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SUMMARY:Spark the Change 2018
DESCRIPTION:Spark the Change brings together leaders from all businesses\, with one mission only: to work together to create lasting and total change.  With events in London\, Toronto\, Melbourne\, Montreal\, Pune\, Amsterdam and now Paris Spark aims to inspire you and help you develop the skills you need to make a lasting mark\, and undergo a positive change. \nSpark is a (un)conference: \nWe bring series of inspirational talks from people who already went through a positive change before\, and are keen to share their learnings. Follow practical workshops created just for you by today’s transformers and disruptors. \nI will be covering Spark the Change for InfoQ.com.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/spark-the-change-2018/
LOCATION:Théatre de la Madeleine\, 19 Rue de Surène\, Paris\, 75008\, France
CATEGORIES:Conference,France
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SUMMARY:Workshop Making Agile Work for You at Craft 2018
DESCRIPTION:Update: Ticket sales has started! \nLearn how to apply agile practices to develop the right products\, deliver faster\, increase quality\, and become a happy high-performing team! \nI’m returning to Craft in 2018 to give my workshop Making Agile Work for you. Tickets are available on the Craft Conference website \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/workshop-making-agile-work-craft-2018/
LOCATION:Ericsson Budapest\, Magyar Tudósok körútja 11\, Budapest\, 1117\, Hungary
CATEGORIES:Hungary,Making Agile Work,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop Delivering Value with Agile in Madrid
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to apply agile practices throughout your organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster\, increase quality\, and improve organizational agility with happy high-performing teams in Madrid on April 23-24\, 2018! \nMany teams are adopting an agile way of working hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. The organizations are going through agile transformations\, implementing Scrum or Kanban and using large-scale agile frameworks like Lean\, SAFe\, LeSS or DAD. Unfortunately\, those transformations do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. \nIf your teams are \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\nor if 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! \nApplying agile to make it work for your teams and improving organizational agility isn’t easy. But it can be done! \nThis workshop consists of two days of intensive training and exercises\, loaded with examples and suggestions to help you become more agile and lean. The first day focuses on applying agile practices in teams where the second day dives into organizational-wide agility. Both days can also be attended individually. \nMaking Agile Work for You (Day 1)\nOn day one 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\nWhat will you get out of the first day: \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\nImproving Organizational Agility (Day 2)\nOn day two you will learn 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\nWhat will you get out of the second day: \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 throughout the organization\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAgile Consultants and Change Managers\n(Senior) Developers and Tester\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\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. \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 \nMore information\nThe price for this two-day workshop is €735 excl. VAT. \nIncluded: \n\nFull day workshops\nLunch\nMaterials\nFree Lifetime Support\n\nThis workshop is done in collaboration with SQS Spain in Madrid: \nSQS S.A. is the leading company in software quality consultancy services. All our services and our products are focused on the quality assurance of our customers’ software products and developments. We have managed to achieve this objective through our consultancy services\, our training programmes and by developing new tools. \nDownload the workshop brochure. \nRegistration\nRegistration is done by SQS in Madrid: \n\nDelivering Value with Agile. Taller de dos días en Madrid impartido por Ben Linders 23-24 Abril \nSQS organiza junto con Ben Linders un taller de dos días de duración (impartido en inglés) en el que se darán las claves  para implementar de manera correcta las metodologías ágiles en  equipos  y organizaciones\, obteniendo los mejores resultados. El taller consta de dos días de formación intensiva y ejercicios\, cargados de ejemplos y sugerencias. \nEl curso tiene un coste de 735 Euros + IVA (Comida incluida) y los registros y más información se harán a través del e-mail silvia@sqs.es o el teléfono 94 480 46 17. \nUnable to come to Madrid? This workshop is also provided in other cities: \n\nDelivering Value with Agile in London on March 20-21\nDelivering Value with Agile in Amsterdam on March 20-21\n\nIf you want to know more about this workshop or any other workshops or training sessions\, feel free to contact me. \n +31 6 2901 3863\n info@benlinders.com\n Ben Linders
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-delivering-value-agile-madrid/
LOCATION:SQS Madrid\, Alcalá\, 35\, Madrid\, 28010\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Improve Organizational Agility,Making Agile Work,Spain,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Amsterdam
DESCRIPTION:Learn new exercises for your agile retrospectives\, find out how to create a safe environment\, and improve your facilitation skills in the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Amsterdam on April 17\, 2018! \nAgile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting at the end of each iteration to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions in the next iteration. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams you will practice exercises for facilitating retrospectives in teams. \nA great way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participating in retrospectives. In this workshop you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to facilitate retrospectives. You will learn the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value\, and benefits that they can bring to your team. \nWho should attend this workshop\nTwo important conditions to make retrospectives valuable are to have clear goals (why do you do retrospectives) and experienced facilitators (Scrum Masters and/or Agile Coaches). \nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nIn this workshop\, you will design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to become more agile and lean. \nRetrospective exercises\nIn this interactive workshop\, you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them uses a different kind of retrospective. We will choose from several retrospective exercises\, like: \n\nSetting your Agile Course with the Sail Boat Futurespective\nDealing with feelings in teams\nGetting Feedback with the Perfection Game \nMany Faces of Jack Sparrow\nConstellation\n…\n\nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives\n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what\, and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run retrospectives\nSkills for facilitating retrospectives\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nApply and Improve\nIn this workshop\, you will learn how to adapt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to provide retrospective facilitators with a toolbox with retrospective exercises enabling them to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization! \nTestimonials\n“The workshop presented in a clear way why retrospectives are the driving force to an organization which wants to improve. Using some playful exercises I learned several easy ways to extract the current status of the team and how to decide which should be the next steps to address potential problems and risks” \nNikolaos Raptis – Scrum Master – Software Developer at Scytl Secure Electronic Voting \n“Nice to join a workshop in which the attendees and teacher actually have profound hands-on experience with agile.”\n“Immersive\, good choice of subjects\, well led.”\n“A lot of examples.”\n“Good useful interactions and learning from other participants.” \nAttendees from a GOTO Amsterdam workshop \n“I got a better understanding of retrospectives and many ideas on how to use them in my work. I can suggest this workshop to anyone that wants to go agile.  Also thanks for the reading material\, I found it very helpful.” \nBill Souliotis – Manager Software Research & Development Graphics User Interface at BETA CAE Systems \n“After working together for many years\, our team (myself included) grew out of the need for formal retrospectives. This workshop helped to get some fresh ideas that can refuel our retros and stressed some key points about the necessity and importance of facilitation in these events.” \nYorgos Saslis – Solution Design Executive at CytechMobile.com \n“I’d like to thank you again for your excellent workshop. It was fun and I already started using some of the ideas with my team. The change is definitely notable.” \nLiran Ben-Porat\, qSpark LTD \n“Thanks once again for a wonderful workshop! We have a lot of useful outputs which we are going to implement. And thanks for the free copy of your book about the retrospectives\, now we are able to go through the topics once again and do the exercises in our company.” \nJakub Grós\, Project Engineer at Honeywell \n“I found the workshop very useful. We’ve already started to experiment with some action items we gave ourselves in the workshop\, doing changes in our overall retrospective approach. We are also trying out cross facilitation\, having our retrospectives facilitated by a Scrum master of another team.” \nSimona Humpolová\, Scrum master at EmbedIT \nI have taken some of my Scrum masters to Ben’s retrospective training. I like the training very much\, and also his website which contains many retro techniques. I still use this as a reference when I coach people. \nZoltán Ludányi\, Agile Software Development Consultant \nMore information\nPrice: €550\,- excl. VAT \nIncluded: \n\nFull day workshop\nLunch\nMaterials\nFree ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives or translated edition\nFree Lifetime Support\n\nThis workshop is done in collaboration with Trifork Amsterdam. Trifork is a leading full-service supplier of high-quality custom-built applications and end-to-end solutions\, and organizer of the GOTO conferences: the enterprise software development conference designed for team leads\, architects\, and project management organized by developers\, for developers. \nNote: This workshop will be given in English\, except when all attendees have a profound understanding of Dutch and agree that the workshop will be given in Dutch. All workshop materials are in English. \nRegistration\n\n\n \n\n\n\nName* \nAddress*\n \nPostal Code*\n \nCity* \nCountry*\n \nEmail* \nTelephone*\n \nPayment info (e.g. company name\, PO number) – added to invoice\n \nWhat do you expect to learn\n \nI have read and agree to conditions & cancellation policy (see below)*Yes\nNo\n \n\n\n\n\n€550\nQuantity\n\n\nAdd to cart \n\nConditions and cancellation policy\n– The workshop has to be paid in full before the workshop date.\n– Cancellation by the attendee is only allowed until one month before the workshop date.\n– If you cannot attend then a colleague can come instead (please inform me).\n– The workshop can be canceled by the organizer\, will be fully refunded. \nWhen you sign up and buy the workshop in this webshop you agree with these conditions \nIf you want to know more about this workshop or any other workshops or training sessions\, feel free to contact me. \n +31 6 2901 3863\n info@benlinders.com\n Ben Linders
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-for-teams-amsterdam-april-2018/
LOCATION:Trifork Amsterdam\, Rijnsburgstraat 9-11\, Amsterdam\, 1059 AT\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Netherlands,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Retrospective Facilitators Gathering 2018
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, a group of us who are passionate about retrospective facilitation gather to share observations\, grow our skills and work out things that are puzzling us. It’s a small\, invitation-only gathering\, which provides for an opportunity for very focused and high-density learning\, not to mention a bit of fun and interaction with our peers. \nThe Retrospective Facilitators Gathering is a yearly Open Space conference by and for experienced practitioners in agile retrospectives. People from all over the world come to this gathering to share experiences and ideas and to learn from other facilitators. \nOver the years I’ve learned a lot at the RFGs that I attended. It’s great to be among peers who share their experiences. The open space format enables that relevant topics pop up\, both for group and one-to-one sessions. \nI’m co-organizing the Retrospective Facilitators Gathering (RFG) in 2018 in the Netherlands\, and attending it to learn new exercises and techniques and sharpen my facilitator and (retrospective) teaching skills. \nUpdate: One spot available for RFG 2018\, contact me if you are interested!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/retrospective-facilitators-gathering-2018/
LOCATION:Netherlands\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Workshop Delivering Value with Agile in Amsterdam
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to apply agile practices throughout your organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster\, increase quality\, and improve organizational agility with happy high-performing teams in Amsterdam on March 20-21\, 2018! \nMany teams are adopting an agile way of working hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. The organizations are going through agile transformations\, implementing Scrum or Kanban and using large-scale agile frameworks like Lean\, SAFe\, LeSS or DAD. Unfortunately\, those transformations do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. \nIf your teams are \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\nor if 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! \nApplying agile to make it work for your teams and improving organizational agility isn’t easy. But it can be done! \nThis workshop consists of two days of intensive training and exercises\, loaded with examples and suggestions to help you become more agile and lean. The first day focuses on applying agile practices in teams where the second day dives into organizational-wide agility. Both days can also be attended individually. \nMaking Agile Work for You (Day 1)\nOn day one 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\nWhat will you get out of the first day: \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\nImproving Organizational Agility (Day 2)\nOn day two you will learn 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\nWhat will you get out of the second day: \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 throughout the organization\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAgile Consultants and Change Managers\n(Senior) Developers and Tester\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\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. \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 \nMore information\nThe price for this two-day workshop is €1000\,- excl. VAT. It is also possible to attend only the first or second day\, the price for one day is €550\,- excl. VAT \nIncluded: \n\nFull day workshops\nLunch\nMaterials\nFree Lifetime Support\n\nThis workshop is done in collaboration with Trifork Amsterdam. Trifork is a leading full service supplier of high-quality custom-built applications and end-to-end solutions\, and organizer of the GOTO conferences: the enterprise software development conference designed for team leads\, architects\, and project management organized by developers\, for developers. \nNote: This workshop will be given in English\, except when all attendees have a profound understanding of Dutch and agree that the workshop will be given in Dutch. All workshop materials are in English. \nUnable to come to Amsterdam? This workshop is also provided in other cities: \n\nDelivering Value with Agile in London on March 8-9\nDelivering Value with Agile in Madrid on April 23-24\n\nRegistration\nCurrently you can only buy the two-day workshop in my webshop. Contact me if you want to attend only on the first or second day. \n\n\n \n\n\n\nName* \nAddress* \nPostal Code* \nCity* \nCountry* \nEmail* \nTelephone* \nPayment info (e.g. company name\, PO number) – added to invoice \nWhat do you expect to learn \nI have read and agree to conditions & cancellation policy (see below)*YesNo \n \n\n\n\n\n\n€1\,000.00 \nQuantity\n\n\nAdd to cart \n\nConditions and cancellation policy\n– The workshop has to be paid in full before the workshop date.\n– Cancellation by the attendee is only allowed until one month before the workshop date.\n– If you cannot attend then a colleague can come instead (please inform me).\n– The workshop can be canceled by the organizer\, will be fully refunded. \nWhen you sign up and buy the workshop in this webshop you agree with these conditions \nIf you want to know more about this workshop or any other workshops or training sessions\, feel free to contact me. \n +31 6 2901 3863\n info@benlinders.com\n Ben Linders
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-delivering-value-with-agile-in-amsterdam/
LOCATION:Trifork Amsterdam\, Rijnsburgstraat 9-11\, Amsterdam\, 1059 AT\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Improve Organizational Agility,Making Agile Work,Netherlands,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180308
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180310
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
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SUMMARY:Workshop Delivering Value with Agile in London
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to apply agile practices throughout your organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster\, increase quality\, and improve organizational agility with happy high-performing teams in London on March 8-9\, 2018! \nMany teams are adopting an agile way of working hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. The organizations are going through agile transformations\, implementing Scrum or Kanban and using large-scale agile frameworks like Lean\, SAFe\, LeSS or DAD. Unfortunately\, those transformations do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. \nIf your teams are \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\nor if 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! \nApplying agile to make it work for your teams and improving organizational agility isn’t easy. But it can be done! \nThis workshop consists of two days of intensive training and exercises\, loaded with examples and suggestions to help you become more agile and lean. The first day focuses on applying agile practices in teams where the second day dives into organizational-wide agility. Both days can also be attended individually. \nMaking Agile Work for You (Day 1)\nOn day one 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\nWhat will you get out of the first day: \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\nImproving Organizational Agility (Day 2)\nOn day two you will learn 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\nWhat will you get out of the second day: \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 throughout the organization\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAgile Consultants and Change Managers\n(Senior) Developers and Tester\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\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. \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 \nMore information\nThe price for this two-day workshop is GBP 1150 excl. VAT. It is also possible to attend only the first or second day\, the price for one day is GBP 600 excl. VAT \nIncluded: \n\nFull day workshops\nLunch\nMaterials\nFree Lifetime Support\n\nThis workshop is done in collaboration with Trifork London / GOTO Academy. Trifork is a leading full service supplier of high-quality custom-built applications and end-to-end solutions\, and organizer of the GOTO conferences: the enterprise software development conference designed for team leads\, architects\, and project management organized by developers\, for developers. \nRegistration\nUse these links to register for this workshop: \n\nFull two-day workshop Delivering Value with Agile on March 8-9 (GBP 1150)\nFirst day only workshop Making Agile Work for You on March 8 (GBP 600)\nSecond day only workshop Improving Organizational Agility on March 9 (GBP 600)\n\nUnable to come to London? This workshop is also provided in other cities: \n\nDelivering Value with Agile in Amsterdam on March 20-21\nDelivering Value with Agile in Madrid on April 23-24\n\nIf you want to know more about this workshop or any other workshops or training sessions\, feel free to contact me. \n +31 6 2901 3863\n info@benlinders.com\n Ben Linders
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-delivering-value-agile-london/
LOCATION:London (TBA)\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Improve Organizational Agility,Making Agile Work,UK,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180308
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
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SUMMARY:QCon London 2018
DESCRIPTION:QCon is a community-driven international software conference with over 140 speakers and hundreds of influential\, inspiring attendees and speakers who are bringing new ideas\, driving innovation\, and adopting new technology inside their companies. QCon features independent and unbiased content\, techniques\, and technologies that drive software development forward. Participating in QCon will give direct access to cases and practical experience in technologies. \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. \nI will be covering the event as editor for Agile Culture and Methods on InfoQ.com
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/qcon-london-2018/
LOCATION:Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre\, Broad Sanctuary\, Westminster\, London\, England\, SW1P 3EE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference,UK
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180215
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20180106T233149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T172628Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Amsterdam
DESCRIPTION:Learn new exercises for your agile retrospectives\, find out how to create a safe environment\, and improve your facilitation skills in the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Amsterdam on February 14\, 2018! \nAgile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting at the end of each iteration to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions in the next iteration. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams you will practice exercises for facilitating retrospectives in teams. \nA great way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participating in retrospectives. In this workshop you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to facilitate retrospectives. You will learn the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring to your team. \nWho should attend this workshop\nTwo important conditions to make retrospectives valuable are to have clear goals (why do you do retrospectives) and experienced facilitators (Scrum Masters and/or Agile Coaches). \nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nIn this workshop\, you will design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to become more agile and lean. \nRetrospective exercises\nIn this interactive workshop\, you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them uses a different kind of retrospective. We will choose from several retrospective exercises\, like: \n\nSetting your Agile Course with the Sail Boat Futurespective\nDealing with feelings in teams\nGetting Feedback with the Perfection Game \nMany Faces of Jack Sparrow\nConstellation\n…\n\nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives\n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run retrospectives\nSkills for facilitating retrospectives\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nApply and Improve\nIn this workshop\, you will learn how to adopt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to provide retrospective facilitators with a toolbox with retrospective exercises enabling them to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization! \nTestimonials\n“The workshop presented in a clear way why retrospectives are the driving force to an organization which wants to improve. Using some playful exercises I learned several easy ways to extract the current status of the team and how to decide which should be the next steps to address potential problems and risks” \nNikolaos Raptis – Scrum Master – Software Developer at Scytl Secure Electronic Voting \n“Nice to join a workshop in which the attendees and teacher actually have profound hands-on experience with agile.”\n“Immersive\, good choice of subjects\, well led.”\n“A lot of examples.”\n“Good useful interactions and learning from other participants.” \nAttendees from a GOTO Amsterdam workshop \n“I got a better understanding of retrospectives and many ideas on how to use them in my work. I can suggest this workshop to anyone that wants to go agile.  Also thanks for the reading material\, I found it very helpful.” \nBill Souliotis – Manager Software Research & Development Graphics User Interface at BETA CAE Systems \n“After working together for many years\, our team (myself included) grew out of the need for formal retrospectives. This workshop helped to get some fresh ideas that can refuel our retros and stressed some key points about the necessity and importance of facilitation in these events.” \nYorgos Saslis – Solution Design Executive at CytechMobile.com \n“I’d like to thank you again for your excellent workshop. It was fun and I already started using some of the ideas with my team. The change is definitely notable.” \nLiran Ben-Porat\, qSpark LTD \n“Thanks once again for a wonderful workshop! We have a lot of useful outputs which we are going to implement. And thanks for the free copy of your book about the retrospectives\, now we are able to go through the topics once again and do the exercises in our company.” \nJakub Grós\, Project Engineer at Honeywell \n“I found the workshop very useful. We’ve already started to experiment with some action items we gave ourselves in the workshop\, doing changes in our overall retrospective approach. We are also trying out cross facilitation\, having our retrospectives facilitated by a Scrum master of another team.” \nSimona Humpolová\, Scrum master at EmbedIT \nI have taken some of my Scrum masters to Ben’s retrospective training. I like the training very much\, and also his website which contains many retro techniques. I still use this as a reference when I coach people. \nZoltán Ludányi\, Agile Software Development Consultant \nMore information\nPrice: €550\,- excl. VAT \nIncluded: \n\nFull day workshop\nLunch\nMaterials\nFree ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives or translated edition\nFree Lifetime Support\n\nThis workshop is done in collaboration with Trifork Amsterdam. Trifork is a leading full service supplier of high-quality custom-built applications and end-to-end solutions\, and organizer of the GOTO conferences: the enterprise software development conference designed for team leads\, architects\, and project management organized by developers\, for developers. \nNote: This workshop will be given in English\, except when all attendees have a profound understanding of Dutch and agree that the workshop will be given in Dutch. All workshop materials are in English. \nRegistration\n\n\n \n\n\n\nName* \nAddress*\n \nPostal Code*\n \nCity* \nCountry*\n \nEmail* \nTelephone*\n \nPayment info (e.g. company name\, PO number) – added to invoice\n \nWhat do you expect to learn\n \nI have read and agree to conditions & cancellation policy (see below)*Yes\nNo\n \n\n\n\n\n€550\nQuantity\n\n\nAdd to cart \n\nConditions and cancellation policy\n– The workshop has to be paid in full before the workshop date.\n– Cancellation by the attendee is only allowed until one month before the workshop date.\n– If you cannot attend then a colleague can come instead (please inform me).\n– The workshop can be canceled by the organizer\, will be fully refunded. \nWhen you sign up and buy the workshop in this webshop you agree with these conditions \nIf you want to know more about this workshop or any other workshops or training sessions\, feel free to contact me. \n +31 6 2901 3863\n info@benlinders.com\n Ben Linders
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-teams-amsterdam/
LOCATION:Trifork Amsterdam\, Rijnsburgstraat 9-11\, Amsterdam\, 1059 AT\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Netherlands,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180207
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
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SUMMARY:World Retrospective Day 2018
DESCRIPTION:Follow the Sun as we Retrospect Around the World\nOur vision is to promote continuous improvement throughout the world by encouraging the adoption of retrospectives\, by increasing the utility of retrospectives for people\, teams\, and organizations\, and by sharing new ideas and insights with each other. \nSpecial discount for #worldRetroDay: Agile Retrospective books with 50% off!\n \nAs of today (February 6) 69 events all around the world have been announced. For more information and world-wide events\, see worldretrospectiveday.com/ \nEvent in the Netherlands\nThere’s one event planned in the Netherlands\, Agile serious games for retrospectives\, which will be held at Xebia in Hilversum: \nAs we are players\, we definitely will play. This evening we’ll try out several games appropriate for retrospectives – with teams\, management or yourself. \nI will play the Agile Self-assessment Game at the official Dutch #WorldRetroDay event. \nJoin me and thousands of people all around the world at one the local events of World Retrospective Day! \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/world-retrospective-day-2018/
LOCATION:Xebia Hilversum\, Laapersveld 27\, Hilversum\, 1213 VB\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia,China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Israel,Lebanon,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Spain,Sweden,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,US
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180203
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
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SUMMARY:Increasing Agility with Retrospectives in Istanbul
DESCRIPTION: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 find out how you can introduce and improve retrospectives in the workshop Increasing Agility with Retrospectives in Istanbul on February 2\, 2018! \nAdopting agile often doesn’t go as smoothly as expected in an organization. Becoming agile is a learning process which requires that you reflect regularly and adopt your way of working. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nThe workshop Increasing Organizational Agility with Retrospectives provides solutions for reflection and improvement across projects and organizations\, and explores how retrospectives can be used for successful agile adoption at all levels in the organization to increase agility. \nYou will also learn to do agile self-assessments and readiness checks and to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to increase their agility. \nScaling Agile Retrospectives\nAgile retrospectives are mostly known as a technique for a team to reflect and learn at the end of each iteration. 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 from a project\, product or organization. Explore ways how retrospectives can be used to share learnings and align the way of working in the whole organization. \nIncreasing your agility\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 you can introduce and improving retrospectives in your organization. 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 and become more agile and lean. \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives\n• How to scale retrospectives in the organization over multiple teams\n• Understanding how retrospectives can be used to do continuous improvement and improve organizational agility\n• Establishing pre-requirements for effective retrospectives in the organization\n• Advanced facilitation skills for doing effective and efficient retrospectives\n• Approaches to improve the usage and results of retrospectives \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 \nAttendant should have basic knowledge about agile retrospectives and some experience with facilitating retrospectives. You can attend the Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams on February 1 in Istanbul to learn how to facilitate effective retrospectives. \nAttendees of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nSign up\nI give this workshop in collaboration with Agile Mentor Academy\, a training provider for agile coaches\, teams\, and experts. Please sign up here.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/increasing-agility-retrospectives-istanbul/
LOCATION:Agile Mentor Academy\, Istanbul\, Turkey
CATEGORIES:Retrospectives Agility,Turkey,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Agile Mentor Academy":MAILTO:info@agilementoracademy.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180202
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20180108T153535Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Istanbul
DESCRIPTION:Learn new exercises for your agile retrospectives\, find out how to create a safe environment\, and improve your facilitation skills in the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Istanbul on February 1\, 2018! \nAgile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting at the end of each iteration to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions in the next iteration. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams you will practice exercises for facilitating retrospectives in teams. \nA great way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participating in retrospectives. In this workshop you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to facilitate retrospectives. You will learn the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring for your team. \nWho should attend this workshop\nThis workshop is intended for:\n• Retrospective facilitators\n• Agile coaches\n• Scrum masters\n• Team\, product or project managers\n• Anybody involved in retrospectives \nIn this workshop\, you will design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to become more agile and lean. \nRetrospective exercises\nIn this interactive workshop\, you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them uses a different kind of retrospective. \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives\n• Understanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\n• Practice different retrospective exercises\n• Know how to create a safe environment to run retrospectives\n• Skills for facilitating retrospectives \nAttendees of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nApply and Improve\nIn this workshop you will learn how to adopt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to provide retrospective facilitators with a toolbox with retrospective exercises enabling them to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization! \nDo you want to improve retrospectives at a project or  release level\, remote retrospectives\, or use retrospectives to drive continuous improvement? Then I recommend my workshop Increasing Agility with Retrospectives on February 2 in Istanbul. \nSign up\nI give this workshop in collaboration with Agile Mentor Academy\, a training provider for agile coaches\, teams\, and experts. Please sign up here.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-teams-istanbul-feb-1/
LOCATION:Agile Mentor Academy\, Istanbul\, Turkey
CATEGORIES:Retrospectives Teams,Turkey,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180126
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20180115T135604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200208T093716Z
UID:26056-1516838400-1516924799@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Agile Showcase Amsterdam - Agile Self-assessment Game
DESCRIPTION:I’m giving a mini-workshop at the Agile Showcase Amsterdam where I will play the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMini-workshop: The Agile Self-Assessment Game\nThe Agile Self-Assessment Game can be used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing the game enables teams to reflect on their own team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. Agile coaches use self-assessments in agile transformations to guide teams and help them learn about agile to find their way. \nAttendees can play the card game in teams in this mini-workshop. There will be several playing suggestions available to explore how teams can self-assess their agility and decide on the next steps in their agile journey. \nThe teams will be using cards from the basic game and from expansion packs like DevOps and Business Agility. \nWith this game teams can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nWorkshops in Amsterdam\nIn februari en maart geef ik twee workshop in Amsterdam\, in samenwerking met Trifork. \nWorkshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams \n \nLearn new exercises for your agile retrospectives\, find out how to create a safe environment\, and improve your facilitation skills in the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Amsterdam on February 14\, 2018! More information \nWorkshop Delivering Value with Agile \n \nLearn how to apply agile practices throughout your organization to develop the right products\, deliver faster\, increase quality\, and improve organizational agility with happy high-performing teams in Amsterdam on March 20-21\, 2018! More information \nNeem contact met mij op voor workshops bij jou in de buurt of in-company training! \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-showcase-amsterdam-agile-self-assessment-game/
LOCATION:Mercure Hotel Amsterdam City\, Joan Muyskenweg 10\, Amsterdam\, 1096CJ\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Conference,Netherlands,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171202
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170612T194216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T230634Z
UID:16331-1512000000-1512172799@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:XP Days Benelux 2017
DESCRIPTION:XP Days is a two day conference on agile software development for and by practitioners. \nI have submitted a session about the Agile Self-assessment game to XP Days Benelux 2017. \nXP Days Benelux is one of my favorite conferences. There’s an outstanding program year after year. The atmosphere is great\, attendants are eager to share their experiences and learn from each other. Attendance is limited to 150 people which makes it easy to network with people\, even for introverts. \nXP Days Benelux is the only conference that I know that allows presenters to continuously improve the details of their proposals. For instance when they develop new insights for their talks or workshop\, or based on feedback that they get from other participants and the organizers. In return they ask to help other participants improve their session. The conference uses a Perfection Game exercise for giving constructive and useful feedbac LPk.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/xp-days-benelux-2017/
LOCATION:Elewijt Center\, Tervuursesteenweg 564\, Elewijt-Zemst\,\, 1982\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Belgium,Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171201
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170806T203712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200222T114850Z
UID:17464-1511913600-1512086399@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Impediment Game at Lean Kanban France 2017
DESCRIPTION:I will be playing the impediment game at Lean Kanban France 2017. Also doing a full day workshop on November 28: Getting More out of Agile and Lean. \nIf you want to become agile and lean\, teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. The Impediments Game teaches you to recognize and analyze impediment and to take appropriate action by deploying agile and lean good practices. \nImpediment Game\nIn this game\, you will become a team which has been working together for a couple of iterations. The game can be played by 1-4 teams simultaneously. Each team will have Scrum master and a Product Owner. \nThe game consists of a deck of impediment cards\, a list of agile and lean good practices\, and an impediment board. This game has Lean/Kanban cards and supports Lean/Kanban thinking to solve problems. \nDuring the game\, the teams will be coached in understanding impediments and selecting and deploying good practices to take action. \nBenefits for attendees : \n\nrecognize impediments and understand how they can hinder the team\ndeploy agile and lean practices to deal with them\nlearn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/impediment-game-lean-kanban-france-2017/
LOCATION:MAS (Maison des Associations)\, 10/18 rue des Terres au Curé\, Paris\, 75013\, France
CATEGORIES:Conference,France,More Agile and Lean,Problem Solving
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171129
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170927T162653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T093913Z
UID:23415-1511827200-1511913599@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Getting More out of Agile and Lean in Paris
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in learning practices for teams and their stakeholders to develop the right products\, deliver faster\, increase quality\, and create happy high performing teams?\nMany organizations are going through agile transformations. They are implementing Scrum and maybe large scale agile frameworks like SAFe\, LeSS or DAD\, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. \nUnfortunately those transformation do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering faster\, better products that customers really like or reducing the IT costs. As a result\, many organizations are not getting the expected business benefits out of Agile. \nReplacing processes doesn’t make an organization Agile. You need to apply agile or lean practices\, with an agile mindset. Be able to pick those practices that help your teams and stakeholders to do a better job. Practices that you can use in the planning game and your daily stand-ups with your Scrum and Kanban boards\, for your product reviews/demos and in your agile retrospectives. \nGetting more out of Agile and Lean\nIn this workshop you will experience agile and lean practices for teams and stakeholders with advice on how to deploy them\, and tips and tricks to become more agile and lean. \nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\n(Senior) Developers and Tester\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody involved 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 create happy high performing teams. \nWhat will you get out of this workshop\n\nPractice working with Agile and Scrum/Kanban: planning\, daily stand-ups\, product reviews and retrospectives\nFind out how to deal effectively with impediments\nLearn how to assess your agility and travel your agile journey\nGet ideas for improving collaboration and communication in teams and between teams and stakeholders\nLearn tips and tricks to improve your agile way of working\nGet advice on selecting and applying agile and lean practices effectively
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-getting-more-out-of-agile-and-lean-in-paris/
LOCATION:Paris\, Eifeltower\, Paris\, France
CATEGORIES:France,More Agile and Lean,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171125
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170802T093133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T094228Z
UID:17408-1511481600-1511567999@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Istanbul
DESCRIPTION:Agile Retrospectives are essential for agile teams to continuously improve themselves. Retrospective facilitators need a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the right skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams  in Istanbul on November 24 you will try out different retrospective exercises and learn how to effectively facilitate retrospectives in agile teams. \nThe best way to learn how to do retrospectives is through experience: doing them yourself and participate in retrospectives. In this workshop you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox. You will learn the “why” and “how” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring for your teams. \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives: \n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run a retrospectives\nSkills for effectively facilitating retrospectives\n\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nScrum masters and other team members\nAgile coaches\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-teams-istanbul-2/
LOCATION:Agile Mentor Academy\, Istanbul\, Turkey
CATEGORIES:Retrospectives Teams,Turkey,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171115
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170928T205907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200208T093946Z
UID:23468-1510531200-1510703999@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Playing the Agile Self-assessment Game at Agile Tour Lille
DESCRIPTION:For several years\, the Agile Tour has been a way for enthusiasts of Agile to spread the word about Agile practices and to share their experiences\, both good and bad\, within their local community. Agile Tour is a series of non-profit events over several cities throughout October and December. \nAgile Tour Lille\nComme chaque année l’agile tour arrive à Lille. Cet événement unique en son genre alliant convivialité et proximité a été apprécié et vivement plébiscité pour qu’il soit reconduit une nouvelle année. Face à cet engouement\, aux encouragements et à l’envie de se manifester localement\, nous organisons l’Agile Tour 2017 à Lille pour amplifier cette nouvelle forme de communication qui montrera à quel point les agilistes sont capables de se mobiliser pour changer leur manière de travailler. \nAgile Self-assessments\nI will play the Agile Self-assessment Game at Agile Tour Lille: \nThere isn’t a standard route to become agile\, you have to find your own way. Methods and frameworks don’t tell you how to increase your agility. The Agile Self-Assessment Game is an ‘agile map’ that inspires you with ideas and suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. Come play the Agile Self-Assessment Game in teams to discover how agile you are and what you can do to increase your agility.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/playing-agile-self-assessment-game-agile-tour-lille/
LOCATION:Inter-Hotel Ascotel Lille\, 7 Avenue Paul Langevin\, Lille\, 59650\, France
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Conference,France
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171103
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170609T055135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190325T073800Z
UID:16139-1509580800-1509667199@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Agile Consortium Netherlands 2017 conference
DESCRIPTION:The Agile Consortium Netherlands organizes a full day conference on November 2. \n2017 theme: is “The Power of Paradox as a driver for organizational change”: \nJust like last year we have a whole day with inspiring speakers\, fun and useful workshops\, results from working groups on leadership\, HR\, DevOps and keynote speakers on these subjects. Among the confirmed speakers are Jutta Eckstein and Fabiola Eyholzer. Also known speakers of the agile master community are present. \nWhat to expect?\nThere are four rounds in five tracks: Leadership\, HR\, Agile vision\, a masters and an unconference track.  The closing plenary session\, after dinner\,  is agile music. Knowledge sharing at its best with enough space for networking. More details on the program will follow. \nI will be covering the Agile Consortium Netherlands 2017 conference for InfoQ.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-consortium-2017-conference/
LOCATION:Cultuur en Congrescentrum Antropia\, Hoofdstraat 8\, Driebergen\, 3972LA\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Netherlands
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171024
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20171020T115028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T115028Z
UID:23907-1508716800-1508803199@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Agile People Sweden 2017
DESCRIPTION:I’m attending Agile People Sweden\, covering the sessions for InfoQ. \nFrom the conference website: \nThere is a shift happening in the world of work. Organizations are becoming more inspiring\, human and purposeful. Organizations that are fit for humans and the future. Business are becoming a force for good. Peoples potential is freed up to have a positive impact in people’s lives\, community and the world. \nOur purpose is to accelerate this transformation through spreading the agile values of customer collaboration\, energized people\, learning organization\, inspiring leadership and rapid change to all areas of business and organizations. \nThis is the 5th year consecutive conference. We take pride in being in the front line of organizational change. Join us to learn about the latest trends. We attract a fantastic audience of people from all types of business representing a diverse set of roles such as managers\, IT professionals\, HR managers and many others. It is the cross learning and collaboration that happens when we meet across functions that enable new solutions. \nWe attract thought leaders and inspiring speakers from many different organizations talking about the future of work. The conference format is also diverse. We mix key-note speakers\, with lightning talks\, with open space\, world café\, workshops and plenty of opportunities for mingling while enjoying our own Agile Ale. See you at Teaterskeppet on October 23!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-people-sweden-2017/
LOCATION:Teaterskeppet\, Skeppsbrokajen 104\, Stockholm\, 111 30\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Conference,Sweden
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171022
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170809T092009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200209T211302Z
UID:17526-1508544000-1508630399@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Dealing Effectively with Impediments at Bosnia Agile Day 2017
DESCRIPTION:Bosnia Agile Day is a one-day event that brings world-wide Agile Evangelists\, leading Agile experts\, practitioners and innovators together to share their experiences\, expertise\, enthusiasm and knowledge. \nMini-workshop: Dealing Effectively with Impediments\nIf you want to become agile and lean\, teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. The Agile Impediments Game teaches you to recognize and analyze impediment and to take appropriate action by deploying agile and lean good practices. \nIn this game\, you will become a team which has been working together for a couple of iterations. The game can be played by 1-4 teams simultaneously. Each team will have Scrum master and a Product Owner. \nThe game consists of a deck of impediment cards\, a list of agile and lean good practices\, and an impediment board. During the game\, the teams will be coached in understanding impediments and selecting and deploying good practices to take action. \nBenefits for attendees : \n\nrecognize impediments and understand how they can hinder the team\ndeploy agile and lean practices to deal with them\nlearn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/dealing-effectively-impediments-bosnia-agile-day-2017/
CATEGORIES:Bosnia,Conference,More Agile and Lean,Problem Solving,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171017
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171019
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170812T145348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171231T133148Z
UID:22577-1508198400-1508371199@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Getting More out of Agile and Lean in London
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in learning practices for teams and their stakeholders to develop the right products\, deliver faster\, increase quality\, and create happy high performing teams? Come to my workshop Getting More out of Agile and Lean in London. \nMany organizations are going through agile transformations. They are implementing Scrum and maybe large scale agile frameworks like SAFe\, LeSS or DAD\, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. \nUnfortunately those transformation do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering faster\, better products that customers really like or reducing the IT costs. As a result\, many organizations are not getting the expected business benefits out of Agile. \nReplacing processes doesn’t make an organization Agile. You need to apply agile or lean practices\, with an agile mindset. Be able to pick those practices that help your teams and stakeholders to do a better job. Practices that you can use in the planning game and your daily stand-ups with your Scrum and Kanban boards\, for your product reviews/demos and in your agile retrospectives. \nGETTING MORE OUT OF AGILE AND LEAN\nRegistration for this workshop has started\, contact me for a discount code :-). \nIn this workshop you will experience agile and lean practices for teams and stakeholders with advice on how to deploy them\, and tips and tricks to become more agile and lean. \nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nTechical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\n(Senior) Developers and Tester\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody involved 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 create happy high performing teams. \nWHAT WILL YOU GET OUT OF THIS WORKSHOP\n\nPractice working with Agile and Scrum/Kanban: planning\, daily stand-ups\, product reviews and retrospectives\nFind out how to deal effectively with impediments\nLearn how to assess your agility and travel your agile journey\nGet ideas for improving collaboration and communication in teams and between teams and stakeholders\nLearn tips and tricks to improve your agile way of working\nGet advice on selecting and applying agile and lean practices effectively\n\nPRACTICAL INFORMATION\nThis workshop can also be given as in-house workshop\, tailored to the specific situation and needs of your company. \nDuration: 2 days \nTRAINER: BEN LINDERS\n \nBen Linders has a broad international experience\, specializing in agile\, lean\, quality\, continuous improvement and organizational development. Team worker\, driven\, supportive\, and pragmatic. Committed to quality business results on time\, continuous improvement & development of professionals. \nBen Linders has done assignments on Quality\, Agile\, Lean\, Continuous Improvement and Organizational Development using Scrum\, Retrospectives\, CMMI\, Root Cause Analysis\, Six Sigma\, Kanban\, People CMM\, Prince-2\, ISO 9001\, EFQM\, etc. Trainer\, Team Coach and People Developer. Clients in R&D\, Banking & Insurance\, Consultancy\, Telecom\, Government\, Healthcare\, Embedded Software.*\nDETAILS\n\nAddress London\nDate: October 17-18\, 2017\nDuration: 2 days. All days 9:00 to 17:00\nPrice: 1’150 GBP incl. VAT and meals\nDiscounts: Group discount 3+: 10%\, 6+ 15%\nPayment: Card payment online or invoice option.\nRegistration: Sign up here or write an email to mto@trifork.com. You will receive an invoice and a confirmation after registering. \n\nCANCELLATION POLICY \nWe do not provide any refunds. What happens in case you cannot attend the course?\n1) You are welcome to pass on the place to a colleague or\n2) You are welcome to attend a later course in our course calendar.\nFurther\, once a registration has been made and the confirmation email has been sent out\, the price is set and can not be changed or adjusted. \nThis workshop is done in collaboration with GOTO Academy by Trifork
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-getting-more-out-of-agile-and-lean-in-london/
LOCATION:London (TBA)\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Making Agile Work,More Agile and Lean,UK,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171010
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171012
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170908T070525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170908T072431Z
UID:23255-1507593600-1507766399@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Making Team Working Work at Agile by Example 2017
DESCRIPTION:Agile by Example\nAgileByExample has been organised since 2011. It all started with 125 agilists in a small Warsaw music club. Since then\, each year ABE was growing. \nThe key trademark of ABE is the “by example” theme—the conference provides case studies and experience reports of real world struggles with adopting agile methods and techniques. Beside that ABE is known for the audio/video quality (organized in cinema rooms with huge screens and superb sound systems) and top-notch organization. \nContact me for a discount to attend Agile by Example! \nMaking Team Working Work.\nPeople like working in teams. That is\, if there’s a good environment and culture where people can actually work together and feel valued. Then you can have great teams.\nCreating the right conditions and environment that enables people to work together in teams can be hard work. But it’s important\, as collaboration and teamwork are essential to make agile work to deliver value.\nThis talk will show how you can self-assess how your team is performing and provide you with ideas to improve collaboration and teamwork to increase the agility of your team.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/making-team-working-work-agile-example-2017/
LOCATION:Multikino Złote Tarasy\, Złota 59\, Warsaw\, 00-120\, Poland
CATEGORIES:Conference,Poland
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171010
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170908T072414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200303T194023Z
UID:23265-1507507200-1507593599@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Increasing your Agility at Agile by Example 2017
DESCRIPTION:Agile by Example\nAgileByExample has been organised since 2011. It all started with 125 agilists in a small Warsaw music club. Since then\, each year ABE was growing. \nThe key trademark of ABE is the “by example” theme—the conference provides case studies and experience reports of real world struggles with adopting agile methods and techniques. Beside that ABE is known for the audio/video quality (organized in cinema rooms with huge screens and superb sound systems) and top-notch organization. \nContact me for a discount to attend Agile by Example! \nWorkshop Increasing your Agility\nI’m doing a 1/2 day Dojo – seats are limited. \nThere isn’t a standard route to become agile\, you have to find your own way. Methods and frameworks don’t tell you how to increase your agility.\nThe Agile Self-Assessment Game is an “agile map”. You will play the game to find out how agile you are and get inspired with ideas and suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey.\nThe Backpacking Retrospective Exercise can be used to visualize your path to agility and decide what you will take along on their journey. Doing this exercise helps you to decide upon the vital few actions that are needed now to prepare and continue your agile journey.\nCome play the Agile Self-Assessment Game and the Backpacking Retrospective Exercise in teams to discover how agile you are and what you need to pack to increase your agility.\nPlayers will receive a link to download the card game and retrospective exercise so that they can play them in their own organization (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 License).
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-increasing-agility-agile-example-2017/
LOCATION:Centrum Konferencyjne Zielna\, Zielna 37B\, Warsaw\, 00-108\, Poland
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Making Agile Work,More Agile and Lean,Poland,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171004
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171007
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170803T082404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200208T094025Z
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SUMMARY:Playing the Agile Self-Assessment Game at Lean Agile Scotland 2017
DESCRIPTION:I will be playing the Agile Self-assessment Game with teams at Lean Agile Scotland in a 90 minute mini-workshop: \nBecoming agile is a journey\, and it can be a difficult one. The Agile Self-Assessment Game is there for you to see how agile you are – and 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?”. \nCome play the Agile Self-Assessment Game in teams to discover how agile you are – and what you can do to increase your agility. \nPlayers will receive a link to download the card game so that they can play it in their own organisations (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 License). \nI designed this game based on my experience with coaching teams\, and my background in organisational development and assessments. \n \nAgile Self-assessment Game\nThe Agile Self-Assessment Game can be used by teams and organizations to self assess their agility. Playing the game enables teams to reflect on their own 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. \n  \nInfoQ\nI will also be covering sessions from Lean Agile Scotland on InfoQ.com.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/playing-agile-self-assessment-game-lean-agile-scotland-2017/
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,UK,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170930
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170531T134337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170912T123526Z
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SUMMARY:Exercises to spice up your agile retrospective at Agile Cambridge 2017
DESCRIPTION:Valuable agile retrospectives provide the solution for a successful agile adoption at all levels in an organisation. They help teams to reflect and learn how to apply agile practices effectively\, and support managers with ideas to set conditions for their teams to grow and deliver more value. \nIn this mini-workshop you will experience how using different exercises can help you to spice up your agile retrospectives and get more value out of them. I will also explain the why and how of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring you\, and provide tips for improving retrospectives in your teams. \nIn teams\, you will practice exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to experience how to effectively facilitate retrospectives. \nBenefits: \n\nunderstanding the why and how of agile retrospectives\npractising different retrospective exercises\nseeing how to create a safe environment to run a retrospective\npracticing skills for facilitating retrospectives\n\nIntended audience: scrum masters\, agile coaches\, tech leads\, developers\, testers\, product owners\, (senior) managers. \n \nSpicing up your retrospectives\n \nThe Retrospective Exercise Toolbox is a free of charge agile and lean tool that helps you to do Valuable Agile Retrospectives. \nThe book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives from Luis Gonçalves and Ben Linders provides many different retrospective exercises that you can use to design effective retrospectives for continuous sustainable improvement.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/exercises-spice-agile-retrospective-agile-cambridge-2017/
LOCATION:Churchill College\, University of Cambridge Storey's Way\, Cambridge\, CB3 0DS
CATEGORIES:Conference,UK
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170921
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170924
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170612T201641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190325T074314Z
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SUMMARY:Agile Greece Summit 2017 & Workshops in Athens
DESCRIPTION:From the Agile Greece Summit website: \nAgile Greece Summit (AGRS) is an international event/conference gathering world class agile experts. Addressing developers\, team leaders\, managers and executives\, AGRS brings together top class agile speakers and participants from around the world. \nThis year\, we’re honoured to host some of the most significant and influential people of the Agile movement. From the founders of Agile Manifesto to worlds best Agile coaches and practitioners all blended in this “one of a kind” AGRS2017 speaker line up. \nGetting more out of Agile and Lean\nIn conjunction with Agile Greece I’m giving in-house and public workshops in Athens on Getting More out of Agile and Lean in the week when the summit takes place. Contact me if you are interested. \nAre you interested in learning practices for teams and their stakeholders to develop the right products\, deliver faster\, increase quality\, and create happy high performing teams? \nMany organizations are going through agile transformations. They are implementing Scrum and maybe large scale agile frameworks like SAFe\, LeSS or DAD\, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. \nUnfortunately those transformation do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering faster\, better products that customers really like or reducing the IT costs. As a result\, many organizations are not getting the expected business benefits out of Agile. \nReplacing processes doesn’t make an organization Agile. You need to apply agile or lean practices\, with an agile mindset. Be able to pick those practices that help your teams and stakeholders to do a better job. Practices that you can use in the planning game and your daily stand-ups with your Scrum and Kanban boards\, for your product reviews/demos and in your agile retrospectives. \nGet your ticket now \nTarget Audience \nIn this workshop you will experience agile and lean practices for teams and stakeholders with advice on how to deploy them\, and tips and tricks to become more agile and lean. \nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nTechical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\n(Senior) Developers and Tester\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody involved 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 create happy high performing teams. \nWhat will you get out of this workshop \n\nPractice working with Agile and Scrum/Kanban: planning\, daily stand-ups\, product reviews and retrospectives\nFind out how to deal effectively with impediments\nLearn how to assess your agility and travel your agile journey\nGet ideas for improving collaboration and communication in teams and between teams and stakeholders\nLearn tips and tricks to improve your agile way of working\nGet advice on selecting and applying agile and lean practices effectively\n\nThursday\, Sep 21st\, Venue TBA\n09:30 – 17:30 \n€190+ VAT 24% \nCovering for InfoQ\nI spoke at the first Agile Greece Summit in 2015 and attended the Agile Greece Summit in 2016. I have covered all past conferences on InfoQ\, aiming to also cover the 2017 summit. \nI can offer a discount for the Agile Greece Summit\, contact me for details. \nLooking forward to come to Athens again 🙂
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-greece-summit-2017/
LOCATION:Proorismos Papastratos\, Gravias 25\, Pireas\, 185 45\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Conference,Greece,More Agile and Lean,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170601
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170427T154023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T110034Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Istanbul
DESCRIPTION:Agile Retrospectives are essential for agile teams to continuously improve themselves. Retrospective facilitators need a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the right skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams  in Istanbul on May 31 you will try out different retrospective exercises and learn how to effectively facilitate retrospectives in agile teams. \nThe best way to learn how to do retrospectives is through experience: doing them yourself and participate in retrospectives. In this workshop you will practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox. You will learn the “why” and “how” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring for your teams. \nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives: \n\nUnderstanding of the why\, what and how of agile retrospectives\nPractice different retrospective exercises\nKnow how to create a safe environment to run a retrospectives\nSkills for effectively facilitating retrospectives\n\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nScrum masters and other team members\nAgile coaches\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-for-teams-in-istanbul/
LOCATION:Agile Mentor Academy\, Istanbul\, Turkey
CATEGORIES:Retrospectives Teams,Turkey,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170508
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170513
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20161007T100056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T110432Z
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SUMMARY:Retrospective Facilitators Gathering 2017
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, a group of us who are passionate about retrospective facilitation gather to share observations\, grow our skills and work out things that are puzzling us. It’s a small invitation only gathering\, which provides for an opportunity for very focused and high-density learning\, not to mention a bit of fun and interaction with our peers. \nI’m joining the Retrospective Facilitators Gathering (RFG) again in 2017 to learn about new exercises and sharpen my facilitator skills. \nTogether with Luis Gonçalves I wrote the book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives. I will share experiences from the exercises described in the book and many other retrospective exercises and practices for getting actions done and helping organizations to strive towards continuous improvement.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/retrospective-facilitators-gathering-2017/
LOCATION:Race Brook Lodge\, 864 S Undermountain Rd\, Sheffielld\, MA\, 01257\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,US
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170502
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170503
DTSTAMP:20260501T063045
CREATED:20170318T085931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T110631Z
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SUMMARY:Masterclass Improving your Agile and Lean Transformation
DESCRIPTION:In this masterclass you will experience Agile and Lean practices for teams and stakeholders with advice on how to deploy them and integrate them into your existing processes\, and tips and tricks to become more agile and lean.\n \nAgile & Lean Transformation\nMany organizations are going through agile/lean transformations. They are implementing Scrum\, SAFe\, LeSS or DAD\, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. \nUnfortunately those transformation do not always live up to the agile promise of delivering faster\, better products that customers really like or lean promises like reducing waste and lower IT costs. As a result\, many organizations are not getting the expected business benefits out of Agile and Lean. \nReplacing processes doesn’t make an organization Agile. You need to apply agile or lean practices\, with an agile mindset\, to really improve your processes. Be able to pick those practices that help your teams and stakeholders to do a better job. \nThe practices in this workshop will help you to develop the right products for your business and customers\, reduce your delivery time\, get rid of waste\, increase the quality of your software products\, and create happy high performing teams. \nWho should attend\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers (e.g. IT/Product development)\, Technical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\, (Senior) Developers and Tester\, Agile and Lean Coaches\, Anybody involved in agile/lean transformations. \nMain learning outcomes\n\nEffective practices for planning\, daily stand-ups\, product reviews and retrospectives.\nIdeas for improving collaboration in teams and between teams and stakeholders.\nTips and tricks to improve processes for your agile way of working.\nAdvice on selecting and applying agile and lean practices effectively.\n\nThis Project Master Class is given in collaboration with Ad Projectum.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-improving-agile-lean-transformation/
LOCATION:Vilnius\, Vilnius\, Lithuania
CATEGORIES:Lithuania,More Agile and Lean,Workshop
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