn how to apply agile throughout their organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster with better quality\, and improve organizational agility\, and more specifically: \n\nPractice how to create an environment that enables teams and empower them to apply agile practices.\nLearn ways to establish an agile mindset throughout the organization.\nCreate a culture that supports collaboration and which motivates people to work together to create high-quality products and services.\n\nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you become more agile and lean. \nMoreover\, participants of this workshop are expected to: \n\nPractice how to assess their agility with Agile Self-assessments to find out how well they are doing\nLearn effective ways to travel their agile journey and find out what they need to do this\nGet ideas for improving collaboration and communication between teams and stakeholders and break down barriers\nLearn tips and tricks to expand and scale an agile way of working throughout the organization\nGet advice on selecting and applying agile and lean practices effectively\n\nAbout the Instructor\nBen Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\, What Drives Quality\, The Agile Self-assessment Game\, Problem? What Problem?\, and Continuous Improvement. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools\, for example\, the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nBen is a well-known speaker and author; he’s much respected for sharing his experiences and helping others share theirs. His books and games have been translated into more than 12 languages and are used by professionals in teams and organizations all around the world. \nAs an adviser\, trainer\, and coach\, he helps organizations with effectively deploying software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement\, collaboration and communication\, and professional development\, to deliver business value to customers. \nAgile Actors #learning\nAgile Actors #learning is the Learning Ecosystem for the ambitious and talented tech professional. From setting meaningful personal goals to getting personal coaching\, it helps you find your next career dot and deliver value to the real world. \nWe are helping Tech Professionals to combine theory with best practices as well as real-world experiences in order to grow and excel. \nOur courses\, developed by experienced Software Engineers\, Testers\, Agile Coaches focus on hands-on examples and projects to get you up to speed with any new technology\, tool or methodology. \nSchedule\nNext virtual session has been scheduled for 18 & 19 November 2021 10:00am – 2:00pm (EEST). Sign up.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/improving-organizational-agility-virtual-course-nov-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Greece,Improve Organizational Agility,online,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211109
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210216T075224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T192132Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Self-assessing your Agility – Live Online
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you learn how to assess your agility using gamification and take the next steps on your agile journey: Join me on November 8 for this live online workshop. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until October 17: €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-assessing-agility-live-online-november-2021/
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:20211104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211105
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210215T112714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210917T071722Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices – Live Online
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can practice your problem-solving skills and learn how to deal with agile impediments. Join me on November 4\, 2021\, for the live online workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until October 17: €350. \n \nProblem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\nTeams will face problems in their daily work. Agile calls these problems impediments. Impediments can be something in the way of working\, be it processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They slow down teams or block the delivery of products or services. \nTeams need to be able to deal with impediments as they have an impact on the flow of work\, they are problems that reduce outputs and results. \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. In the workshop Problems Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\, you will learn how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems effectively and faster using agile thinking and practices. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nRecognizing signals of problems\, and creating safety in teams for people to bring up problems\nAnalyzing problems picking one technique: causal analysis\, blameless post-mortems\, retrospectives\, swarming\, or blocker analysis\nManaging impediments using techniques from Lean & Kanban; decide how to solve them and who should be involved\nUsing coaching and games to improve collaboration and develop problem-solving skills\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore how to handle impediments effectively and faster and practice our problem-solving skills. \nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome able to create a blameless culture where signals are spotted more easily and problems are brought up sooner\nDevelop your skills for analyzing problems to get a deep understanding\nExplore ways to take action and follow up to remove problems or mitigate the impact\nLearn how to collaboratively deal with impediments in your team and organization\nExplore ways to prevent problems from happening again in the future\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop 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. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAttendees of this workshop will get a free ebook copy of Problem? What problem? – Dealing Effectively with Impediments using Agile Thinking with Problem-solving Practices and a downloadable copy of the Impediment Board Game (value €30). \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-problem-solving-agile-thinking-practices-november-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211022
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20211006T214048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211006T214048Z
UID:46159-1634774400-1634860799@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Psychological Safety: Panel at Agile Tour London 2021
DESCRIPTION:I’ve been invited to the panel discussion about psychological safety versus accountability at Agile Tour London on October 21. \n \nPsychological Safety vs. Accountability\nWe’re thrilled to announce the other panel for this year’s event: PsychologicalSafety vs Accountability\, served up over a #livestream with Gitte Klitgaard\, Andrea Dobson\, Leanne Creasey\, Han Cork\, and Ben Linders. \nThis discussion was inspired by our last event where some of the Container Solutions team facilitated a popular workshop on striking this crucial balance. What questions do you want us to ask? \nOr why not ask them yourself at this year’s #Agile Tour London #ATLDN\, our quirky 100% live event! https://lnkd.in/gXVqRnX \nIt will be a 45-minute livestreamed panel discussed (questions welcome in our Zoom chat!) followed by 15 minutes of unrecorded discussion to close out our 100% LIVE and Online two-day event. \nCan’t make it? Our two panels are the only part of our event shared live elsewhere. This panel on cultivating #PsychologicalWellbeing in your teams will be also streamed on our YouTube channel 12pm UK\, kicking off our event\, Thursday 21 October\, so do SUBSCRIBE! https://lnkd.in/dpDWs5rF \nAgile Tour London\nAs Agile enters its 20s\, it’s time we stop looking at it as a team-based or department-based activity\, or something just for IT. It is a collective mindset that must see us break down walls and work together towards organisational agility. It’s time to recognise each business has three pillars — people\, business and technology — and that organisations will topple without focusing on all three working together toward shared objectives. \nIn its ninth year\, Agile Tour London will continue to expand our own goals around breaking silos and increasing communication. And as we’ve done with the last four unique online events\, it will be completely LIVE and intentionally interactive\, with keynotes\, panels and talks recorded in Zoom Meeting\, and all workshops\, after-talk discussions and networking activities unrecorded in our self-organised virtual venue Spatial.Chat. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/psychological-safety-panel-at-agile-tour-london-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,online,Panel,UK
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211004
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211008
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210406T160352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210425T182209Z
UID:44946-1633305600-1633651199@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Improving Organizational Agility at XA2021
DESCRIPTION:I’m giving my workshop Improving Organizational Agility at the Experience Agile week (XA2021) as a three-day online workshop. Book your seat at eXperience Agile. \nImproving Organizational Agility\nIn the workshop Improving Organizational Agility\, you will learn how to apply agile practices throughout your organization to develop the right products and deliver faster with better quality to serve your customers! \nThis is an online interactive workshop where you will practice and experiment in small groups to learn techniques and gain insights on how your organization can become more agile: \n\nPractice how to create a psychologically safe environment that enables teams and empowers people to apply agile practices.\nLearn ways to establish an agile mindset and adopt flexible and effective ways of working 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 games\, exercises\, examples\, and suggestions to help you increase your 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 customer’s needs. Unfortunately\, many of those transformations do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. \nImproving organizational agility isn’t easy. But it can be done! \nIf your organization is: \n\nhaving difficulties adjusting itself to shorten delivery times\nhaving products with quality issues and is 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\nthen this is the workshop for you! \nLearning Objectives\nWhat will you get out of this workshop? \n\nPractice how to assess your agility with Agile Self-assessments to find out how well you are doing\nExplore how to establish an agile culture using Culture Cards and Psychological Safety Coaching Cards\nLearn effective ways to travel your agile journey and find out what you 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\nYou also receive \n\nOnline Course materials\nThe Agile Thinkers Academy attendance certificate\nThe Agile Thinkers Academy Community channel\nThe eXperience Agile Community channels\n\nTarget\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile Consultants and Change Managers\nProduct Owners\, Project Managers and other Managers/Leaders\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to apply agile methods and frameworks effectively to increase organizational agility. \nTestimonials\n“The workshop Getting More out of Agile and Lean was really interesting. I specially liked the product owner and team exercise\, the impediment game and the 1-word retrospective that we did. I learned when and how I can use them in my daily work.” \nBill Souliotis – Manager Software Research & Development Graphics User Interface at BETA CAE Systems \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“Nice to join a workshop in which the attendees and teacher actually have profound hands-on experience with agile.” \n“Immersive\, good choice of subjects\, well led.” \n“A lot of examples.” \n“Good useful interactions and learning from other participants.” \nAttendees from the GOTO Amsterdam workshop \n“I attended Ben’s workshop in Athens (Getting More out of Agile and Lean) and I can highly recommend it to all professionals that are serious about Scrum and about applying agile processes in real-world problems of software development. Especially for Product Owners and for Scrum Masters\, this training will help you and your organisation evolve to the next level. Thank you\, Ben!” \nKonstantinos Vasileiou – Certified Product Owner | Senior Business Analyst \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-improving-organizational-agility-xa2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Improve Organizational Agility,online,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210930
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211001
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210513T081645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210513T081645Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Leveraging the Benefits of Retrospectives at DevOpsCon New York
DESCRIPTION:Join my full-day workshop on Thursday\, September 30 at DevOpsCon New York to practice how to get more out of retrospectives to increase the agility of your teams. Workshop in collaboration with S&S Media\, get your ticket: Register. \nLeveraging the Benefits of Retrospectives\nAgile retrospectives are mostly known as a technique for a team to reflect and learn. This workshop builds on this and takes retrospectives to the organizational level. \nIn this workshop\, you will learn how to scale agile retrospectives by doing them with multiple teams from a project\, product\, or organization\, practice facilitation skills with different retrospective exercises\, and learn how you can introduce and improve retrospectives. You will also learn to do agile self-assessments and readiness checks\, and to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to increase their agility with DevOps. You will practice facilitation skills with different retrospective exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox. \nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile coaches and change agents\nScrum masters and retrospective facilitators\nTeam\, product or project managers\n(senior) managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nAttendees should have basic knowledge about agile retrospectives and some experience with facilitating retrospectives. \nDevOpsCon New York\nAt DevOpsCon\, DevOps experts and thought leaders from around the world come together to share their insights. Join them in inspiring sessions and in-depth workshops to learn how you can push your DevOps skills to the next level. \nSoftware & Support Media is an international publishing house with a focus on the IT sector. The company’s information and service offer is tailored to IT professionals of all important technology markets. \nOur portfolio covers conferences\, trainings\, specialised magazines\, online services and books. In Europe\, our media group ranks among the most comprehensive cross-media platforms of its kind. Over 100\,000 IT professionals of all branches and levels use our media to further their knowledge for making the best technological decisions and investments for their projects. \nHybrid conference\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! \nOf course\, the necessary hygiene and distance measures will be taken care of in the conference hotel. For this purpose\, we carefully monitor the number of participants. \nAs you can see – thanks to the innovative program and the numerous networking opportunities\, the upcoming DevOpsCon will provide the ideal framework for your continuing education. Whether on site in New York or digitally – the choice is yours!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-leveraging-the-benefits-of-retrospectives-at-devopscon-new-york/
LOCATION:Marriott Brooklyn Bridge\, New York\, 333 Adams St\, Bew York\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Agility,US,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="S&S Media":MAILTO:info@sandsmedia.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210930
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210809T072046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210809T073240Z
UID:45813-1632873600-1632959999@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Transformation Day workshop „Improving Organizational Agility”
DESCRIPTION:I’m giving a workshop on Improving Organizational Agility at the DevOpsCon New York Transformation Day on September 29. Get your ticket for DevOpsCon New York. \nTransformation Day workshop\nIn the Transformation Day workshop „Improving Organizational Agility”\, you will experience how your organization can become more agile and thus better prepared for a Devops Culture. Practice creating an environment that enables teams and empower them to apply agile practices. Learn to establish an agile collaborative mindset throughout the organization. Create a culture that supports collaboration and which motivates people to work together to create high-quality products and services. The 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. \nThe Transformation Day is intended for:\n•    Agile and DevOps Coaches\n•    Agile Consultants and Change Managers\n•    Anybody who is supporting teams in DevOps implementations or agile transformations\n•    Technical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\n•    Product Owners and Project/Line Managers \nDevOpsCon New York\nAt DevOpsCon\, DevOps experts and thought leaders from around the world come together to share their insights. Join them in inspiring sessions and in-depth workshops to learn how you can push your DevOps skills to the next level. \nSoftware & Support Media is an international publishing house with a focus on the IT sector. The company’s information and service offer is tailored to IT professionals of all important technology markets. \nOur portfolio covers conferences\, trainings\, specialised magazines\, online services and books. In Europe\, our media group ranks among the most comprehensive cross-media platforms of its kind. Over 100\,000 IT professionals of all branches and levels use our media to further their knowledge for making the best technological decisions and investments for their projects.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/transformation-day-workshop-improving-organizational-agility/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Improve Organizational Agility,online,US,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="S&S Media":MAILTO:info@sandsmedia.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210614
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210615
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210212T204613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210513T081658Z
UID:44435-1623628800-1623715199@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Agile workshop: Problem Solving with the right mindset and good Practices
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to deal effectively and faster with impediments and improve your problem-solving skills in the workshop Problems-Solving with the right mindset and good Practices on June 14\, 2021. \n \nProblem Solving with the right mindset and Good Practices\nImpediments can be something in the way of working\, be it processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They slow down teams or block the delivery of products or services. Agile can help to identify problems\, it tends to bring problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. \nTeams will face problems in their daily work. Agile calls these problems impediments. Teams need to be able to deal with impediments as they have an impact on the flow of work\, they are problems that reduce outputs and results. \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provide solutions for addressing them. Learn in this Problem-solving workshop how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems using agile thinking and practices. \nKey learnings\n\nBecome able to create a blameless culture where signals are spotted more easily and problems are brought up sooner\nDevelop your skills for analyzing problems to get a deep understanding\nExplore ways to take action and follow up to remove problems or mitigate the impact\nLearn how to collaboratively deal with impediments in your team and organization\nExplore ways to prevent problems from happening again in the future\n\nIntended audience\nAgile Team\, Tech lead\, Scrum master\, Product Owner\, Project/Line Manager\, Agile and Lean Coach. \nDevOpsCon Berlin\nThe Conference for Continuous Delivery\, Microservices\, Containers\, Cloud & Lean Business – Berlin or Online. \nDevOps is fundamentally changing the IT world and sets the path for successful business transformation. Join DevOpsCon to learn about the latest tools\, technologies\, and methodologies for building and maintaining secure\, scalable\, and resilient software systems. \nHow do cloud platforms\, microservices\, and Kubernetes play together with comprehensive automation and continuous delivery? How can you handle increasing complexity in your organization and empower high-performance teams with the right tools and agile methodologies? DevOpsCon provides plenty of answers. \nAt DevOpsCon\, you will meet internationally recognized thought leaders of the DevOps movement and benefit from their expertise. Attend inspiring sessions and in-depth workshops to learn what you need to push your DevOps skills to the next level. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-workshop-problem-solving-mindset-practices/
LOCATION:Mercure Hotel MOA Berlin\, Stephanstraße 41\, Berlin\, 10559\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Germany,online,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="S&S Media":MAILTO:info@sandsmedia.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210519
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210215T112714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210511T104940Z
UID:45269-1621296000-1621382399@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices – Live Online
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can practice your problem-solving skills and learn how to deal with agile impediments. Join me on May 18\, 2021\, for the live online workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until May 9: €350. \n \nProblem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\nTeams will face problems in their daily work. Agile calls these problems impediments. Impediments can be something in the way of working\, be it processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They slow down teams or block the delivery of products or services. \nTeams need to be able to deal with impediments as they have an impact on the flow of work\, they are problems that reduce outputs and results. \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. In the workshop Problems Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\, you will learn how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems effectively and faster using agile thinking and practices. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nRecognizing signals of problems\, and creating safety in teams for people to bring up problems\nAnalyzing problems picking one technique: causal analysis\, blameless post-mortems\, retrospectives\, swarming\, or blocker analysis\nManaging impediments using techniques from Lean & Kanban; decide how to solve them and who should be involved\nUsing coaching and games to improve collaboration and develop problem-solving skills\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore how to handle impediments effectively and faster and practice our problem-solving skills. \nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome able to create a blameless culture where signals are spotted more easily and problems are brought up sooner\nDevelop your skills for analyzing problems to get a deep understanding\nExplore ways to take action and follow up to remove problems or mitigate the impact\nLearn how to collaboratively deal with impediments in your team and organization\nExplore ways to prevent problems from happening again in the future\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop on May 18\,  9 am – 1 pm CEST. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in the exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAttendees of this workshop will get a free ebook copy of Problem? What problem? – Dealing Effectively with Impediments using Agile Thinking with Problem-solving Practices and a downloadable copy of the Impediment Board Game (value €30). \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-problem-solving-agile-thinking-practices-may/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210513
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210409T182431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T082909Z
UID:44969-1620691200-1620863999@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Improving Your Quality and Testing Skills with Gamification @ Online Testing Conference
DESCRIPTION:For the first time\, I’m doing a session at the Online Testing Conference. I’ll be playing games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards to help people explore how things are going and to improve their way of working. \nImproving Your Quality and Testing Skills with Gamification\nSo many challenges\, so little time. As testers we need to sharpen the saw\, but how? Gamification can be a way to look at how you’re doing and find out where to improve. It’s a great way to have everyone involved and get the best out of people. \nIn this presentation\, Ben Linders will play games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards to show how you can explore your current quality and testing practice and decide in your team on what to improve or experiment with. \nPlayers can use the coaching cards to discuss quality and testing values\, principles\, and practices. In teams\, people can use the cards to share their experiences and learnings. \nDifferent game formats can be used to share experiences on testing and quality principles and practices and explore how they can be applied effectively. \nTakeaways \n\nShow how to use gamification to self-assess your current way of working.\nPlay games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards.\nExplore how to facilitate games to enhance quality and testing in agile teams.\n\nOnline Testing Conference\n\n\nOnlineTestConf was the first 100% online conference to provide all the advantages of attending professional QA related conferences: personal learning\, networking etc. without the shortcomings of scheduling\, expenses and travel. The conference has been running for the past 5 years on a semi-annual basis\, long before COVID-19 forced all live events online. \nOur next event will be our 10th OnlineTestConf! Conference attendees are from all parts of the world\, we host well known speakers as well as young presenters\, and discuss everything that relates to Testing and QA. Attendance is and will remain free of charge and we invite anyone who sees themselves involved in testing and the testing community to join.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/improving-quality-testing-skills-gamification-online-testing-conference/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210506T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210506T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210408T100220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T074337Z
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SUMMARY:How Agile Are You? Let’s Play the Agile Self-assessment Game @ Agile Humans Lean Coffee!
DESCRIPTION:I’ve been invited to the Agile Humans Lean Coffee meetup to facilitate a session where we play the Agile Self-assessment Game online. Join me on May 6: Book your seat at Agile Humans Lean Coffee. \nHow Agile Are You?\nLet’s get together and play the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nDuring this meetup\, Ben Linders will show how gamification enables you to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits your collective needs. We’ll be playing with the Agile Self-assessment Cards to find out how this works. There’s also time for questions on agile adoption\, transformations\, and self-assessments. \nIt is a serious cooperative card game\, an agile ”compass & map”. \nJoin us and find out: \n– Where you are on your agile journey and get inspired with ideas and suggestions on where to go next. \n– What you can do to increase your agility to deliver more value to your customers and stakeholders. \nYou can play with the self-assessment cards in agile retrospectives\, or use the cards to set up a team or explore how things are going in your team. Games can be played with cards in co-located and distributed teams; there are many different playing formats available and you can design your own online game format using digital card images. \nAgile Humans Lean Coffee\nThis is a group for anyone interested in Agile organizational culture and agile practices. \nAgile Humans Lean Coffee is committed to improving the quality and quantity of the first Agile manifesto value: Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools. \nWe help each other improve our work by teaching each other what we’ve learned through practice. \nInitially\, our meetup group used to gather the local agile community in Serbia\, but now we have become international – our meetups are online and the communication is in English. We have monthly practitioner-driven talks\, every first Thursday at 6.30 pm.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/how-agile-are-you-play-agile-self-assessment-game-agile-humans-meetup/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Meetup,online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210508
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210314T104008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210412T054344Z
UID:44977-1620259200-1620431999@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Develop Better Products with Agile - Live Online
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to develop better products using agile practices to understand your customers\, develop iteratively\, deliver faster with better quality\, and get valuable product feedback on May 6-7\, 2021! \nA two-day workshop for €750. Early bird until April 30: €600. \nThis workshop is part of the May 2021 Agile Training Week. Contact me via email to buy a combi-ticket for 2 or 3 workshops with a 25% or 40% discount! \nDevelop Better Products with Agile\nMany teams are adopting an agile way of working\, for instance with Scrum. Their expectation is that agile will help them to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs\, be more flexible\, and deliver faster. Unfortunately\, it doesn’t always work that way. Working in teams and collaborating with your customers to get feedback is hard. It’s not about doing Scrum\, it’s about effectively using agile practices to deliver value faster. \nIn the workshop Develop Better Products with Agile you will practice agile and learn how to apply it effectively: \n\nPractice understanding and prioritizing customer’s needs.\nWork in small teams to develop products iteratively.\nLearn to gather valuable feedback with product reviews and demos.\nSee how to improve your way of working with agile retrospectives.\nFind out how to effectively apply agile practices with an agile mindset.\n\nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you deliver the right products faster. \nIf your team(s) are \n\nfinding it difficult to understand your customer’s needs to decide on what to deliver when\nnot delivering working software or not able to finish user stories within a reasonable time\nnot getting feedback from customers and unsure if you are delivering value to your customers\nhaving difficulties communicating and working together as a self-organized team\ndoing agile/Scrum/Kanban rituals but feeling that they are not always helpful\nhaving difficulty to reflect and learn and get good actions out of your retrospective\n\nthen this is the workshop for you! \nLearning by Doing\nThe practices that you will be using in the workshop Develop Better Products with Agile will help you to develop the right products for your business and customers\, reduce your delivery time\, increase the quality of your software products\, and become a collaborative high-performing team. \nYou will practice: \n\nCommunicating with customers to build a backlog and slice it into small product pieces to deliver\nPrioritize delivery using criteria like value\, risk\, learning\, debt\, dependencies\, etc\nCollaborating remotely to create products\nDoing demo and feedback sessions to find out what customers think of your product\nFacilitating retrospectives to learn and improve product development skills\n\nAudience\nThe workshop Develop Better Products with Agile is intended for: \n\n(Senior) Developers\, Architects\, UI/UX designers\, and Testers\nProduct Owners/managers\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProject/Line Managers\n(Business) Stakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in increasing their performance\n\nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome better at understanding what your customers really need\nSkills for prioritizing product development to deliver more value faster\nAbility to do product reviews/demos to get valuable feedback\nWays to reflect and learn to increase the performance of your teams\n\nPractical information\nTwo-day\, four-hour per day interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in the exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-develop-better-products-agile-live-online-may-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Making Agile Work,online,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210504
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210505
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210201T135141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210412T173955Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives - Live Online
DESCRIPTION:Learn how you can run remote retrospectives\, practice online exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in distributed retrospectives in the workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives on May 4\, 2021. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until April 30: €350. \n \nThis workshop is part of the May 2021 Agile Training Week. Contact me via email to buy a combi-ticket for 2 or 3 workshops with a 25% or 40% discount! \n \nFacilitating Remote Retrospectives\nAgile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting at the end of each iteration to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions in the next iteration. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\nRecognizing and dealing with retrospective smells or anti-patterns is hard in online meetings (but it can be done!)\nIt’s more difficult to foster productive and collaborative behavior and keep everyone involved during the meeting\nNot physically being together calls for different retrospective exercises or innovative ways to do exercises online\nPsychological safety is a key issue in any retrospective\, it’s more challenging when people collaborate remotely\n\nIn the workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives\, we will practice doing remote retrospectives while fostering psychological safety using exercises that keep people involved. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective Facilitators\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile Teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nAnybody who is involved in agile retrospectives\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to get more value from doing remote agile retrospectives. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore unproductive behavior in retrospectives and learn to recognize retrospective smells or anti-patterns\nDevelop your facilitation skills for running remote retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in online meetings and what can be done to keep people involved\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAll attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Bingo\, and a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Smells Cards. (value €30). \n \nTestimonials\nBelow testimonials come from the many workshops on agile retrospectives that I have done over the years. \n“The workshop presented in a clear way why retrospectives are the driving force to an organization which wants to improve. Using some playful exercises I learned several easy ways to extract the current status of the team and how to decide which should be the next steps to address potential problems and risks” \nNikolaos Raptis – Scrum Master – Software Developer at Scytl Secure Electronic Voting \n“I got a better understanding of retrospectives and many ideas on how to use them in my work. I can suggest this workshop to anyone that wants to go agile.  Also thanks for the reading material\, I found it very helpful.” \nBill Souliotis – Manager Software Research & Development Graphics User Interface at BETA CAE Systems \n“After working together for many years\, our team (myself included) grew out of the need for formal retrospectives. This workshop helped to get some fresh ideas that can refuel our retros and stressed some key points about the necessity and importance of facilitation in these events.” \nYorgos Saslis – Solution Design Executive at CytechMobile.com \n“I’d like to thank you again for your excellent workshop. It was fun and I already started using some of the ideas with my team. The change is definitely notable.” \nLiran Ben-Porat\, qSpark LTD \n“Thanks once again for a wonderful workshop! We have a lot of useful outputs which we are going to implement. And thanks for the free copy of your book about the retrospectives\, now we are able to go through the topics once again and do the exercises in our company.” \nJakub Grós\, Project Engineer at Honeywell \n“I found the workshop very useful. We’ve already started to experiment with some action items we gave ourselves in the workshop\, doing changes in our overall retrospective approach. We are also trying out cross facilitation\, having our retrospectives facilitated by a Scrum master of another team.” \nSimona Humpolová\, Scrum master at EmbedIT \nI have taken some of my Scrum masters to Ben’s retrospective training. I like the training very much\, and also his website which contains many retro techniques. I still use this as a reference when I coach people. \nZoltán Ludányi\, Agile Software Development Consultant \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/facilitating-remote-retrospectives-may-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210504
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210216T075224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210412T213916Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Self-assessing your Agility – Live Online
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you learn how to assess your agility using gamification and take the next steps on your agile journey: Join me on May 3 for this live online workshop. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until April 30: €350. \nThis workshop is part of the May 2021 Agile Training Week. Contact me via email to buy a combi-ticket for 2 or 3 workshops with a 25% or 40% discount! \n \n \nSelf-assessing your Agility\nIn the workshop Self-assessing your Agility\, you will practice games and exercises to explore how agile your teams are. \nWe’ll be playing The Agile Self-Assessment Game\, a serious game used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing this game enables professionals to reflect on collaboration and team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. With this game\, they can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nNext\, you’ll learn how to create an “agile map” that inspires you with ideas for increasing your agility and provides suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. \nIn this workshop\, you will experience different playing formats of The Agile Self-assessment Game. You’ll hear about the importance of pre-selecting cards to create focused card decks and find out about different exercises that can be used to self-assess and play your agile journey. \nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you to increase your agility. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to explore your way of working and take the next steps on your agile journey. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore what agile and agility means and the benefits that they can bring\nUnderstand the power of engagement and invitation-based agile adoption approaches\nExperience how you can self-assess the agility of teams and organizations\nPlay the Agile Self-assessment Game using different playing formats and card decks\nLearn ways for planning and traveling your own agile journey\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can play the games and get fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nThe workshop Assessing your Agility is based on the Agile Self-assessment Game. All attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the Agile Self-Assessment Game and the ebook ‘The Agile Self-assessment Game’ (value €30). \n \nTestimonials\nThis is what people say who played the Agile Self-assessment Game: \nThe cards help to get the team out of the daily work and daily mindset. \nThis is a wonderful way to get your team talking about how they are “being” agile! \nThe game really did add value and I got some real insight into the thoughts of people. \nBen’s Agile Assessment game is easy to adopt and easy for teams to pick up. \nWe realized our agile maturity level\, recognized actionable improvements and had great fun and insights! \nPlaying the game builds clarity and alignment on what Agile means to everyone on the team and helps team members meaningfully evaluate their agility. \nIt’s a great tool to use for a retrospective. \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-assessing-agility-live-online-may/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,online,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210401T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210401T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210317T063405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210317T063405Z
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SUMMARY:The Agile Self-assessment Game: How Agile Are You? Agile 101 for Agile New England
DESCRIPTION:On April 1 (no joke) I’m doing an Agile 101 for Agile New England where we will be playing the Agile Self-assessment Game online. You have to be a member of Agile New England to join the session. \n \nThe Agile Self-assessment Game: How Agile Are You? by Ben Linders\nThe Agile Self-assessment Game is an Agile ” compass & map” to find out where you are and inspire you with ideas and suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. It’s a cooperative card game to discover how agile you are and what you can do to increase your agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nIn this session\, Ben Linders explores how a game can enable people to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits their collective needs. And we’ll be playing with the Agile self-assessment cards. \nBen Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement. As an adviser\, trainer\, and coach\, he helps organizations with effectively deploying software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement\, collaboration and communication\, and professional development\, to deliver business value to customers. Ben is an active member of networks on Agile\, Lean\, and Quality\, and a well-known speaker and author. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools\, for example\, the Agile Self-assessment Game.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-self-assessment-game-agile-101-agile-new-england/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Meetup,US
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210401T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210401T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210216T075224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220909T114858Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Self-assessing your Agility – Live Online
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you learn how to assess your agility using gamification and take the next steps on your agile journey: Join me on April 1 for this live online workshop. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until March 19: €350. \nThis workshop is part of the March 2021 Agile Training Week. \n \nSelf-assessing your Agility\nIn the workshop Self-assessing your Agility\, you will practice games and exercises to explore how agile your teams are. \nWe’ll be playing The Agile Self-Assessment Game\, a serious game used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing this game enables professionals to reflect on collaboration and team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. With this game\, they can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nNext\, you’ll learn how to create an “agile map” that inspires you with ideas for increasing your agility and provides suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. \nIn this workshop\, you will experience different playing formats of The Agile Self-assessment Game. You’ll hear about the importance of pre-selecting cards to create focused card decks and find out about different exercises that can be used to self-assess and play your agile journey. \nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you to increase your agility. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to explore your way of working and take the next steps on your agile journey. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore what agile and agility means and the benefits that they can bring\nUnderstand the power of engagement and invitation-based agile adoption approaches\nExperience how you can self-assess the agility of teams and organizations\nPlay the Agile Self-assessment Game using different playing formats and card decks\nLearn ways for planning and traveling your own agile journey\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can play the games and get fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nThe workshop Assessing your Agility is based on the Agile Self-assessment Game. All attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the Agile Self-Assessment Game and the ebook ‘The Agile Self-assessment Game’ (value €30). \nTestimonials\nThis is what people say who played the Agile Self-assessment Game: \nThe cards help to get the team out of the daily work and daily mindset. \nThis is a wonderful way to get your team talking about how they are “being” agile! \nThe game really did add value and I got some real insight into the thoughts of people. \nBen’s Agile Assessment game is easy to adopt and easy for teams to pick up. \nWe realized our agile maturity level\, recognized actionable improvements and had great fun and insights! \nPlaying the game builds clarity and alignment on what Agile means to everyone on the team and helps team members meaningfully evaluate their agility. \nIt’s a great tool to use for a retrospective. \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-assessing-agility-live-online-march-20212-2/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210331T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210331T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210215T112714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210327T092553Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices – Live Online
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can practice your problem-solving skills and learn how to deal with agile impediments. Join me on March 31\, 2021\, for the live online workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices. \nA one-day workshop for €450. Early bird until March 19: €350. \nThis workshop is part of the March 2021 Agile Training Week. \nProblem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\nTeams will face problems in their daily work. Agile calls these problems impediments. Impediments can be something in the way of working\, be it processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They slow down teams or block the delivery of products or services. \nTeams need to be able to deal with impediments as they have an impact on the flow of work\, they are problems that reduce outputs and results. \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. In the workshop Problems Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\, you will learn how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems effectively and faster using agile thinking and practices. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nRecognizing signals of problems\, and creating safety in teams for people to bring up problems\nAnalyzing problems picking one technique: causal analysis\, blameless post-mortems\, retrospectives\, swarming\, or blocker analysis\nManaging impediments using techniques from Lean & Kanban; decide how to solve them and who should be involved\nUsing coaching and games to improve collaboration and develop problem-solving skills\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore how to handle impediments effectively and faster and practice our problem-solving skills. \nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome able to create a blameless culture where signals are spotted more easily and problems are brought up sooner\nDevelop your skills for analyzing problems to get a deep understanding\nExplore ways to take action and follow up to remove problems or mitigate the impact\nLearn how to collaboratively deal with impediments in your team and organization\nExplore ways to prevent problems from happening again in the future\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop on March 31\,  2 pm – 6 pm CEST. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in the exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAttendees of this workshop will get a free ebook copy of Problem? What problem? – Dealing Effectively with Impediments using Agile Thinking with Problem-solving Practices and a downloadable copy of the Impediment Board Game (value €30). \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-problem-solving-agile-thinking-practices-march-31-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Problem Solving,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210329
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210331
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210314T104008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210327T092413Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Develop Better Products with Agile - Live Online
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to develop better products using agile practices to understand your customers\, develop iteratively\, deliver faster with better quality\, and get valuable product feedback on March 29-30\, 2021! \nA two-day workshop for €750. Early bird until March 19: €600. \nThis workshop is part of the March 2021 Agile Training Week. \nDevelop Better Products with Agile\nMany teams are adopting an agile way of working\, for instance with Scrum. Their expectation is that agile will help them to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs\, be more flexible\, and deliver faster. Unfortunately\, it doesn’t always work that way. Working in teams and collaborating with your customers to get feedback is hard. It’s not about doing Scrum\, it’s about effectively using agile practices to deliver value faster. \nIn the workshop Develop Better Products with Agile you will practice agile and learn how to apply it effectively: \n\nPractice understanding and prioritizing customer’s needs.\nWork in small teams to develop products iteratively.\nLearn to gather valuable feedback with product reviews and demos.\nSee how to improve your way of working with agile retrospectives.\nFind out how to effectively apply agile practices with an agile mindset.\n\nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you deliver the right products faster. \nIf your team(s) are \n\nfinding it difficult to understand your customer’s needs to decide on what to deliver when\nnot delivering working software or not able to finish user stories within a reasonable time\nnot getting feedback from customers and unsure if you are delivering value to your customers\nhaving difficulties communicating and working together as a self-organized team\ndoing agile/Scrum/Kanban rituals but feeling that they are not always helpful\nhaving difficulty to reflect and learn and get good actions out of your retrospective\n\nthen this is the workshop for you! \nLearning by Doing\nThe practices that you will be using in the workshop Develop Better Products with Agile will help you to develop the right products for your business and customers\, reduce your delivery time\, increase the quality of your software products\, and become a collaborative high-performing team. \nYou will practice: \n\nCommunicating with customers to build a backlog and slice it into small product pieces to deliver\nPrioritize delivery using criteria like value\, risk\, learning\, debt\, dependencies\, etc\nCollaborating remotely to create products\nDoing demo and feedback sessions to find out what customers think of your product\nFacilitating retrospectives to learn and improve product development skills\n\nAudience\nThe workshop Develop Better Products with Agile is intended for: \n\n(Senior) Developers\, Architects\, UI/UX designers\, and Testers\nProduct Owners/managers\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProject/Line Managers\n(Business) Stakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in increasing their performance\n\nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome better at understanding what your customers really need\nSkills for prioritizing product development to deliver more value faster\nAbility to do product reviews/demos to get valuable feedback\nWays to reflect and learn to increase the performance of your teams\n\nPractical information\nTwo-day\, four-hour per day interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in the exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-develop-better-products-agile-live-online/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Making Agile Work,Netherlands,Nigeria,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210325T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20210325T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T212130
CREATED:20210201T135141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210316T074357Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives - Live Online
DESCRIPTION:Learn how you can run remote retrospectives\, practice online exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in distributed retrospectives in the workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives on March 25\, 2021. \nSpecial price for World Retrospective Day (#WorldRetroDay ): €300 (Normal price is €450). \nA one-day workshop\, live online 2 pm-6 pm CET. \n \nFacilitating Remote Retrospectives\nAgile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting at the end of each iteration to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions in the next iteration. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\nRecognizing and dealing with retrospective smells or anti-patterns is hard in online meetings (but it can be done!)\nIt’s more difficult to foster productive and collaborative behavior and keep everyone involved during the meeting\nNot physically being together calls for different retrospective exercises or innovative ways to do exercises online\nPsychological safety is a key issue in any retrospective\, it’s more challenging when people collaborate remotely\n\nIn the workshop Facilitating Remote Retrospectives\, we will practice doing remote retrospectives while fostering psychological safety using exercises that keep people involved. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective Facilitators\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile Teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nAnybody who is involved in agile retrospectives\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to get more value from doing remote agile retrospectives. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore unproductive behavior in retrospectives and learn to recognize retrospective smells or anti-patterns\nDevelop your facilitation skills for running remote retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in online meetings and what can be done to keep people involved\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAll attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Bingo\, and a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Smells Cards. (value €30). \nTestimonials\nBelow testimonials come from the many workshops on agile retrospectives that I have done over the years. \n“The workshop presented in a clear way why retrospectives are the driving force to an organization which wants to improve. Using some playful exercises I learned several easy ways to extract the current status of the team and how to decide which should be the next steps to address potential problems and risks” \nNikolaos Raptis – Scrum Master – Software Developer at Scytl Secure Electronic Voting \n“I got a better understanding of retrospectives and many ideas on how to use them in my work. I can suggest this workshop to anyone that wants to go agile.  Also thanks for the reading material\, I found it very helpful.” \nBill Souliotis – Manager Software Research & Development Graphics User Interface at BETA CAE Systems \n“After working together for many years\, our team (myself included) grew out of the need for formal retrospectives. This workshop helped to get some fresh ideas that can refuel our retros and stressed some key points about the necessity and importance of facilitation in these events.” \nYorgos Saslis – Solution Design Executive at CytechMobile.com \n“I’d like to thank you again for your excellent workshop. It was fun and I already started using some of the ideas with my team. The change is definitely notable.” \nLiran Ben-Porat\, qSpark LTD \n“Thanks once again for a wonderful workshop! We have a lot of useful outputs which we are going to implement. And thanks for the free copy of your book about the retrospectives\, now we are able to go through the topics once again and do the exercises in our company.” \nJakub Grós\, Project Engineer at Honeywell \n“I found the workshop very useful. We’ve already started to experiment with some action items we gave ourselves in the workshop\, doing changes in our overall retrospective approach. We are also trying out cross facilitation\, having our retrospectives facilitated by a Scrum master of another team.” \nSimona Humpolová\, Scrum master at EmbedIT \nI have taken some of my Scrum masters to Ben’s retrospective training. I like the training very much\, and also his website which contains many retro techniques. I still use this as a reference when I coach people. \nZoltán Ludányi\, Agile Software Development Consultant \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/facilitating-remote-retrospectives-mar-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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