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SUMMARY:AgileEE 2015
DESCRIPTION:Agile Eastern Europe is the annual\, largest and most well-known Agile conference in the Eastern Europe. \nI will do a session about Sustainable Improvement through Agile Retrospectives: \nBuy-in from professionals is crucial to make changes succeed in organizations. Many improvement programs fail when professionals are insufficiently involved during the changes. Agile retrospectives can be used to do continuous and lasting improvements in organizations. They are owned and done by the teams\, who decide when\, where\, and how they will change their way of working. This is why agile retrospectives are a sustainable approach for improvement. \nWe need to uncover better ways to do improvements in organizations. Use an iterative approach for change with short-cycled improvements and frequent feedback to learn how to improve and get better in doing it. Agile retrospectives are a better way to do continuous improvement.  Teams decide when\, where\, and how they will change their way of working\, in stead of having the changes dictated by managers or quality/process people. Retrospectives give power to the teams and help them to become self-organized. \nMy first book  Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives – A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises contains many exercises that you can use to do retrospectives\, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives\, the business value and benefits that they can bring you\, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agileee-2015/
LOCATION:President Hotel Kiev\, 12 Gospitalnaya street\, Kiev\, Ukraine
CATEGORIES:Conference,Ukraine
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SUMMARY:Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives (Basic & Advanced) @ AGILEEE
DESCRIPTION:In 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. \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. Valuable Agile Retrospectives provide the solution for a successful agile adoption at all levels in the organization. Retrospectives help you to apply agile practices effectively. With Retrospectives teams and their stakeholders can continuously improve themselves to deliver more value. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nThis 2 day workshop is given in conjunction with the AgileEE conference in Kiev\, Ukraine. \nDay 1: Introduction to Retrospectives and Basic Exercises\n\nWhat are retrospectives\, purpose and how they fit into agile\nPreconditions for doing agile retrospectives\nGettig actions done from retrospectives\nBasic exercises\n\nDay 2: Advanced Agile Retrospectives \n\nRetrospective smells\nGetting more value out of your agile retrospectives\nFacilitation skills for agile retrospectives\nScaling retrospectives\nAdvanced exercises\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.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-valuable-agile-retrospectives-basic-advanced-agileee/
LOCATION:President Hotel Kiev\, 12 Gospitalnaya street\, Kiev\, Ukraine
CATEGORIES:Retrospectives Agility,Retrospectives Teams,Ukraine,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20150319T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20150319T230000
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SUMMARY:Agile Testing Day 2015
DESCRIPTION:Join this one-day conference for and by international software testing professionals involved in agile work processes to improve your agile skills and network with your peers. \nThe Agile Testing Day is a one-day conference for and by international software testing professionals involved in agile work processes. Join this event with your agile team to learn and network with your peers. \nI will be covering this conference for InfoQ.com: my InfoQ publications \nGet 15% discount when attending this event! Discount code “Ben@InfoQ_015″
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/agile-testing-day-2015/
LOCATION:Hotel Houten – Utrecht\, Hoofdveste 25\, Houten\, 3992 DH\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20150311T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20150311T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T213900
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SUMMARY:Workshop Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\, Utrecht
DESCRIPTION:Retrospectives helpen je om agile practices van b.v. XP\, Scrum\, Lean en Kanban effectief toe te passen en om continu te verbeteren in teams. De workshop Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives ondersteunt succesvolle agile transformaties op alle niveaus in organisaties. \nSchrijf je nu in voor de workshop op 11 maart! \nWat leer je \n\nWaarom en wat van Agile Retrospectives\nContinu verbeteren mbv retrospectives\nRetrospective Oefeningen: Zelf doen en ervaren!\nBorgen en schalen van retrospectives\n\nVoor wie \n\nScrum masters en agile coaches halen met een toolbox van retrospective oefeningen meer uit teams\, en zorgen voor gemotiveerde en blije medewerkers.\nManagers leren hoe ze met retrospectives er voor kunnen zorgen dat agile teams meer waarde leveren aan hun klanten en stakeholders.\n\nKosten \nDe kosten voor deze eendaagse workshop inclusief lesmateriaal en lunch zijn €745\,- exclusief BTW per deelnemer. \nBij gelijktijdige inschrijving van meerdere deelnemers krijg je 25% korting voor iedere 2e en volgende deelnemer! \nBij deze workshop krijg je naar keuze het Nederlandstalige boek Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives of het Engelstalig boek Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives gratis! \nInschrijven \nDe workshop wordt gegeven op Woensdag 11 Maart 2015 in Utrecht \nWil je deelnemen aan een workshop? Neem dan contact met mij op: \n\n\n  \n\n\n\nNaam (verplicht)\n \n\n \nEmail adres (verplicht)\n \n\n \nBedrijfs\n \n\n \n\n Δ\n \n\n\n\nIk neem dan direct contact met je op voor de verdere afhandeling. \nIk geef deze workshop ook in-house. Bij voldoende interesse zijn andere datums en maatwerk mogelijk\, neem svp contact met mij op. \nTrainer \nBen Linders is een onafhankelijke consultant in Agile\, Lean\, Quality and Continue Verbetering. Auteur van Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives & What Drives Quality. \nHij helpt organisaties met het toepassen van effectieve software ontwikkeling- en managementtechnieken: Agile en Lean\, kwaliteit en foutpreventie\, borgen van verandering\, continu verbeteren en governance. \nMeer informatie \n\nUitgebreide beschrijving: workshop Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\nBoek: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\nBoek: Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\n\nWil je meer weten over deze of een van mijn anders workshops of trainingen voor je bedrijf\, afdeling of team\, neem dan contact met mij op. \n +31 6 2901 3863\n info@benlinders.com\n Ben Linders
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-waardevolle-agile-retrospectives/
LOCATION:Utrecht\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Netherlands,Retrospectives Teams,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20150310T090000
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SUMMARY:No Pants Festival
DESCRIPTION:Going remote allows the most talented people to produce the best work regardless of their location. \nThe No Pants Festival is about radical ideas and actionable practices that will empower you to go remote\, today. \nLearn how to make better decisions\, build trust\, communicate more effective and do real-time creative work together; at a distance. Going remote lets you scale up talent within your organization. \nI will be covering this conference for InfoQ.com. See my InfoQ publications \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/no-pants-festival/
LOCATION:Antwerp Management School\, Sint-Jacobsmarkt 9-13\, Antwerp\, 2000\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Belgium,Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20150304T083000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20150306T174000
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SUMMARY:QCon London 2015
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 chairing the Evolving Agile track at QCon London: \nReflecting on and learning from successes and failures in applying agile approaches since the creation of the Agile Manifesto and exploring more effective ways of applying agile principles and practices to increase business value. \nI will also give a presentation for this track: Learning to Become Agile\, with 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. They help teams to become agile by deploying agile practices in an effective way and continuously learning and improve themselves. \nThis talk explains the “what” and “why” of retrospectives and the business value and benefits that they can bring. Examples will be given of exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives\, supported with advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. It is based on the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives which is published on InfoQ\, Amazon\, Leanpub. \nRetrospectives 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 improve continuously and deliver more value to their customers.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/qcon-london-2015/
LOCATION:Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre\, Broad Sanctuary\, Westminster\, London\, England\, SW1P 3EE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference,UK
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