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SUMMARY:Masterclass Agile and Lean at Agile Tour Kaunas 2016
DESCRIPTION:In this masterclass in Kaunas\, Lithuania you will experience agile practices for teams and stakeholders with advice on how to deploy them\, and tips and tricks to become more agile and lean. \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. \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. \nWho should attend\n\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\n(Senior) Developers and Testers\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody involved in agile transformations\n\nProgram objectives\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. In this workshop you learn how to apply agile or lean practices\, with an agile mindset\, to become able to pick those practices that help your teams and stakeholders to do a better job. Explore how to use practices in the planning game and your daily stand-ups\, in your daily stand-ups with your Scrum and Kanban boards\, for your product reviews/demos and in your agile retrospectives. \nLearning objectives: \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 your agile way of working\nAdvice on selecting and applying agile and lean practices effectively\n\nAgenda\n\nLearning Goals & Getting to Know Each Other\nBuilding the Right Product\nPractice Exercise: Product Owner & Team\nEffective Collaboration in Teams\nPractice Exercise: Impediment Game\nLearning and Improving\nExercise: Valuable Agile Retrospectives\nQuestions and Wrap up\n\nThis workshop is organized in collaboration with Agile Lithuania. It can be combined with the Masterclass Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams on October 11. \nEarly bird price (till September 1st): 319 Eur (VAT not applicable)
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/masterclass-agile-lean-kaunas-2016/
LOCATION:Kaunas\, Kaunas\, Lithuania
CATEGORIES:Lithuania,Making Agile Work,More Agile and Lean,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161012
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160705T090249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T112819Z
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SUMMARY:Masterclass Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams at Agile Tour Kaunas 2016
DESCRIPTION:In this masterclass in Kaunas\, Lithuania you will practice different exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives\, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring you. \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. This masterclass provides a toolbox of retrospective exercises and teaches the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \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. \nWho should attend\n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nProgram objectives\nThe best way to learn retrospectives is through experience by doing them yourself and participating in retrospectives. In this interactive workshop you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them uses a different kind of retrospective. \nYou 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! \nLearning objectives: \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 facilitating retrospectives\n\nMasterclasses by Ben Linders are highly interactive. You practice many exercises\, questions are taken when the arise and you learn both from the trainer and other attendees through sharing experiences. \nAgenda\n\nLearning Goals & Getting to Know Each Other\n“Why”\, “What” and “How” of Retrospectives\nPractice Exercise 1\nFacilitating Retrospectives\nPractice Exercise 2\nGetting Retrospective Actions Done\nPractice Exercise 3\nDesigning Valuable Retrospectives\nPractice Exercise 4\nQuestions and Wrap up\n\nThis workshop is organized in collaboration with Agile Lithuania. It can be combined with the Masterclass Getting More out of Agile and Lean on October 12. \nEarly bird price (till September 1st): 319 Eur (VAT not applicable)
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/masterclass-agile-retrospectives-kaunas/
LOCATION:Kaunas\, Kaunas\, Lithuania
CATEGORIES:Lithuania,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160928
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160929
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160810T084304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T112900Z
UID:10997-1475020800-1475107199@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Agile and Software Architecture Symposium 2016
DESCRIPTION:The Agile and Software Architecture Symposium 2016 (ASAS) is a practical solutions driven conference\, where technical leads\, software architects\, business analysts and engineering directors can learn about and discuss better ways to deliver the software solutions that are right for their users. \nI will be covering the fifth ASAS event for InfoQ.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-software-architecture-symposium-2016/
LOCATION:GelreDome\, Batavierenweg 25\, Arnhem\, 6841 HN\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20160921T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20160921T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160710T090718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220824T083254Z
UID:10924-1474477200-1474491600@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Meetup: Oefeningen voor waardevolle agile retrospectives
DESCRIPTION:AgileHubNoord heeft mij uitgenodigd om in hun meetup op 21 september een mini-workshop te geven over agile retrospectives: \n\nRetrospectives helpen je om agile effectief toe te passen continu te verbeteren. Je pakt ermee problemen aan en zorgt voor een goede werksfeer in je teams. Scrum masters en Agile coaches halen  meer uit teams met behulp van een toolbox met retrospective oefeningen. \nIn deze mini-workshop geeft Ben Linders\, auteur van het boek Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\, een introductie van de “waarom” en “wat” van retrospectives. Je oefent verschillende manieren om retrospectives te doen en krijgt tips en adviezen voor het introduceren en verbeteren van retrospectives. \n\nAgileHubNoord is een onafhankelijke netwerkorganisatie die als doel heeft om Agile-professionals uit Noord-Nederland met elkaar te verbinden\, kennis met elkaar te delen en om het Agile-gedachtegoed onder de aandacht te brengen. Dit doen we door periodiek bijeenkomsten en seminars te organiseren met onderwerpen voor een zo breed mogelijk publiek. Deze bijeenkomsten zijn voor iedereen toegankelijk. \nIn deze mini-workshop gebruik ik oefeningen uit mijn workshop Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives. Deze workshop geef ik zowel via open inschrijving als in-house\, aangepast aan de specifieke wensen van jou bedrijf en situatie.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/meetup-oefeningen-voor-waardevolle-agile-retrospectives/
LOCATION:gemeente Groningen\, Harm Buterplein 1\, Groningen\, 9723ZR\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Netherlands,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160918
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160527T074359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171231T145902Z
UID:10638-1474070400-1474156799@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Getting More out of Agile and Lean at Agile Greece Summit 2016
DESCRIPTION:The practices in the workshop Getting More out of Agile and Lean will help you to develop the right products for your business and customers\, reduce your delivery time\, increase the quality of your software\, and create happy high performing teams.\n \nFull day workshop at the 2nd Agile Greece Summit \nMany organizations are going through agile transformations. They are implementing Scrum and maybe a large scale agile framework like SAFe\, LeSS or DAD\, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customers. \nUnfortunately those transformation do not always live up to the agile promise to deliver faster\, make 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 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\, on your Scrum and Kanban boards\, for your product reviews/demos and in your agile retrospectives. \nWorkshop outline \nIn this workshop you will experience agile practices for teams and stakeholders with advice on how to deploy them\, and tips and tricks to become more agile and lean. You’ll learn how to develop the right products for your business and customers\, reduce delivery time\, increase quality of your software\, and create happy high performing teams. \nLearning outcomes \n\nEffective practices for planning games\, stand-ups\, demos and retrospectives\nIdeas for improving collaboration in teams and between teams and stakeholders\nTips and tricks to improve your agile way of working\nAdvice on selecting and applying agile practices effectively\n\nTarget Audience \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\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 \nThis workshop is held at the Agile Greece 2016 Summit in collaboration with agilegreec.org.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-getting-agile-lean-agile-greece-summit-2016/
LOCATION:Cine Kerameikos\, Κεραμεικού 58 & Μαραθώνος\, Athens \, Greece
CATEGORIES:Greece,Making Agile Work,More Agile and Lean,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160917
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160521T070727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T113006Z
UID:10598-1473984000-1474070399@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Agile Greece Summit 2016
DESCRIPTION:Agile Greece Summit 2016 is an international event with world class agile experts. Designed for executives\, team leaders\, project managers\, developers. \nAfter giving a talk and two successful workshops at the first Agile Greece Summit in 2015 I was invited back to the 2016 Agile Greece Summit. \nI will attend the Agile Greece Summit and give two workshops on the day before and after the conference: \nValuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams – September 15 \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. More info -> \nGetting More out of Agile and Lean – September 17 \nThe practices in the workshop Getting More out of Agile and Lean will help you to develop the right products for your business and customers\, reduce your delivery time\, increase the quality of your software\, and create happy high performing teams. More info -> \nLooking forward to come to Athens again 🙂
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-greece-summit-2016/
LOCATION:Cine Kerameikos\, Κεραμεικού 58 & Μαραθώνος\, Athens \, Greece
CATEGORIES:Conference,Greece
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160916
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160527T073312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T113021Z
UID:10636-1473897600-1473983999@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams at Agile Greece Summit 2016
DESCRIPTION:Agile 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. \nFull day workshop at the 2nd Agile Greece Summit \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. \nThe best 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. \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. \nWorkshop outline \nIn this interactive workshop you will be doing several agile iterations where each of them uses a different kind of retrospective. 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! \nLearning outcomes \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 facilitating retrospectives\n\nTarget Audience \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nTestimonials \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 \nThis workshop is held at the Agile Greece 2016 Summit in collaboration with agilegreec.org. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-retrospectives-greece-2016/
LOCATION:Cine Kerameikos\, Κεραμεικού 58 & Μαραθώνος\, Athens \, Greece
CATEGORIES:Greece,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160914
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160328T084608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T113859Z
UID:10425-1473638400-1473811199@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:SwanseaCon: Agile Development & Software Craftsmanship conference
DESCRIPTION:SwanseaCon is a technical event for Software Developers\, Software Architects\, Project Managers\, Analysts and Consultants in Wales. The second year is scheduled to kick start on 12th of September and go on until the 13th of September 2016 at the Liberty Stadium\, Swansea\, South Wales. \nSwanseaCon 2016 will be the second agile development and software craftsmanship conference in Swansea\, South Wales. Exploring the latest agile and lean thinking in software craftsmanship\, teams and business. The conference hopes to attract people from all parts of the globe to explore\, evolve and find out what it means to be truly agile in business\, from its culture to product development practices. \nI will be covering this conference for InfoQ.com.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/swanseacon-agile-development-software-craftsmanship-conference/
LOCATION:Liberty Stadium\, Landore\, Swansea\, South West Wales\, SA1 2FA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference,UK
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160706
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160708
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160518T111525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T113915Z
UID:10591-1467763200-1467935999@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Spark the Change London 2016
DESCRIPTION:Spark the Change is about an organisation’s ability to be responsive\, innovative and harness the energy of its employees. It brings together leaders from across the business to explore how they can work together to create lasting and total change. \nI will cover this conference for InfoQ: \nSpark offers a mixture of inspirational talks from leaders who have achieved exceptional transformations alongside highly practical workshops to allow you to create tailored learning for your own needs. It’s an opportunity to learn\, find inspiration and re-energise\, allowing you to try loads of different courses in one place to know which would be the most useful / interesting for your people. You’ll meet other individuals committed to improving their organisations and making changes with learning and tips to share. After attending Spark\, you will know exactly what change you’re going to spark and have the confidence and skills to make it happen. \nFor my conference coverage and other publications on InfoQ.com\, please see Ben Linders at InfoQ.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/spark-change-london-2016/
LOCATION:The Brewery\, 52 Chiswell St\, London\, EC1Y 4SD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference,UK
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160621
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160622
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160511T105536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T113931Z
UID:10539-1466467200-1466553599@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams\, Utrecht
DESCRIPTION:In this interactive workshop you can practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to facilitate agile retrospectives. You will learn the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring for your agile team. \nWho should attend this workshop \nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\nTeam\, product or project managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nYou will learn how to design and facilitate agile retrospectives that help (Scrum) teams and organizations to become more agile and lean. \nRetrospective exercises \nThis workshop helps you to practice retrospectives and develop your facilitation skills. You will do different kinds of retrospective\, using exercise like: \n\nSail Boat\nEffective questioning\nDealing with feelings in teams\nImproving using strengths with Solution Focused\nRoot cause analysis of problems\nGetting Feedback with the Perfection Game\n\nWhat will you get out of the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives \nYou will learn in this workshop how to adopt and apply retrospectives in your own organization and how to use a toolbox with retrospective exercises to do valuable agile retrospectives with teams which contribute to the goals and results of your organization. \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 facilitating retrospectives\n\nInvestment \nCost of this full-day workshop is €645\,- excluding VAT. This price includes all workshop materials and lunch. Early bird discount of 25%: €484\,- when registering before June 1! \nThere’s a 25% discount for every additional attendee from the same organization! Please indicate how many people will attend the workshop when subscribing. \nFree cancellation of the workshop is possible until two weeks before the workshop date. If you are not able to attend the workshop then a colleague may take your place. Please let me know who will attend. The workshop may be cancelled if there are insufficient participants. \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. \nSubscribe now! \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n	Attendee Details\n	\n	Name: \nEmail Address: \nCompany Name: \nTelephone Number: \nNumber of persons attending: \n\n	 \nΔ\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Trainer \nBen Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality and Continuous Improvement\, based in The Netherlands. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\, What Drives Quality and Continuous Improvement. \nAs an adviser\, coach and trainer he helps organizations to improve continuously by deploying effective software development and management practices. \nBen is recognized worldwide as an expert practitioner on Agile Retrospectives. He’s a well respected member of many networks and meetups on Agile Retrospectives and Continuous Improvement\, an invited (keynote) speaker at conferences and in-company events\, and a renowned trainer and author. \nTestimonials \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“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 \nAdditional information \n\nDetailed description workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams\nBook: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\nBoek: Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\n\nThis workshop is also given as a tutorial\, and as private in-house workshop tailored to the specific situation and needs of your company. Contact me if you want to discuss the possibilities. \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 \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-teams-utrecht/
LOCATION:Utrecht (TBA)\, Utrecht\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Netherlands,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Linders":MAILTO:benlinders@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160614
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160616
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160427T070232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T113957Z
UID:10511-1465862400-1466035199@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:GOTO Amsterdam 2016
DESCRIPTION:I will be covering the GOTO Amsterdam conference for InfoQ: \nGOTO Amsterdam is a practitioner-driven enterprise software development conference designed for team leads\, architects\, and project management and is organized “for developers by developers”. As software developers and architects ourselves\, we wanted to craft the ultimate conference. \nThe result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community\, staged in an intimate environment needed to support as much learning and networking as possible.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/goto-amsterdam-2016/
LOCATION:Beurs van Berlage\, Damrak 243\, Amsterdam\, 1012ZJ\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Netherlands
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160528
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160208T122445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T114018Z
UID:10258-1464307200-1464393599@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Effective Agile Retrospectives\, Istanbul\, Turkey
DESCRIPTION:A full day workshop to learn how to improve the effectiveness of Agile Retrospectives in the beautiful city of Istanbul\, Turkey. \nIn this workshop you will learn different exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives\, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring you. \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. \nThe best 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. \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 facilitating retrospectives\n\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\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. \nThis workshop is done in collaboration with Agile Mentor Academy. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-effective-agile-retrospectives-istanbul-turkey/
LOCATION:Agile Mentor Academy\, Istanbul\, Turkey
CATEGORIES:Retrospectives Teams,Turkey,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Agile Mentor Academy":MAILTO:info@agilementoracademy.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160525
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160526
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160518T074059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T114039Z
UID:10583-1464134400-1464220799@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Software-Centric Systems Conference
DESCRIPTION:I’m covering the Software-Centric Systems Conference for InfoQ: \nThe Software-Centric Systems Conference facilitates the exchange of knowledge and experiences in the crucial and strategic discipline of complex software development. It is here to help professionals and decision makers in information-intensive markets with the use of technology\, to drive innovation and to provide insight in emerging trends. Through structured and informal networking they can share ideas on how to make the software development process more reliable and more efficient\, in order to improve the time-to-market and time-to-value. \nThe Software-Centric Systems Conference is hosted at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven. The Eindhoven region is a globally recognized hot spot of the high tech industry\, home to many renowned multinational and international companies\, such as ASML\, FEI Company\, Philips\, Tomtom and numerous others. The region produces some of the most sophisticated embedded/technical software in the world and employs in excess of 6\,000 highly skilled software engineers. \nFor my conference coverage and other publications on InfoQ.com\, please see Ben Linders at InfoQ.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/software-centric-systems-conference/
LOCATION:High Tech Campus\, Eindhoven – Conference Center The Strip\, High Tech Campus 1\, Eindhoven \,  5656 AE\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Netherlands
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160430
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160102T083446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T114204Z
UID:10129-1461542400-1461974399@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Retrospective Facilitators Gathering 2016
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 2016 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-2016/
LOCATION:Memmo Baleeira\, Sítio da Baleeira\, Sagres\, 8650-357 \, Portugal
CATEGORIES:Conference,Portugal
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160413
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160218T120046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T114933Z
UID:10284-1460419200-1460505599@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Increasing Organizational Agility with Retrospectives at AgileEE (Kiev)
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop you will learn how to scale agile retrospectives\, doing them with multiple teams from a project\, product or organization\, practice facilitation skills with different retrospective exercises\, and learn how you can introduce and improve retrospectives. You will also learn to do agile self-assessments and readiness checks and to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to increase their agility. \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. The 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. \nAgile retrospectives are mostly known as a technique for a team to reflect and learn at the end of each iteration (see the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams). This workshop build 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. \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 Increasing Organizational Agility with Retrospectives \n\nHow to scale retrospectives in the organization over multiple teams\nUnderstanding how retrospectives can be used to do continuous improvement and improve organizational agility\nEstablishing pre-requirements for effective retrospectives in the organization\nAdvanced facilitation skills for doing effective and efficient retrospectives\nApproaches to improve the usage and results of retrospectives\n\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile coaches and change agents\nScrum masters and retrospective facilitators\nTeam\, product or project managers\n(senior) managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nAttendant should have basic knowledge about agile retrospectives and some experience with facilitating retrospectives (to learn the basics you can attend the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams which is given on April 11). \nThis workshop is organised in collaboration with Scrumguides.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-increasing-organizational-agility-with-retrospectives-at-agileee-kiev/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Kiev\, Ukraine
CATEGORIES:Retrospectives Agility,Ukraine,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160411
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160412
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160212T143955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T114954Z
UID:10272-1460332800-1460419199@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams at AgileEE (Kiev)
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop you will learn different exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives\, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring you. \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. \nThe best 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. \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 facilitating retrospectives\n\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective facilitators\nAgile coaches\nScrum masters\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. \nDo you want to improve retrospectives at a project or release level\, remote retrospectives\, or use retrospectives to drive continuous improvement? Please join the workshop Increasing Organizational Agility with Retrospectives which is given on April 12. \nThis workshop is organised in collaboration with Scrumguides. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-at-agileee-kiev/
LOCATION:Ramada Encore Kiev\, 103\, Stolichnoe Shosse\, Kiev\, Ukraine
CATEGORIES:Retrospectives Teams,Ukraine,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160410
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160229T072215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T115010Z
UID:10322-1460160000-1460246399@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Agile Eastern Europe 2016 Conference in Kiev
DESCRIPTION:I´m giving a talk about “The Road to Agility” at the Agile Eastern Europe 2016 conference\, the annual\, largest and most well-known Agile conference in Eastern Europe. \nAdopting agile often doesn’t go as smoothly as expected in an organization. The road to agility can be hard to travel: You can’t plan your journey up front and there will be surprises along the way. Becoming agile is a learning process which requires that you reflect regularly and adopt your way of working\, finding better ways to travel. \nBen Linders will explore what teams\, agile coaches\, Scrum masters\, and managers can do to be prepared for a journey to agility\, what to pack and how to decide which road to follow along the way. This talk will help you to successfully deploy ideas and practices that you’ve learned at the conference. \n \nIn collaborating with the Agile Eastern Europe conference and Scrumguides I’m also giving two workshops in Kiev: Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams on April 11 and Increasing Organizational Agility with Retrospectives on April 12. Where the first workshop aims to help agile teams to find ways to learn and improve continuously\, the second workshop supports to scale this capability to projects and to the whole organization to increase agility. There’s a discount if you attend both workshops.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-eastern-europe-2016-conference-in-kiev/
LOCATION:Ramada Encore Kiev\, 103\, Stolichnoe Shosse\, Kiev\, Ukraine
CATEGORIES:Conference,Ukraine
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160405
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160406
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20150925T065524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T115605Z
UID:9784-1459814400-1459900799@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Nuggets for your Continuous Improvement Journey at Agilia Conference
DESCRIPTION:Agilia Conference is Central European conference about agile methods. Narrow focus on selected topics and private exclusive content makes this event unique. \nI will give a workshop on Valuable Agile Retrospectives and a talk on Nuggets for your Continuous Improvement Journey at the Agilia 2016 conference. For more info\, see Ben Linders’ contributions to Agilia 2016. \nNuggets for your Continuous Improvement Journey \nMy view on agile innovation is a view of continuous improvement. To increase agility teams should deploy those practices they consider to be most suitable to serve the needs of their stakeholders and customers. In stead of adopting completely new ways of working\, improvement in teams should start from where they are now. Small but firm improvement steps in stead of revolutions which help teams to improving their processes and way of working  in a sustainable way. \nThis presentation will explore teams that took control of their agile journey\, and teams that didn’t (and why they didn’t manage to do it). I will share experiences of how teams assessed how agile they are\, and how they used retrospectives to reflect and decide upon actions to do things differently from now on\, and how they executed those actions. This talk provides you with “nuggets”: practices\, experiences\, experiments and ideas that are based on doing improvement in software development organizations for more that 20 years. \nDuring the presentation there will be room to discuss your “nuggets”\, the things you tried which worked or didn’t work. Together we will dive into the success factors for making improvement work.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/nuggets-for-your-continuous-improvement-journey-at-agilia-conference/
LOCATION:Clarion Congress Hotel Olomouc\, Jeremenkova 36\, Olomouc\, 77900\, Czech Republic
CATEGORIES:Conference,Czech Republic
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160404
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160405
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20150925T064427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T120040Z
UID:9780-1459728000-1459814399@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop  Valuable Agile Retrospectives at Agilia Conference
DESCRIPTION:Agilia Conference is Central European conference about agile methods. Narrow focus on selected topics and private exclusive content makes this event unique. \nI will give a workshop on Valuable Agile Retrospectives and a talk on Nuggets for your Continuous Improvement Journey at the Agilia 2016 conference. For more info\, see Ben Linders’ contributions to Agilia 2016. \nWorkshop  Valuable Agile Retrospectives \nAgile retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting at the end of each iteration to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions in the next iteration \nIn this workshop you will learn to do agile self-assessments and readiness checks and to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to become more agile and lean. \nWhat will you get out of the workshop: \n\nUnderstanding of the why and how of continuous improvement and how retrospectives can contribute\nKnow how to establish the pre-requirements for retrospectives and create safe environments to run a retrospectives\nExercises for doing effective and efficient retrospectives\nApproaches to deploy retrospectives and to improve their usage and results\nHow to scale retrospectives in the organisation\n\nAttendant of this workshop will receive a free copy of the book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives in English or a copy of a translated edition. \nHere you can register yourself for this conference.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-at-agilia-conference/
LOCATION:Clarion Congress Hotel Olomouc\, Jeremenkova 36\, Olomouc\, 77900\, Czech Republic
CATEGORIES:Czech Republic,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160307
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160310
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160104T161327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T120112Z
UID:10142-1457308800-1457567999@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:QCon London 2016
DESCRIPTION:QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. \nA practitioner-driven conference\, QCon is designed for technical team leads\, architects\, engineering directors\, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams. \nI will be covering the QCon London conference for InfoQ with video interviews and news.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/qcon-london-2016/
LOCATION:Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre\, Broad Sanctuary\, Westminster\, London\, England\, SW1P 3EE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference,UK
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160220
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20151115T205243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T120158Z
UID:9941-1455840000-1455926399@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Increasing Organizational Agility with Retrospectives in Melbourne\, Australia
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop you will learn how to scale agile retrospectives\, doing them with multiple teams from a project\, product or organization\, practice facilitation skills with different retrospective exercises\, and learn how you can introduce and improve retrospectives. You will also learn to do agile self-assessments and readiness checks and to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to increase their agility. \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. The 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. \nAgile retrospectives are mostly known as a technique for a team to reflect and learn at the end of each iteration (see the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams). This workshop build 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. \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\nHow to scale retrospectives in the organization over multiple teams\nUnderstanding how retrospectives can be used to do continuous improvement and improve organizational agility\nEstablishing pre-requirements for effective retrospectives in the organization\nAdvanced facilitation skills for doing effective and efficient retrospectives\nApproaches to improve the usage and results of retrospectives\n\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile coaches and change agents\nScrum masters and retrospective facilitators\nTeam\, product or project managers\n(senior) managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nAttendant should have basic knowledge about agile retrospectives and some experience with facilitating retrospectives (to learn the basics you can attend the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams which is given on February 18). \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. \nA discount is available if you combine this workshop with the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams which is given on February 18. \nThis workshop is organized in collaboration with Elabor8. Contact me for a promotional code to get a discount! \nNot able to come to Melbourne? This workshop is also offered in Sydney: \n\nIncreasing Organizational Agility with Retrospectives in Sydney\, Australia (February 11)
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospective-advanced-in-melbourne/
LOCATION:Elabor8 offices\, 455 Bourke Street. Level 7\, Melbourne\, VIC 3000 AU\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Australia,Retrospectives Agility,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160217
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20151115T100404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T120627Z
UID:9934-1455580800-1455667199@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Getting more out of Agile & Lean in Melbourne\, Australia
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 a large scale agile framework like SAFe\, LeSS or DAD\, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customers. \nUnfortunately those transformation do not always live up to the agile promise to deliver faster\, make 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 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\, on 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 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\, and create happy high performing teams. \nWhat will you get out of this workshop \n\nEffective practices for planning games\, stand-ups\, demos and retrospectives\nIdeas for improving collaboration in teams and between teams and stakeholders\nTips and tricks to improve your agile way of working\nAdvice on selecting and applying agile practices effectively\n\nThis workshop is organized in collaboration with Elabor8. Contact me for a promotional code to get a discount! \nNot able to come to Melbourne? This workshop is also offered in Sydney: \n\nGetting more out of Agile & Lean in Sydney\, Australia (February 12)
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/getting-more-out-of-agile-lean-in-melbourne-australia/
LOCATION:Elabor8 offices\, 455 Bourke Street. Level 7\, Melbourne\, VIC 3000 AU\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Australia,More Agile and Lean,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160216
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20151215T131446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T120640Z
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SUMMARY:Keynote on The Need for Continuous Improvement in Agile at 1stConf
DESCRIPTION:I will give a keynote about The Need for Continuous Improvement in Agile at 1stConf on February 15  in Melbourne\, Australia: \nFor decades people have looked for the best way to develop software. Multiple methods and frameworks have been explored to guide organizations on how to develop software. Although we have\, as a whole improved\, organizations can still struggle. Delivering working software still seems to be hard. \nMany organizations that have had success with agile\, but there are also agile transformations that have not produced the  expected results. Better software development is not about implementing the the best framework or method throughout the organization. \nAgile takes a different approach by stating “We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it”. What matters is that people\, teams and organizations adopt an agile mindset and learn how to deploy suitable practices effectively so that they can adapt to the situation at hand. \nAgile isn’t a silver bullet\, and it’s not a one size fits all approach. Continuous improvement is what makes it work\, it’s at the heart of agile. Ben will show why continuous improvement matters in agile and what you can do to help your teams and organization to be more agile. \nThis is a one day conference\, aimed at people starting out with agile. The event is being run by practitioners from the Melbourne community. 2016 is the second year that this event will be held. \nJob titles of people who should come may include but is not limited to: CIOs\, CTOs\, Directors\, Developers\, Product Managers\, Business Analysts\, Designers\, UX Designers\, Sales\, Human Resources\, Marketing\, Legal\, Testers\, Project Managers. \nThe conference features two keynote speakers: \nWe will be hearing from the world renowned agile thinker\, Dr Alistair Cockburn. He has recently developed a philosophy that he calls The Heart of Agile. \nWe are also fortunate to have Ben Linders visit Australia for the first time. He is an expert in retrospectives and an author of a book on the same topic. \nI’m also running a mini-workshop at 1stConf\, the Agile & Lean Impediment Game. This game is from my workshop Getting More out of Agile and Lean that will be run in Melbourne during my visit. Actually I’m giving three workshops in Melbourne in February: \n\nWorkshop Getting more out of Agile and Lean on February 16\nWorkshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives (beginners) on February 18\nWorkshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives (advanced) on February 19\n\nYour can register yourself for the 1stConf  and sign up for the workshops on eventbrite. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/keynote-on-the-need-for-continuous-improvement-in-agile-at-1stconf/
LOCATION:Telstra Conference Centre\, 1/242 Exhibition St\, Melbourne\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Australia,Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160212
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160213
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160117T101712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171231T150016Z
UID:10182-1455235200-1455321599@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Getting more out of Agile & Lean in Sydney\, Australia
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 a large scale agile framework like SAFe\, LeSS or DAD\, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customers. \nUnfortunately those transformation do not always live up to the agile promise to deliver faster\, make 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 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\, on 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 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\, and create happy high performing teams. \nWhat will you get out of this workshop \n\nEffective practices for planning games\, stand-ups\, demos and retrospectives\nIdeas for improving collaboration in teams and between teams and stakeholders\nTips and tricks to improve your agile way of working\nAdvice on selecting and applying agile practices effectively\n\nThis workshop is organized in collaboration with Elabor8. Contact me for a promotional code to get a discount! \nNot able to come to Sydney? This workshop is also offered in Melbourne: \n\nGetting more out of Agile & Lean in Melbourne\, Australia (February 16)
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-getting-more-out-of-agile-lean-in-sydney-australia/
LOCATION:Elabor8 office Sydney\, 1 Bligh Street\, Sydney\, 2000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Australia,Making Agile Work,More Agile and Lean,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160212
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20160117T104442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T121345Z
UID:10185-1455148800-1455235199@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Increasing Organizational Agility with Retrospectives in Sydney\, Australia
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop you will learn how to scale agile retrospectives\, doing them with multiple teams from a project\, product or organization\, practice facilitation skills with different retrospective exercises\, and learn how you can introduce and improve retrospectives. You will also learn to do agile self-assessments and readiness checks and to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to increase their agility. \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. The 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. \nAgile retrospectives are mostly known as a technique for a team to reflect and learn at the end of each iteration. This workshop build 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. \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\nHow to scale retrospectives in the organization over multiple teams\nUnderstanding how retrospectives can be used to do continuous improvement and improve organizational agility\nEstablishing pre-requirements for effective retrospectives in the organization\nAdvanced facilitation skills for doing effective and efficient retrospectives\nApproaches to improve the usage and results of retrospectives\n\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile coaches and change agents\nScrum masters and retrospective facilitators\nTeam\, product or project managers\n(senior) managers\nAnybody involved in retrospectives\n\nAttendant should have basic knowledge about agile retrospectives and some experience with facilitating retrospectives. \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. \nThis workshop is organized in collaboration with Elabor8. Contact me for a promotional code to get a discount! \nNot able to come to Sydney? This workshop is also offered in Melbourne: \n\nIncreasing Organizational Agility with Retrospectives in Melbourne\, Australia (February 19)
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-increasing-organizational-agility-with-retrospectives-in-sydney-australia/
LOCATION:Elabor8 office Sydney\, 1 Bligh Street\, Sydney\, 2000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Australia,Retrospectives Agility,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160205
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20151231T094901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T121506Z
UID:10126-1454544000-1454630399@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:DevOps Summit Brussels
DESCRIPTION:Unicom is organizing a DevOps Summit in Brussels: \nThis one day programme is designed to connect a wide range of stakeholders. The expert practitioners and thought leaders at this DevOps Summit will give help you to develop your business case and build the foundation towards getting significant return on investment. \nThis summit will engage not just existing DevOps pros\, but also managers and executives like CIOs and CISOs\, Dev and Ops managers\, business leaders and architects. \nI will be covering this conference for InfoQ. \nPlease contact me if you want to have a discount (available until January 6).
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/devops-summit-brussels/
LOCATION:KBC Bank Brussels\, Havenlaan 2\, Brussels\, 1080\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Belgium,Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160205
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20151231T093658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T121521Z
UID:10122-1454544000-1454630399@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Scaling Agile for the Enterprise
DESCRIPTION:The Agile Consortium and Unicom are organizing the Scaling Agile for the Enterprise conference in Brussels: \nAt this second year of the Scaling Agile for the Enterprise conference we will bring together stalwart thought leaders on Agile Leadership like Jurgen Appelo\, Christopher Avery\, Jenni Jepsen\, Dave Snowden \, Dan North  and other  speakers to show how to change the company culture . You will discover what is needed to create an Agile environment and what type of leadership styles are best suited to make the Agile mind set thrive in your organisation. \nI will be covering this conference for InfoQ.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/scaling-agile-for-the-enterprise/
LOCATION:KBC Bank Brussels\, Havenlaan 2\, Brussels\, 1080\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Belgium,Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160128
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20151103T101103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T121543Z
UID:9908-1453852800-1453939199@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Agile Practitioners Conference in Tel Aviv
DESCRIPTION:The Agile Practitioners conference is the agile conference for the agile community by the agile community. Conference theme for 2016 is Hands-on agility. \nThe conference is for any Agile practitioner\, novice\, intermediate or expert\, seeking to increase their knowledge and network. The program is carefully crafted to suit programmers\, testers\, managers\, product managers\, program managers\, human-resources professionals\, coaches\, consultants\, senior managers\, and practically anyone who is or wants to be an awesome Agile Practitioner. \nAt the Agile Practitioners conference I will talk about Spicing Up Agile Retrospectives: \nThe agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. Retrospectives help teams to deploy agile practices in an effective way and to continuously learn and improve themselves. Ben Linders\, co-author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, will talk about the why and how of agile retrospectives\, with much practical tips\, stories\, and examples. \nI will also cover this conference for InfoQ. \nAt January 26 I will give a workshop Make Your Agile Retrospectives More Valuable as a full day tutorial at the Agile Practitioners Conference. \nTicket sales has started\, click here to register
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-practitioners-conference-in-tel-aviv/
LOCATION:Kfar Maccabiah Hotel\, Perets Bernstein 7 st. Ramat-Gan\, Tel Aviv\, 5224771\, Israel
CATEGORIES:Conference,Israel
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160126
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160127
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20151025T084437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T121559Z
UID:9878-1453766400-1453852799@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:Workshop Make Your Agile Retrospectives More Valuable at Agile Practitioners Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Agile Practitioners conference is the agile conference for the agile community by the agile community. Conference theme for 2016 is Hands-on agility. \nI will give the workshop Make Your Agile Retrospectives More Valuable: \nThe agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. They help teams to address impediments and optimize their flow\, by deploying agile and lean  practices in an effective way. The retrospective facilitator (often the scrum master) should have a toolbox of retrospective exercises\, and be able to pick the most effective ones. Retrospectives are a great way for teams to improve their way of working\, to become more agile and lean. Getting actions out of a retrospective that are doable\, and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve continuously. \nWhat can attendees take away from this workshop: \n\nLearn about the why and how of Agile Retrospectives\nExperience difference retrospective exercises\nTips and tricks to address blockers and improve flow with retrospectives\nSee the benefits of using effective exercises in retrospectives\n\nIn this workshop I will explain the “what” and “why” of retrospectives and the business value and benefits that they can bring. Attendance will practice one or more retrospective exercises and learn how to facilitate retrospectives. I will also give advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. The workshop is based on the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives. \nTicket sales has started\,  click here to register
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-make-your-agile-retrospectives-more-valuable-at-agile-practitioners-conference/
LOCATION:Kfar Maccabiah Hotel\, Perets Bernstein 7 st. Ramat-Gan\, Tel Aviv\, 5224771\, Israel
CATEGORIES:Israel,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151205
DTSTAMP:20260501T060608
CREATED:20151130T152122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T121621Z
UID:9971-1449100800-1449273599@www.benlinders.com
SUMMARY:GOTO Berlin 2015
DESCRIPTION:From the GOTO Berlin website: \nGOTO Berlin is the enterprise software development conference designed for team leads\, architects\, and project management and is organized “for developers by developers”. As software developers and architects ourselves\, we wanted to craft the ultimate conference. \nThe result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community\, staged in an intimate environment needed to support as much learning and networking as possible. \nOur concept has always been to present the latest developments as they become relevant and interesting for the software development community. With a 360 degree perspective we present new technology and trends to give the attendees inspiration\, energy and desire to learn. Plus\, we always have awesome speakers! \nGOTO Berlin is about learning\, networking and meeting the best in our communities. \nI will cover the GOTO Berlin 2015 conference for InfoQ.com with write-ups\, Q&As and articles. See publications by Ben Linders on InfoQ.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/goto-berlin-2015/
LOCATION:Kosmos\, Karl-Marx-Allee 131a\, Berlin\, 10243\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference,Germany
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