BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ben Linders - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Ben Linders X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.benlinders.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Ben Linders REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200831 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200901 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20200107T081116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200502T074604Z UID:38981-1598832000-1598918399@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Agile Workshop Improving Organizational Agility at DevOpsCon London - New date DESCRIPTION:Learn to apply agile throughout your organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster with better quality\, and improve organizational agility at DevOpsCon London\, April 21\, 2020. \nImproving Organizational Agility\nIn the workshop Improving Organizational Agility\, you experience how your organization can become more agile: \n\nPractice creating an environment that enables teams and empower them to apply agile practices.\nLearn to establish an agile collaborative mindset throughout the organization.\nCreate a culture that supports collaboration and which motivates people to work together to create high-quality products and services.\n\nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you become more agile and lean. The practices in this workshop will help you to apply agile (Scrum\, Kanban\, DevOps) methods and frameworks effectively to increase organizational agility. \nWho should attend this workshop\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile and DevOps Coaches\nAgile Consultants and Change Managers\nAnybody who is supporting teams in DevOps implementations or agile transformations\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\n\nDevOpsCon London\nDevOps is fundamentally changing the IT world and sets the path for successful business transformation. Join DevOpsCon to learn about the latest tools\, technologies\, and methodologies for building and maintaining secure\, scalable\, and resilient software systems. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-workshop-improving-organizational-agility-at-devopscon-london/ LOCATION:Park Plaza Victoria\, 239 Vauxhall Bridge Road\, London\, SW1V 1EQ\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Improve Organizational Agility,UK,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/workshop-improving-organizational-agility-London-2020-Ben-Linders-banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="S&S Media":MAILTO:info@sandsmedia.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200708T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200709T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20200610T075358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200701T115453Z UID:42299-1594198800-1594299600@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Improving Organizational Agility - Virtual course DESCRIPTION:I’m giving my popular workshop Improving Organizational Agility as an online virtual course on July 8 and 9\, in collaboration with Agile Actors #learning. \n \nMany organizations are going through agile transformations. They are implementing Scrum or Kanban and using large-scale agile frameworks like Lean\, SAFe\, LeSS or DAD\, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. Unfortunately\, those transformations do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. \nImproving Organizational Agility\nThis 8-hour workshop aims in helping organizations: \n\nhaving difficulties to adjust themselves to shorten delivery times\nhaving products with quality issues and are losing customers\ndoing an agile/Scrum/Kanban transformation but not seeing the expected benefits\nunable to remove barriers that are blocking cross-organizational collaboration\ntrying to adopt agile but finding it hard to change the culture and mindset\nlooking for ways to apply agile practices more effectively and needs help with that\nnot able to improve in small but meaningful steps\non an agile journey but unsure where to go next or what would be the best thing to do\n\nWho should attend\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAgile Consultants and Change Managers\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help participants apply agile methods and frameworks effectively to increase organizational agility \nWhat will you learn\nParticipants of this 8-hour workshop will learn how to apply agile throughout their organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster with better quality\, and improve organizational agility\, and more specifically: \n\nPractice how to create an environment that enables teams and empower them to apply agile practices.\nLearn ways to establish an agile mindset throughout the organization.\nCreate a culture that supports collaboration and which motivates people to work together to create high-quality products and services.\n\nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you become more agile and lean. \nMoreover\, participants of this workshop are expected to: \n\nPractice how to assess their agility with Agile Self-assessments to find out how well they are doing\nLearn effective ways to travel their agile journey and find out what they need to do this\nGet ideas for improving collaboration and communication between teams and stakeholders and break down barriers\nLearn tips and tricks to expand and scale an agile way of working throughout the organization\nGet advice on selecting and applying agile and lean practices effectively\n\nAbout the Instructor\nBen Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\, What Drives Quality\, The Agile Self-assessment Game\, Problem? What Problem?\, and Continuous Improvement. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools\, for example\, the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nBen is a well-known speaker and author; he’s much respected for sharing his experiences and helping others share theirs. His books and games have been translated into more than 12 languages and are used by professionals in teams and organizations all around the world. \nAs an adviser\, trainer\, and coach\, he helps organizations with effectively deploying software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement\, collaboration and communication\, and professional development\, to deliver business value to customers. \nAgile Actors #learning\nAgile Actors #learning is the Learning Ecosystem for the ambitious and talented tech professional. From setting meaningful personal goals to getting personal coaching\, it helps you find your next career dot and deliver value to the real world. \nWe are helping Tech Professionals to combine theory with best practices as well as real-world experiences in order to grow and excel. \nOur courses\, developed by experienced Software Engineers\, Testers\, Agile Coaches focus on hands-on examples and projects to get you up to speed with any new technology\, tool or methodology. \nSchedule\nNext virtual session has been scheduled for 8 & 9 July 2020 10:00am – 2:00pm (EEST) URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/improving-organizational-agility-virtual-course/ LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Improve Organizational Agility,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/agile_post_800x400_nl-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200527T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200527T143000 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20200519T053824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200519T053824Z UID:42022-1590586200-1590589800@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Back to the Future - A Futurespective on Software Development in 2040 DESCRIPTION:I’m doing an online meetup with the Aginext community where we’ll do a futurespective on software development in 2040. Seats are limited\, sign up for the Aginext Futurespective. \nBack to the Future – A Futurespective on Software Development in 2040\nA futurespective is an agile retrospective where you start from the goal to find ways how to get there. Teams place themselves in the future by imagining that their goal has been reached. \nI just came back from 2040 to find out that we are still making software. But it’s not as we know it\, Jim! Software development is done completely different compared to the agile wave that we had at the start of the century. How different? Well\, let’s futuresplore it together. \nIn this session\, we will do a futurespective on how software development will be done in the future when we have finally mastered this profession. After sketching the future we’ll discuss what got us there\, and we think about the steps that we can take in 2020 to reach the castle in the sky. \nAginext Community\nAginext is first and foremost a community with an agile mindset. We host agile events online and off\, and our community is a driving force behind Agile in London. This online community looks to bridge the gap between agile events\, and to share agile advice\, experiments\, and experiences. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/back-to-the-future-a-futurespective-on-software-development-in-2040/ LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands CATEGORIES:Meetup ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/aginext-2020-ben-linders-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200527 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200529 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20200219T140128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200502T074110Z UID:40919-1590537600-1590710399@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Codemotion Amsterdam 2020 -> will move to spring 2021 DESCRIPTION:I’m speaking at Codemotion Amsterdam 2020 about Teams\, what’s in it for me? Codemotion is one of the most important tech conferences in Europe\, with a network of more than 30k developers. \nThe conference will move to spring 2021: \nUnfortunately\, given the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 that we are all experiencing\, we have no options but postponing Codemotion Amsterdam\, planned for the upcoming May\, 27-28\, to Spring 2021. \n \nTeams\, what’s in it for me?\nAgile talks about self-organized teams\, where developers and testers work together to deliver software. What can you do to make teams succeed? This talk explores why people like to work in teams\, what managers can do to enable a team structure and culture\, and how to (not) manage agile teams. \n\nWhat is an agile team (and what not)\nWhy would you as a developer want to work in a team\, what’s in it for me\nWhich benefits do teams have for organizations\, stakeholders\, customers\, etc\nHow to manage teams\, the do’s and don’ts\nHow developers\, managers\, and business people\, can effectively communicate\n\nAbout Codemotion\nCodemotion is a multitrack tech conference for software developers in EMEA\, with an international network of over 400.000 developers and more than 4.000 speakers. \nCodemotion Amsterdam has drawn about 1200 attendees in 2019\, and we are expecting even more for 2020. \nMost of them are experienced IT professionals and our audience generally breaks down into:\n30% CTO and tech leads\n45% Senior Developers\n15% Junior Developers\n10% Students \nSince our conferences attract developers\, IT professionals with different backgrounds and levels of experience\, we provide our attendees with technical excellence\, cutting-edge technologies as well as hands-on activities\, best practices & case studies to allow them to grow into even better developers. \nOur attendees are driven by a great passion for coding\, a desire to share their knowledge and to make new personal and business connections to lead the innovation around them: in a nutshell\, they are literally coding the future of us all\, in the smartest\, coolest\, best environment\, Codemotion. \nBe part of it all: join us in Amsterdam! URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/codemotion-amsterdam-2020/ LOCATION:De Kromhouthal\, Gedempt Hamerkanaal 231\, Amsterdam\, 1021 KP\, Netherlands CATEGORIES:Conference,Netherlands ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/codemotion-Amsterdam-2020-banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Codemotion srl":MAILTO:info@codemotion.it END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200326 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200327 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20200219T161254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220110T203740Z UID:40933-1585180800-1585267199@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:World Retrospective Day 2020 DESCRIPTION:World Retrospective Day – March 26 – is a volunteer-based\, globally coordinated effort to share in the power of retrospectives. Registration for events is up at worldretrospectiveday.com/. \nTo celebrate World Retrospective Day you can download agile retrospectives book\, games\, and coaching tools with a discount: \nUse coupon “worldretroday” at benlinders.com/shop \nWorld Retrospectives Day\nWorld Retrospective Day is a community effort to introduce retrospectives as a tool for continuous improvement. \nIt aims to spread the word about the benefits of retrospectives! \nThis is the third year that we’re celebrating World Retrospective Day. \nDiscount for Better Retrospectives\nAs every year I’m giving a discount on the Agile Retrospectives Book\, Games\, & Coaching Tools in my webshop. 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VAT)\nView products \n \n\n\n\nUse coupon “worldretroday” in my webshop to get 20% off any Agile Coaching Tool – valid until April 13!\n  URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/world-retrospective-day-2020/ LOCATION:TBD\, TBD\, TBD CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Meetup,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Retrospectives Agility,Retrospectives Teams,Russian federation,Serbia,Singapore,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/world-retrospective-day-2020-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200319 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200321 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20191118T083141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200109T161455Z UID:37709-1584576000-1584748799@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Aginext.io 2020 DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to Aginext.io to explore how the future of agile can look. Join me in my futurespective on software development in 2040. \nBack to the Future – A Futurespective on Software Development in 2040\nI just came back from 2040 to find out that we are still making software. But it’s not as we know it\, Jim! Software development is done completely different compared to the agile wave that we had at the start of the century. How different? Well\, let’s futuresplore it together \nIn this session\, we will do a futurespective on how software development will be done in the future when we have finally mastered this profession. After sketching the future we’ll discuss what got us there\, and we think about the steps that we can take in 2020 to reach the castle in the sky. \nWhy would you join this session? One reason to participate would be to think about how to innovate the way software is developed and hear what other people think. Another reason would be to participate in a futurespective exercise\, which is a technique used in agile retrospectives. Finally\, you can practice out-of-the-box thinking in this session\, being freed by anything roadblocks your organization has as in the future they won’t be there anymore. \nAginext.io\nAginext is the Post-Agile Conference. It’s two days in London dedicated to advanced agile and what comes next. \nSo you’ve been doing agile for a while. Your systems and your people are increasingly complex. What’s next? A lot of agile teams are looking to level up their business agility. \nAgile at scale. Culture at scale. Digital leadership. The Post-Agile World. DevOps and cross-organisational digital transformation. Aginext looks to talk about and experiment with the unthinkable and undoable that’s already happening in some orgs. \nUse the code “BL_15″ to get 15% off! \nI have been part of the program committee of Aginext 2020\, where I supported the organizers in setting up the conference program and connecting with speakers. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/aginext-io-2020/ LOCATION:DoubleTree Hilton Westminster\, 30 John Islip St\, London\, SW1P 4DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Conference,UK,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/aginext-2020-ben-linders-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200302 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200305 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20200109T164742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T204723Z UID:39483-1583107200-1583366399@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:QCon London 2020 DESCRIPTION:I’m attending QCon London as an InfoQ editor. It’s a conference for senior software engineers and architects\, with patterns\, practices\, and use cases\, from the world’s most innovative software companies. \nThe 2020 conference theme is: \nBleeding-edge for the Enterprise. \nBring trends from innovator and early adopter companies home to your team \n\nQCon prefers: \n\nEngineers over Evangelists\,\nPractitioners over Trainers/Coaches\,\nTeam Leads over Consultants \n\nQCon by InfoQ\nInfoQ has been organizing QCons across the globe for over 10 years now. For the same period of time we have been publishing news\, articles\, videos and in-depth/deep dive reports on hot topics in the industry. Our content is written only by real life practitioners and offers best practices from companies such as Uber\, Netflix and more. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/qcon-london-2020/ LOCATION:Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre\, Broad Sanctuary\, Westminster\, London\, England\, SW1P 3EE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Conference,UK ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/qcon-london-2020-covered-by-Ben-Linders-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200213 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200215 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20191219T110700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200125T194911Z UID:38750-1581552000-1581724799@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Stretch Conference 2020 DESCRIPTION:I’m doing a full-day workshop Assessing your Agility and talk about leading for self-organization at Stretch\, the leadership and management conference in Budapest from February 12-14. \nLeading for Self-organisation: Do’s and Don’ts of Agile Management\nAgile is something for teams\, right? True\, but teams don’t function in a vacuum. As a manager\, you can set the stage and support teams who want to increase their agility. This presentation explores three topics that managers can work on to make teams succeed and increase the company’s agility: Leadership\, Collaboration\, and Culture. \nWith agile\, teams are supposed to make their own decisions on what to do and how to do. Managers should be delegating decisions to the team and trusting them to do the right thing. But letting go of control can be a scary thing. \nIn this talk\, I will explore leadership approaches suitable for teams and managers that want to become agile. I’ll show how teams can use the approaches to become empowered\, and how managers use them to guide teams towards producing valuable results. \nOne of the biggest challenges that managers face when adopting agile is increasing collaboration\, both within the team and between teams. I’ll start by exploring why people would like to work in teams\, what’s in it for them. Understanding this can help you as a manager to support people to do a better job together. \nImpediments to collaboration should be solved by the team as much as possible; they should be capable to deal with blockers and get them out of the way. In this talk I’ll show how managers can help teams by listening to them\, giving them what they need\, and addressing organization-wide impediments by tearing down walls in organizations. \nTo make agile work\, people should feel psychologically safe to make decisions and try out things. It can be challenging to establish a culture that enables agile. \nLet’s explore what managers can do to create and nurture a culture that fosters experimentation\, and what they can do to enabling learning from failures and from things that go well. \nTo sum it up\, I’ll provide a list of things that managers should consider doing if they want their teams to be successful\, and things that may be harmful to teams that they could stop doing. \n \nStretch Conference\n\nAn international platform and community for leaders and managers to share stories\, hands-on solutions and explore new trends and ideas to lead\, fail\, learn and stretch: Stretch is a non-profit conference that brings 500 attendees from all around the world who want to build effective organizations since 2013. \n\n\nTopics: Dive deep into agile leadership\, coaching\, mental health\, continuous learning\, remote management\, high-performing teams\, organizational culture\, diversity and inclusion. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/stretch-conference-2020/ LOCATION:Uránia Film Theather\, Rákóczi út 21\, Budapest\, Hungary CATEGORIES:Conference,Hungary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/Stretch-conference-2020-Ben-Linders-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200213 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20200107T153441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T153441Z UID:39406-1581465600-1581551999@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Workshop Assessing your Agility at Stretch DESCRIPTION:I’m giving the full-day workshop Assessing your Agility at Stretch 2020 on February 12 in Budapest\, Hungary. Ticket sales has started: Workshop: Assessing Your Agility. \nAssessing your Agility\nThere isn’t a silver bullet or standard route to increase your agility\, you have to find your own way. Copying a model to become agile won’t help\, and imposing agile upon people isn’t an effective approach. What does work is empowering your teams to help them find out how agile they are and providing them with exercises and games to set course for their own agile journey. \nIn the workshop assessing your agility\, you will practice games and exercises to explore how agile your teams are. Next\, you’ll learn how to create an “agile map” that inspires you with ideas for increasing your agility and provides suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. \nWe’ll be playing The Agile Self-Assessment Game\, a serious game used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing the game enables professionals to reflect on collaboration and team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. With this game\, they can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nIn this workshop\, you will experience different playing formats of The Agile Self-assessment Game. You’ll hear about the importance of pre-selecting cards to create focused card decks and find out about different exercises that can be used to self-assess and play your agile journey. \nWhat will you learn: \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\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). \nAbout Stretch Conference\nAn international platform and community for leaders and managers to share stories\, hands-on solutions and explore new trends and ideas to lead\, fail\, learn and stretch: Stretch is a non-profit conference that brings 500 attendees from all around the world who want to build effective organizations since 2013. \nDive deep into agile leadership\, coaching\, mental health\, continuous learning\, remote management\, high-performing teams\, organizational culture\, diversity and inclusion. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-assessing-your-agility-at-stretch/ LOCATION:prezi Budapest\, Nagymező u. 54-56\, Budapest\, 1065\, Hungary CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Hungary,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/Stretch-conference-2020-workshop-assessing-your-agility-Ben-Linders-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200211T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200211T203000 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20200206T214912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200208T082241Z UID:40405-1581447600-1581453000@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Budapest Agile & StretchCon meetup with Ben Linders [Sold Out] DESCRIPTION:I’ve been invited to the Budapest meetup to facilitate one of my games: The Agile Self-assessment Game. The meetup is sold out\, but there are a few seats left for my workshop Assessing your Agility on February 12 in Budapest. \nJoin Ben Linders for an Agile Self-Assessment Game\nBecoming agile is a journey\, and it can be a difficult one. Playing the Agile Self-Assessment Game can help you to come up with ideas to smoothly and successfully travel your agile journey. \nAssuming that you know why you want to become agile (a first but crucial step)\, you start looking for ways of getting there. Questions like “what do you want to keep from your current way of working?” and “what would you like to change?” will come up at the start. The next questions that usually pop up are “how are we doing?” and “what can we do to improve and increase our agility?”. \nIn this meetup\, people will form teams to play different playing formats described in the successful book The Agile Self-Assessment Game. They will learn ways to discover how agile you are – and what you can do to increase your agility. After the meetup\, participants will be able to play the game with your own team. \nThe game and book can be downloaded for a nominal fee at benlinders.com/shop. Attendees will receive a discount code to download the Book & Cards package to play the game with their own team. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/budapest-agile-stretchcon-meetup-with-ben-linders-sold-out/ LOCATION:prezi Budapest\, Nagymező u. 54-56\, Budapest\, 1065\, Hungary CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Hungary,Meetup ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/Budapest-meetup-Ben-Linders-Agile-Self-assessment-Game.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200203 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200208 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20190925T110827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191221T132425Z UID:35259-1580688000-1581119999@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:OOP Conference 2020 DESCRIPTION:At the OOP Conference\, I’ll be talking about taking retrospectives to the next level: Organizational Agility. Join me in Munich\, February 3-7\, 2020. \nRetrospectives To The Next Level: Organizational Agility\nAgile Retrospectives can be used to deal with problems in teams\, at a project or product level\, or those related to the collaboration between the team and stakeholders. But you need a different approach compared to team level retrospectives to do organizational-wide improvement. \nThis session shows how to use agile retrospectives to reveal and solve systemic organizational problems and to increase the company’s agility It explores different approaches\, formats\, and techniques for agile retrospectives that are done beyond the development team. \nTarget Audience: Managers\, Teams\, Scrum Masters\, Agile Coaches\, Tech Leads\nPrerequisites: At least some experience with team/organizational improvement\nLevel: Practicing \nExtended Abstract\nNowadays many agile teams are doing retrospectives regularly. They are investing their time to reflect\, learn\, and take action to improve their way of working and deal with problems that they are facing in a structural way. \nOrganizations are seeing the benefits from this: teams that are becoming empowered\, being able to deliver more value to customers and stakeholders\, happy employees\, and fewer people leaving the organization. It’s time to take retrospectives to a higher level\, and use them to reveal and solve systemic organizational problems. Agile Retrospectives can be used to do that\, but you need a different approach. \nIn this session\, I will show how we can use retrospectives to improve the agility of organizations. \nNote: Some might call the above approach scaling retrospectives. If that goes towards imposing how teams do retrospectives with some kind of framework\, then I believe it doesn’t work. Increasing agility with retrospectives is about creating an environment where teams not only focus on their own improvement needs but also on the company as a whole\, and get support from management when improvements go over their team borders or outside their autonomy. \nOOP Conference\nThe OOP is the conference for software architecture.  In 2020 we offer you among other things: \n› More than 35 English sessions\n› 13 topics\n› Up to 9 parallel tracks\n› Many social events\n› Workshops\n› Graphic Recordings \nOnce again you will experience sessions at the highest level. \nTop-class Keynotes and international renowned speakers – that’s what OOP is famous for\, as it offers a mixture of deep content and a wide thematic spectrum! URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/oop-conference-2020/ LOCATION:International Congress Center Munich\, Am Messesee 6\, Munich\, 81829\, Germany CATEGORIES:Conference,Germany ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/OOP-conference-2020-Ben-Linders-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200102 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20190323T171144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191117T193747Z UID:29799-1577836800-1577923199@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Workshop Delivering Value with Agile in Serbia (on request) DESCRIPTION:Delivering Value with Agile Training is a two-day training where you will learn how to apply agile throughout the organization to improve organizational agility. Also\, you will learn how to apply agile practices to develop the right product\, deliver faster with better quality\, as well as how to become a happy high-performing team. On this training you will experience Agile practices that you can apply in your teams\, as well as methods on how your organization can become more Agile. \nThe training can be organized on-site (in your company)\, tailored to companies needs. Choose the date and send your request to scrum@puzzlesoftware.rs or benlinders@gmail.com! \nThis workshop is done in collaboration with Puzzle Software/Agile Serbia.\n \n\n\nDetailed Information\nDelivering Value with Agile Training is a two-day training where you will learn how to apply agile throughout the organization to improve organizational agility. Also\, you will learn how to apply agile practices to develop the right product\, deliver faster with better quality\, as well as how to become a happy high-performing team! On this training you will experience Agile practices that you can apply in your teams\, as well as methods on how your organization can become more Agile!If your organization and team are doing an Agile transformation but not seeing the expected benefits; having difficulties communicating and working together as a self-organized team and having difficulties to adjust themselves to short delivery times\, then this training is for you! \nTarget Audience:\nDelivering value with Agile training is for Agile and Lean Coaches\, Technical Leads\, furthermore Scrum Masters\, Product Owners\, Project Managers. Likewise for everyone else who is supporting teams in agile transformations. \nContent:\nThe agenda is preliminary and therefore will be adjusted based on the interest of the participants. \nDay 1 – Making Agile Work for You \n\nIntroduction\, discussion on what you consider a value\,\nCommunicating with customers and defining user stories/backlog – set up a task board\,\nEffective collaboration/teamwork – attendees will divide in teams to create a product\,\nGetting customer feedback – teams will demonstrate their product\,\nInspect and adapt – teams will do a retrospective\,\nDealing with impediments – play the impediment game.\n\nDay 2 – Improving Organizational Agility \n\nAgile mindset: values and principles\, exercise to find out which ones are most important\,\nSafety and trust – retrospective exercise to explore and improve this area\,\nHow agile are you – play the agile self-assessment game\,\nDriving change in organizations: discussion of good practices\,\nAgile journey: attendees define their takeaways and make a short plan for their agile journey.\n\nTakeaways:\nBy the end of this Training you will… \n\nPractice working with Agile: due to planning\, daily stand-ups\, product reviews and retrospectives\,\nGet ideas for improving collaboration and communication with stakeholders to deliver more value\,\nFind out how to deal effectively with impediments to take control\, therefore truly become self-organized\,\nLearn tips and tricks to improve your agile way of working\,\nGet advice on selecting and applying Agile (Scrum\, Kanban\, XP\, Lean) practices effectively for you\,\nPractice how to assess your agility with Agile Self-assessments to find out how well you are doing\,\nLearn effective ways to travel your agile journey and even more find out what you need to do this\,\nGet ideas for improving collaboration and communication between teams and stakeholders and certainly break down barriers\,\nLearn tips and tricks to expand and scale an agile way of working throughout the organization.\n\nDetails about Delivering value with Agile training:\nJust like all other trainings that are organized by Agile Serbia & Puzzle Software\, Delivering Value with Agile Training is organized on scheduled date or can be organized on request where the Company is a host. \n\nDuration: 2 working days\nCertification: No\nSEU points: Earn up to 8 SEUs\, Category C\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBen Linders\nBen has more than 15 years’ experience as an adviser\, coach and trainer. He is an author of three books: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, What Drives Quality and Continuous Improvement. Also\, he is a creator of the Agile Self-assessment Game. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-delivering-value-with-agile-serbia/ LOCATION:Puzzle Software\, Crnotravska 27\, Belgrade\, 11000\, Serbia CATEGORIES:Improve Organizational Agility,Making Agile Work,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/delivering-value-with-agile-Agile-Serbia-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191214 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20190924T213254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191221T132618Z UID:35252-1576108800-1576281599@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:FlowCon France 2019 DESCRIPTION:At FlowCon France I will give a talk about Learning at Scale. The aim of FlowCon is to help all those who want to make their organizations more fluid. \nLearning at Scale\nWhere we are seeing more and more individual and team level learning and continuous improvement in organizations\, improvements at the higher levels still tend to pose significant challenges. We learn as a team and learn how to be a team\, but when we reach the borders of our team and have to deal with more complex systems involving people from our ecosystem and even sometimes from people outside our ecosystem\, many improvement practices break down and don’t lead to sustainable results. At the same time\, the bigger and more complex our solutions become\, the more we need to be able to secure improvement at all levels in the organization. \nIn this talk\, Ben Linders will explore what we can do to increase our understanding of systemic problems at higher levels in organizations\, and how to use that to improve the performance and agility of organizations. He will show how we can apply techniques like system/multi-team retrospectives and systems thinking to get improvement going at a level of two higher than the team\, and present the benefits that this can bring to teams and organizations as a whole. \nFlowCon France\nAfter 6 editions that have placed it among the reference conferences in France\, Lean Kanban France has become FlowCon France. We wanted a new identity that is more in line with what we want to share and promote: the flow. \nOur goal is to help all those who want to make their organizations more fluid. \nFlowCon is about offering quality content\, French and international\, in a warm and informal setting around topics such as Kanban\, agility\, continuous delivery\, user experience\, decentralized management\, etc. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/flowcon-france-2019/ LOCATION:Beffroi de Montrouge\, Avenue de la République\, Montrouge\, 92120\, France CATEGORIES:Conference,France ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/flowcon-France-2019-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20191210T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20191210T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20191113T132841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191113T132841Z UID:37519-1576004400-1576008000@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:How to Improve Your DevOps Practices and Culture DESCRIPTION:I’m doing a webinar on How to Improve Your DevOps Practices and Culture on Dzone on Tuesday\, Dec 10\, 2019 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM CET. The webinar is sponsored by Logi Analytics. \nHow to Improve Your DevOps Practices and Culture\nAdopting DevOps throughout an organization often comes with challenges\, like getting people aligned on how to do the work\, breaking down organizational barriers\, and building collaboration skills. Although there’s often no easy solution\, there is a lot that can be done to reap the benefits from DevOps and increase organizational agility. \nIn this webinar\, Ben Linders\, an Independent Consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement\, explores how to effectively apply DevOps practices and what can be done to establish a collaborative culture in organizations. You’ll learn: \n\nHow teams can use continuous delivery practices to ship software to customers\nWhat can be done to enable fast feedback on the quality and deployability of the system to everyone involved\nHow professionals from development and operations can collaborate to solve issues\nHow to explore production issues and failures in agile retrospectives to improve\n\nHosted by DZone\, sign up here: Register: How to Improve Your DevOps Practices and Culture URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/how-to-improve-your-devops-practices-and-culture/ LOCATION:Webinar\, Online\, Worldwide\, 1000AA\, Netherlands CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Russian federation,Serbia,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,United Aram Emirates,US,Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/webinar-improve-DevOps-practices-Ben-Linders-Dzone-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191205 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20190704T103901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200209T134024Z UID:32047-1575244800-1575503999@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:DevOpsCon Munich 2019 DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to DevOpsCon to talk about Organizational Agility: Taking Retrospectives to the Next Level and do a mini-workshop on Impediments. Join me in Munich on December 2-4\, 2019. \nOrganizational Agility: Taking Retrospectives to the Next Level\nNowadays many agile teams are doing retrospectives regularly. They are investing time to reflect\, learn\, and take action to improve their way of working and deal with problems that they are facing in a structural way. \nOrganizations are seeing the benefits from this: teams that are becoming empowered\, being able to deliver more value\, happy employees\, and fewer people leaving the organization. \nIt’s time to take retrospectives to a higher level\, and use them to reveal and solve systemic organizational problems. Problems that exist at a project or product level\, are related to the collaboration between teams and their stakeholders. Agile Retrospectives can be used to do that\, but you need a different approach. \nIn this session\, Ben Linders will show how we can use retrospectives to improve the agility of organizations. \nHe will explore: \n\nHow we can actively involve external stakeholders into the team retrospectives\nWhat can be done to focus retrospectives on end-to-end goals and organizational-wide collaboration\nHow to do multi-team retrospectives at the project\, product\, or system level\nHow to create transparency on the targets and show how teams contribute to them in retrospectives\nHow to assist teams in self-assessing their agility\n\nThe Impediment Board Game\nProblem? What Problem? Learn how to deal effectively with Impediments \nIf your organization wants to become agile and lean\, teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. Playing the Impediment Board Game\, you will practice how to recognize and analyze impediments\, understand how they hinder teams\, and decide what to do by deploying agile and lean principles and good practices. You’ll learn to become more effective by recognizing impediments early and get rid of them before they become a major issue. \nThe impediment game teaches you the five steps for handling impediments effectively: \n\nrecognize and analyze impediments\nfind out how they hinder the team\nfind effective solutions to deal with them\ndecide what to do and who can do it\nlearn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments\n\nAgile coaches use the Impediment Board Game in agile transformations to coach teams and help them to become self-organized and empowered to solve any impediments that they might face on their agile journey. Come play the Impediment Board Game! \nDevOpsCon\nThe Conference for Continuous Delivery\, Microservices\, Containers\, Cloud & Lean Business. \nDevOps is fundamentally changing the IT world and sets the path for successful business transformation. Join DevOpsCon to learn about the latest tools\, technologies\, and methodologies for building and maintaining secure\, scalable\, and resilient software systems. \nHow do cloud platforms\, microservices\, and Kubernetes play together with comprehensive automation and continuous delivery? How can you handle increasing complexity in your organization and empower high-performance teams with the right tools and agile methodologies? DevOpsCon provides plenty of answers. \nAt DevOpsCon\, you will meet internationally recognized thought leaders of the DevOps movement and benefit from their expertise. Attend inspiring sessions and in-depth workshops to learn what you need to push your DevOps skills to the next level. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/devopscon-munich-2019/ LOCATION:Hilton Hotel Munich Park\, Am Tucherpark 7\, Munich\, 80538\, Germany CATEGORIES:Conference,Germany,Problem Solving,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/DevOpsCon-Munich-2019-banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="S&S Media":MAILTO:info@sandsmedia.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191126 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191127 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20190908T184828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200223T064825Z UID:34316-1574726400-1574812799@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Workshop Improving Organizational Agility at Agile Management Congress 2019 DESCRIPTION:I’m giving my Workshop Improving Organizational Agility at the Agile Management Congress on November 26 in Prague\, Czech Republic. Tickets are on sale: Workshop only ticket tickets and also Workshop + Congress tickets. \n \nLearn how to apply agile throughout your organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster with better quality\, and improve organizational agility! \nMany organizations are going through agile transformations. They are implementing Scrum or Kanban and using large-scale agile frameworks like Lean\, SAFe\, LeSS or DAD\, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. Unfortunately\, those transformations do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. \nIf your organization is \n\nhaving difficulties to adjust itself to shorten delivery times\nhaving products with quality issues and is loosing 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! \nImproving organizational agility isn’t easy. But it can be done! \nImproving Organizational Agility\nIn the workshop Improving Organizational Agility you will experience how your organization can become more agile: \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. \nAudience\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 you to apply agile methods and frameworks effectively to increase organizational agility. \nResult\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\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\nWe have available Workshop only tickets and also Workshop + Congress tickets. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-improving-organizational-agility-at-agile-management-congress-2019/ LOCATION:Aguarra Training Center Kladno\, Ulice Váňova 3180\, Kladno\, CZ-27201\, Czech Republic CATEGORIES:Czech Republic,Improve Organizational Agility,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/Workshop-Increasing-Organizational-Agility-Agile-Management-Congress-2019-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191125 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191126 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20191005T121253Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200209T134046Z UID:35632-1574640000-1574726399@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Agile Management Congress 2019 DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to the Agile Management Congress in Prague on Nov 25 to do a mini-workshop on Dealing with Impediments and a full-day workshop Improving Organizational Agility on Nov 26. \nProblem? What problem? Learn how to deal effectively with impediments.\nIf your organization wants to become agile and lean\, teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. \nPlaying the Impediment Board Game\, you will practice how to recognize and analyze impediments\, understand how they hinder teams\, and decide what to do by deploying agile and lean principles and good practices. You’ll learn to become more effective by recognizing impediments early and get rid of them before they become a major issue. \nThe impediment game teaches you the five steps for handling impediments effectively:\n– recognize and analyze impediments\n– find out how they hinder the team\n– find effective solutions to deal with them\n– decide what to do and who can do it\n– learn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments \nAgile coaches use the Impediment Board Game in agile transformations to coach teams and help them to become self-organized and empowered to solve any impediments that they might face on their agile journey. \nCome play the impediment board game! \nAgile Management Congress\nAgile Management Congress (AMC) is a forum and learning platform on agile management for knowledge-based organizations. \nWe have a mission to address management innovators – game changers and innovative leaders from companies\, consultancies and academia\, who are trying to build humancentric and alternative organizational arrangements to opposing vertical corporate bureaucracies\, to share their practical transformational experience and learn from each other. Working in a small groups\, through series of practical mini workshops\, case studies\, moderated discussions and group work with peers they may gain better inside into how agility can help them transform their business or daily routine. It is place of learning from gurus\, sharing knowledge with peers\, gain new inspiration and ideas with active engagement of the participants! This is not a place to sit\, listen and get entertained. Along the day we will encourage intensive networking in a safe environment we provide. \nTo ensure intensive group learning\, only 40 seats is available. We will encourage delegates from different industries and different cultural context through different geographical origins and limit numbers of tickets for a single organization or region. Diversity matter. \nThe main topic for 2019 is “INSTITUTIONAL INVERSION FOR AGILE ENTERPRISE”. \nImplementing Agile into organization begins with the change of mindset\, company culture and with the definition of success for operations differently. The difference\, however\, conflict with general perceptions of the industry in today’s world\, how an organization should be managed and how management should behave. What are the experiences of those who crossed the abyss? \nWe plan to cover topics like: \n\nbuilding an agile culture\, dealing with (internal) issues\,\ndealing with stakeholders – employees\, customers\, investors\npeople engagement and workplace design\,\nrole of management in an agile organization\,\nrecruitment for agility\, growth of human capital selecting vs. growing people\,\ncross-industry experience and inspirational managerial techniques\,\nremuneration for the agile era\,\nalternative financial instruments for “control” and forecasting\,\nHR aspects of agility\, selecting vs. growing people\, strategies\,\nand more. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-management-congress-2019/ LOCATION:Prague\, Prague\, Czech Republic CATEGORIES:Conference,Czech Republic,Problem Solving,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/agile-management-congress-Prague-2019-agilia-Ben-Linders-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191023 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191024 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20190911T130250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240503T112559Z UID:34427-1571788800-1571875199@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Agile Leadership Day / Business Agility Day 2019 DESCRIPTION:I will attend the Agile Leadership Day / Business Agility Day in Zurich on October 23 as an editor on culture and methods for InfoQ. \nAgile Leadership Day\n\nAgile Leadership\, Mindset\n& Culture\nTeam Agility (Scrum\,\nKanban & co.)\nStrategic Agility\nAgile Organization\n\nBusiness Agility Day\nUnlock your potential for: \n\nDigital & Agile Transformation\nPeople\, HR and Motivation Systems\nExecutive Leadership & Culture\nThe Role of Innovation & Customers\nAgile Operating Models\nStrategy & Organisational Design URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-leadership-day-business-agility-day-2019/ LOCATION:Samsung Hall\, Hoffnigstrasse 1\, Zurich\, 8600\, Switzerland CATEGORIES:Conference,Switzerland ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/agile-leadership-day-business-agility-day-2019-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191016 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191018 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20190709T082236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190709T082236Z UID:32233-1571184000-1571356799@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:TestCon Europe 2019 DESCRIPTION:I’m returning to TestCon to present how to improve software quality with retrospectives. Join me October 16-17 in Vilnius\, Lithuania. \nImproving Software Quality with Retrospectives\nAgile Retrospectives can be used to investigate quality issues or to perform actions that improve the quality of the software that is delivered. They complement debugging and testing and provide solutions to learn and build quality in from the start. \nAn agile retrospective is a practice for teams to reflect\, learn\, and to continuously become better in what they do. They focus on the process and way of working to help testers and developers to collaboratively improve products and deliver more value. \nIn this presentation\, Ben Linders provides suggestions with examples of what you can do in your agile retrospectives to improve software quality. \nWhat can attendees learn:\n• How to prepare and facilitate an agile retrospective\n• Explore major or repeating problems with a Root Cause Analysis\n• Do a futurespective for building an awesome product\n• Reflect on your quality practices with the Agile Self-Assessment Game\n• Solve quality issues with a Stop the Line exercise \nTestCon Europe\nFrom the conference website: \nTestCon Europe is the leading conference for everyone willing to learn testing trends\, best practices and make their contribution to the smoother software development cycle and quality. \nThe event provides an excellent platform to keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends\, exchange experiences\, discuss and deliberate ideas and benefit from networking opportunities. \nThe event features the hottest topics in industry covering: Test Management\, Testing Techniques and Methodologies\, Test Automation\, Performance Testing\, Testing the Internet of Things (IoT)\, Testing Metrics\, Agile Testing\, Test Team Leadership and Soft Skills. \n  URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/testcon-europe-2019/ LOCATION:Multikino Vilnius\, Ozo str. 18\, Vilnius\, Lithuania CATEGORIES:Conference,Lithuania ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/testcon-Europe-2019-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191002 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20190301T090751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190808T062424Z UID:29233-1569888000-1569974399@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Workshop Making Agile Work for You at eXperience Agile 2019 [Sold out] DESCRIPTION:I’m giving the workshop Making Agile Work for You at eXperience Agile 2019. You can sign up at eXperience Agile Eventbrite. \nLearn how to apply agile practices to develop the right products\, deliver faster\, increase quality\, and become a happy high-performing team! \n \nMany teams are adopting an agile way of working with Scrum\, Kanban\, XP\, Lean\, or any other agile framework. Their expectation is that it will help them to better serve the IT needs of their stakeholders and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. Unfortunately\, it doesn’t always work that way. \nIf your team is \n\nfinding it difficult to agree and decide with stakeholders on what to deliver when\nnot delivering working software every sprint or not able to finish user stories within reasonable time\nfinding it hard to understand what your customers actually need and unsure if you are delivering value to them\nhaving difficulties communicating and working together as a self-organized team\nfeeling micromanaged and not empowered to decide and take control of their own journey\ndoing agile/Scrum/Kanban rituals but feeling that they are not always helpful\nnot getting good actions out of your retrospective or actions not being done\n\nthen this is the workshop for you! \nApplying agile to make it work for your team isn’t easy. But it can be done! \nMaking Agile Work for You\nIn the workshop Making Agile Work for You you will experience agile practices that you can apply in your teams: \n\nPractice how you can effectively tailor agile for planning your work\, doing daily stand-ups with Scrum/Kanban boards\, gathering feedback with product reviews/demos\, and improving your way of working with agile retrospectives.\nLearn how to apply agile practices with an agile mindset.\nIncrease your ability to pick those practices that help you to do a better job and collaborate better with your stakeholders.\n\nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you become more agile and lean. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\n(Senior) Developers and Tester\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 develop the right products for your business and customers\, reduce your delivery time\, increase the quality of your software products\, and become a happy high performing team. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nPractice working with Agile and Scrum/Kanban: planning\, daily stand-ups\, product reviews and retrospectives\nGet ideas for improving collaboration and communication with stakeholders to deliver more value\nFind out how to deal effectively with impediments to take control and truly become self-organized\nLearn tips and tricks to improve your agile way of working\nGet advice on selecting and applying agile (Scrum\, Kanban\, XP\, Lean) practices effectively for you\n\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 URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/making-agile-work-for-you-at-experience-agile-2019/ LOCATION:EDP Headquarters\, Avenida 24 de Julho\, 12\, Lisbon\, 1249-300\, Portugal CATEGORIES:Making Agile Work,Portugal,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/Workshop-making-agile-work-for-you-Ben-Linders-Experience-Agile-2019-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190921 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20190909T212757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220902T144524Z UID:34349-1568851200-1569023999@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Agile Greece Summit 2019 DESCRIPTION:I will be attending the Agile Greece Summit on September 19 and 20\, and give the workshop Improving Organizational Agility on September 18. \nThe conference theme is: \nBuild great teams that can change the world \nThis will be the fourth time that the Agile Greece Summit is held\, and I’ve presented\, attended\, and given workshops at all editions 🙂 \n\nAgile Greece Summit (AGRS) is an international event/conference gathering world class agile experts\, powered by Agile Greece  Org .\nAddressing developers\, team leaders\, managers and executives\, AGRS brings together top class agile speakers and and agile practitioners from around the world. \nFollowing four very successful conferences and having hosted some of the most significant and influential people of the Agile movement\, we’re up for the fifth AGRS. \nFocusing on improvement\, we aim this year to bring you a different conference setup with an enriched experience. \nI will also be covering this event for InfoQ.com. \nJoin my workshop on September 18\, or meet me in Athens on September 19 and 20! URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-greece-summit-2019/ LOCATION:Events Center of University of West Attica\, Thivon 250\, Athens\, 122 44 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/Workshop-Making-Agile-Work-for-You-at-Agile-Greece-Summit-2018-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190918 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190919 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20190509T075718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220902T143834Z UID:30340-1568764800-1568851199@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Workshop Improving Organizational Agility at Agile Greece Summit 2019 DESCRIPTION:For the fifth time in a row\, I’m returning to the Agile Greece Summit to give workshops. Join me for the Workshop Improving Organizational Agility on Wednesday\, September 18. \nLearn how to apply agile throughout your organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster with better quality\, and improve organizational agility! \nWorkshop Improving Organizational Agility\nMany organizations are going through agile transformations. They are implementing Scrum or Kanban and using large-scale agile frameworks like Lean\, SAFe\, LeSS or DAD\, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. Unfortunately\, those transformations do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. \nIf your organization is \n\nhaving difficulties to adjust itself to shorten delivery times\nhaving products with quality issues and is loosing 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! \nImproving organizational agility isn’t easy. But it can be done! \nImproving Organizational Agility\nIn the workshop Improving Organizational Agility you will experience how your organization can become more agile: \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. \nAudience\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 you to apply agile methods and frameworks effectively to increase organizational agility. \nResult\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\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\nPractical information\nDuration 1 day\, Wednesday 18th of Sept\nVenue: TBD \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 URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-improving-organizational-agility-at-agile-greece-summit-2019/ LOCATION:Events Center of University of West Attica\, Thivon 250\, Athens\, 122 44 CATEGORIES:Greece,Improve Organizational Agility,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/Workshop-improving-organizational-agility-Athens-Agile-Greece-summit-2019-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190912 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190914 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20190704T112841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190704T112841Z UID:32054-1568246400-1568419199@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Women in Tech 2019 DESCRIPTION:I will be attending Women in Tech Dublin as an editor for InfoQ\, to write about digital innovation\, leadership\, culture\, diversity\, and other inspiring topics. \nAbout Women in Tech Dublin\nUnleash your challenger mindset at this year’s Women in Tech Dublin coming 12-13th September to The Convention Centre Dublin. Join over 1\,000 inspirational women (and men!) in technology for two days of innovative content in a diverse and inclusive environment. \nIreland is poised to lead the charge on challenging the status-quo of the tech industry and to shape a future that is full of the best and brightest voices – across all verticals. The opportunities available mean it’s not only an amazing time to be in tech\, but to be a leading voice in the movement for positive change. \nWhether you’re a part of the growing startup ecosystem\, an experienced tech-veteran\, or a tech professional looking to take the next step\, join us and your peers as we charge towards 2020 and work towards changing the face of the tech industry for good! \nDisrupt or be disrupted – secure a spot among your fellow innovators today! URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/women-in-tech-2019/ LOCATION:The Convention Centre Dublin\, Spencer Dock\, N Wall Quay\, North Wall\, Dublin\, D01 T1W6\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Conference,Ireland ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/women-in-tech-dublin-2019-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190620 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190621 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20190501T083043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190614T203654Z UID:30181-1560988800-1561075199@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Rebelcon.io 2019 DESCRIPTION:I’ve been invited to join Rebelcon.io in Cork\, Ireland on June 20\, and cover talks given at this conference for InfoQ.com\, and I will play the Agile Retrospective Bingo in a mini-workshop. \nFrom the conference website: \nIreland’s largest Software Engineering conference is back in 2019\, on June 19th & 20th at the Clayton Hotel Cork City. \nFor a third year in a row\, RebelCon is bringing together the Cork Software Engineering community over 2 days of workshops and talks on the latest technology\, culture and development practices in the software industry. \nRebelCon is a not for profit technology conference run by the developer community for the developer community. \nRebelCon is hosted by Poppulo with support for the initiative from it@cork Skillnet \nAgile Retrospective Bingo\nThe Agile Retrospectives Bingo is a game to identify and discuss unproductive behavior in retrospective meetings\, improve team communication and collaboration\, and make agile retrospectives more valuable. It’s a kind of bullshit bingo which is geared towards agile retrospectives. \nIn this short workshop\, we will play the Agile Retrospectives Bingo in teams. Half of the team will do a retrospective using role play\, the other half will observe what happens. When an observer sees unproductive behavior\, they will put a coin on the bingo card. The first one who has a horizontal\, vertical\, or diagonal line\, yells bingo and the retrospective stops. Then we’ll reflect and discuss what happened to learn how we can deal with unproductive behavior. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/rebelcon-io-2019/ LOCATION:The Clayton Hotel\, Lapp's Quay\, Cork\, T12 RD6E\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Conference,Ireland,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/rebelcon-conference-2019-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190614 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190615 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20190112T135707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190316T084114Z UID:28782-1560470400-1560556799@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Agility Workshop: Leveraging the benefits of Retrospectives [SOLD OUT] DESCRIPTION:I’m giving a full day Agility Workshop – Leveraging the benefits of Retrospectives at DevOps Conference 2019 Berlin on June 14\, 2019. \nThis workshop is SOLD OUT – no more tickets available. As an alternative\, please join Increasing Agility with Retrospectives at ACE! on May 22 in Krakow\, Poland. \nLeveraging the benefits of Retrospectives\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. \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. You will learn how to scale agile retrospectives\, doing them with multiple teams. Explore ways how retrospectives can be used to share learnings and apply DevOps to align the way of working in the whole organization. \nThe best way to learn retrospectives is through experience\, by doing them yourself and participating in retrospectives. In this workshop\, you will practice facilitation skills with different retrospective exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox. You will learn how to introduce and improve retrospectives in your organization\, do agile self-assessments and readiness checks and to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to increase their agility with DevOps and become more agile and lean. \nAudience & Requirements\nThis workshop is intended for:\n•    Agile coaches and change agents\n•    Scrum masters and retrospective facilitators\n•    Team\, product or project managers\n•    (senior) managers\n•    Anybody involved in retrospectives \nAttendees should have basic knowledge about agile retrospectives and some experience with facilitating retrospectives. \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\n \nDoing it yourself and reflecting\, that is the way people learn new practices and skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile looks and feels. I answer questions\, share my experience\, coach people\, 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! \nAbout the Conference\nDevOps Conference 2019 Berlin is the Conference for Continuous Delivery\, Microservices\, Containers\, Clouds and Lean Business URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agility-workshop-leveraging-the-benefits-of-retrospectives/ LOCATION:Mercure Hotel MOA Berlin\, Stephanstraße 41\, Berlin\, 10559\, Germany CATEGORIES:Germany,Retrospectives Agility,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/agility-workshop-leveraging-benefits-retrospectives-Ben-Linders-DevOpsCon-2019-banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="S&S Media":MAILTO:info@sandsmedia.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190531 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190601 DTSTAMP:20260501T022735 CREATED:20190424T072159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190424T072259Z UID:30100-1559260800-1559347199@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Agile Portugal 2019 DESCRIPTION:I’ve been invited to speak at Agile Portugal 2019 where I will talk about Teams\, what’s in it for me? See you in Porto\, May 31. \nTeams\, what’s in it for me?\nAgile talks a lot about self-organized teams\, where developers and testers work together to deliver software. But what can you do to make teams succeed? This talk explores why people would like to work in teams\, what managers can do to enable a team structure and culture\, and how to (not) manage agile teams. \nWhat would attendees learn: \n\n\nWhat is an agile team (and what not)\nWhy would you as a developer want to work in a team\, what’s in it for me\nWhich benefits do teams have for organizations\, stakeholders\, customers\, etc\nHow to manage teams\, the do’s and don’ts\nHow developers\, managers\, and business people\, can effectively communicate and collaborate\n\nAgile Portugal 2019\nFrom the conference website: \nAgile Portugal is an annual international conference about Agile Software Development and its practices. In its 10th edition\, we expect more than 400 attendees to join us in Porto (ISEP) on a day of great talks and open sessions. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-portugal-2019/ LOCATION:Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto\, Share R. Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida 431\, Porto\, 4200-072\, Portugal CATEGORIES:Conference,Portugal ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/agile-portugal-2019-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190525 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190526 DTSTAMP:20260501T022736 CREATED:20190502T134631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T134631Z UID:30211-1558742400-1558828799@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:P&PDay Lviv: Keynote Driving Improvements with Agile Retrospectives DESCRIPTION:I have been invited to give the keynote Driving Improvements with Agile Retrospectives at the Lviv Project & Product Management Day on May 25\, 2019. \nDriving Improvements with Agile Retrospectives\nAgile retrospectives have become a practice that is used by many teams to inspect and adapt their way of working. They provide insight into the activities performed and show how people are working together to deliver products \nDid you know that you can also use agile retrospectives to drive improvements in projects and for products? \nIn his keynote\, Ben Linders will explain what agile retrospectives are\, how you can do them\, and how they compare to project evaluations\, post-mortems\, and lessons-learned sessions. He will explore how you can join agile retrospectives as a project manager or product manager and the business benefits that agile retrospectives can bring. \nProject & Product Management Day\nOn May 25\, the 14th Project Management Conference will be held in Lviv (Previous times it was called Lviv Project Management Day) – Lviv Project & Product Management Day 2019. \nThe participants of our conference are Project Manager\, Product Manager\, CTO\, Delivery Manager\, CEO. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/ppday-lviv-keynote-driving-improvements-with-agile-retrospectives/ LOCATION:Lviv Art Palace\, Kopernyka St\, 17\, Lviv\, 79000\, Ukraine CATEGORIES:Conference,Ukraine ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/lviv-project-product-management-day-keynote-ben-linders-retrospectives-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190525 DTSTAMP:20260501T022736 CREATED:20190215T071628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200209T211010Z UID:29072-1558569600-1558742399@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:ACE! 2019 DESCRIPTION:At ACE! 2019 I’m doing a mini-workshop where you can practice effective techniques for dealing with impediments. \nProblem? What Problem? – Getting rid of impediments quickly and effectively\nIf your organization wants to become agile and lean\, your teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. In this game\, you will practice how to recognize and analyze impediments\, understand how they can hinder your team\, and decide what can be done and who can take appropriate action by deploying agile and lean principles and good practices. \nAn agile way of working doesn’t guarantee that there will be no problems. Most probably there will be; working agile will make them surface. Agile teams need skills to deal with impediments to be effective and be able to deliver and satisfy the needs of their customers and stakeholders. Agile teams are self-organized\, nobody will solve their problems for them. They can decide how they want to do their work. Having the authority to decide comes with a responsibility: you have to solve problems that the team is facing. You cannot rely on management to solve them for you. That may sound like a disadvantage\, but it actually is an advantage since you are allowed to solve them in a way that is most suitable and effective for you. \nThe impediment game that we will play in this session will teach you the five steps for handling impediments effectively: \n\nrecognizing impediments\nunderstanding how they are hindering the team\nfind effective solutions to deal with them\ndecide what to do and who can do it\nlearn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments\n\nThe steps suggest that they have to be done after each other\, which is often preferred in most situations. But this is not a waterfall process. \nUsually\, the steps take little time\, you can go through all steps within an hour (for instance by doing a retrospective) or in less time (e.g. doing the steps during your daily stand-up). If you are stuck in one step you can decide to proceed to the next one\, but then be prepared to go back and repeat the steps once you have more information. \nWant to attend ACE? Ask me for a discount code! \nIncreasing Agility with Retrospectives\nOn the 22nd of May\, I’m giving a full day Master Class at ACE!: Learn to achieve agility through retrospectives. Ticket sales has started. URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/ace-2019/ LOCATION:Multikino Kraków\, Dobrego Pasterza 128\, Krakow\, 30-962\, Poland CATEGORIES:Conference,Poland,Problem Solving ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/ACE-conference-2019-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190522 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190523 DTSTAMP:20260501T022736 CREATED:20190215T064940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T180532Z UID:29067-1558483200-1558569599@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Workshop Increasing Agility with Retrospectives at ACE! DESCRIPTION:I’m giving my workshop Increasing Agility with Retrospectives at the ACE! conference on May 22 in Krakow\, Poland. \nLearn to achieve agility through retrospectives\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. \nhttps://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/Ben-Linders-at-ACE-Masterclass-Improving-your-Agility.mp4\nWhat will you get out of the workshop Increasing Agility with Retrospectives\n\nHow to scale retrospectives in the organization over multiple teams\nUnderstanding how retrospectives can be used to do continuous improvement and improve organizational agility\nEstablishing pre-requirements for effective retrospectives in the organization\nAdvanced facilitation skills for doing effective and efficient retrospectives\nApproaches to improve the usage and results of retrospectives\n\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 URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-increasing-agility-with-retrospectives-at-ace/ LOCATION:Studio Coworking\, Królewska 2\, krakow\, 30-045\, Poland CATEGORIES:Poland,Retrospectives Agility,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/Workshop-increasing-agility-with-retrospectives-ACE-2019-Ben-Linders-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190509 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190510 DTSTAMP:20260501T022736 CREATED:20190305T204749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190305T204749Z UID:29263-1557360000-1557446399@www.benlinders.com SUMMARY:Workshop Improving Organizational Agility in London DESCRIPTION:I’m giving the workshop Improving Organizational Agility in London on May 9\, 2019\, in collaboration with Agile Games Workshop. \nIn the workshop Ben will take you through a number of exercises to help you learn how to apply agile throughout your organization in order to develop the right products\, deliver them faster with better quality\, and improve organizational agility! \nWorkshop Improving Organizational Agility\nMany organizations are going through agile transformations. They are implementing Scrum or Kanban and using large-scale agile frameworks like Lean\, SAFe\, LeSS or DAD\, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. Unfortunately\, those transformations do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. \nIn this workshop\, you will be able to: \n– Practice how to create an environment that enables teams and empower them to apply agile practices.\n– Learn ways to establish an agile mindset throughout the organization.\n– Create a culture that supports collaboration and which motivates people to work together to create high-quality products and services.\nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you become more agile and lean. \nAbout Ben Linders\nBen Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement\, based in The Netherlands. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, What Drives Quality and Continuous Improvement and the creator of the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nAs an adviser\, coach and trainer he helps organizations with deploying effective software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement\, collaboration and communication\, and professional development\, to deliver business value to customers. \nVenue\nThis one day workshop will be held at the De Morgan House in Russell Square. Home to the London Mathematical Society\, the building serves as a prestigious hub for UK mathematics. \nLunch will be provided and teas/coffees served throughout the day. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n– Agile and Lean Coaches\n– Agile Consultants and Change Managers\n– Anybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n– Technical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\n– Product Owners and Project/Line Managers \nResult\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n– Practice how to assess your agility with Agile Self-assessments to find out how well you are doing\n– Learn effective ways to travel your agile journey and find out what you need to do this\n– Get ideas for improving collaboration and communication between teams and stakeholders and break down barriers\n– Learn tips and tricks to expand and scale an agile way of working throughout the organization\n– Get advice on selecting and applying agile and lean practices effectively \nPricing\nEarly Birds : £300 plus VAT\nStandard Price : £350 plus VAT URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-improving-organizational-agility-london-may-2019/ LOCATION:De Morgan House\, 57-58 Russell Square\, London\, WC1B 4HS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Improve Organizational Agility,UK,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.benlinders.com/wp-content/uploads/workshop-improving-organizational-agility-Ben-Linders-London-May-9-2019-banner-.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR