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SUMMARY:Workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives
DESCRIPTION:Learn how you can facilitate retrospectives\, practice exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in retrospectives in the online workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives on October 17\, 2022. \nA one-day interactive workshop for €450. \n \n \nFacilitating Retrospectives\nAgile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting at the end of each iteration to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions in the next iteration. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and lead valuable agile retrospectives. \nFacilitating retrospectives can be hard. As a facilitator you need to: \n\nSet the stage where people get into a reflection and learning mode\nDo exercises that get people involved and bring out issues that the team wants to work on\nEstablish psychological safety for people to be open about what bothers them\nRecognize and deal with retrospective smells or anti-patterns when they happen\nGuide the team to come up with their vital few actions to make change happen\n\nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\nIt’s more difficult to foster productive and collaborative behavior and keep everyone involved during the meeting\nNot physically being together calls for different retrospective exercises or innovative ways to do exercises online\nEstablishing psychological safety when people collaborate remotely is essential\, but can be hard to do\n\nIn the workshop Facilitating Effective Retrospectives\, we will practice leading retrospectives while fostering psychological safety using exercises that keep people involved. \nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nRetrospective Facilitators\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile Teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nAnybody who is involved in agile retrospectives\n\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to get more value from doing (remote) agile retrospectives. \nResults\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore unproductive behavior in retrospectives and learn to recognize retrospective smells or anti-patterns\nDevelop your facilitation skills for leading retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for in-person and distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in retrospectives and what can be done to keep people involved\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive online live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nThere’s no minimum number of attendees\, this workshop will be held even if only one person signs up. Tickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can participate in exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until two weeks before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAll attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Bingo\, and a copy of the Agile Retrospectives Smells Cards. (value €30). \n \nTestimonials\nThe below testimonials come from the many workshops on agile retrospectives that I have done over the years. \n“The workshop presented in a clear way why retrospectives are the driving force to an organization which wants to improve. Using some playful exercises I learned several easy ways to extract the current status of the team and how to decide which should be the next steps to address potential problems and risks” \nNikolaos Raptis – Scrum Master – Software Developer at Scytl Secure Electronic Voting \n“I got a better understanding of retrospectives and many ideas on how to use them in my work. I can suggest this workshop to anyone that wants to go agile.  Also thanks for the reading material\, I found it very helpful.” \nBill Souliotis – Manager Software Research & Development Graphics User Interface at BETA CAE Systems \n“After working together for many years\, our team (myself included) grew out of the need for formal retrospectives. This workshop helped to get some fresh ideas that can refuel our retros and stressed some key points about the necessity and importance of facilitation in these events.” \nYorgos Saslis – Solution Design Executive at CytechMobile.com \n“I’d like to thank you again for your excellent workshop. It was fun and I already started using some of the ideas with my team. The change is definitely notable.” \nLiran Ben-Porat\, qSpark LTD \n“Thanks once again for a wonderful workshop! We have a lot of useful outputs which we are going to implement. And thanks for the free copy of your book about the retrospectives\, now we are able to go through the topics once again and do the exercises in our company.” \nJakub Grós\, Project Engineer at Honeywell \n“I found the workshop very useful. We’ve already started to experiment with some action items we gave ourselves in the workshop\, doing changes in our overall retrospective approach. We are also trying out cross facilitation\, having our retrospectives facilitated by a Scrum master of another team.” \nSimona Humpolová\, Scrum master at EmbedIT \nI have taken some of my Scrum masters to Ben’s retrospective training. I like the training very much\, and also his website which contains many retro techniques. I still use this as a reference when I coach people. \nZoltán Ludányi\, Agile Software Development Consultant \nLearning by practicing and experiencing\nDoing it yourself and reflecting is the way people learn new practices and develop skills in my workshops. They work in teams to try out things and experiment with practices to learn how agile can really look and feel. I coach people\, answer questions\, share my experience\, and provide lots of ideas. They learn from me\, and also from each other. \nI use many exercises\, games\, and real-life cases in my workshops. Examples are the retrospectives toolbox\, the Impediment Game\, and the Agile Self-assessment Game. \nMy approach enables attendees to apply the things they learned in their daily work.\nThe workshops are time well spent; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-facilitating-retrospectives-october-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:QA&Test 2022: Improving Your Quality and Testing Skills with Gamification
DESCRIPTION:I will give a special lecture at QA&Test 2022 about Improving Your Quality and Testing Skills with Gamification. Join me October 19-21 in Bilbao\, Spain. \nImproving Your Quality and Testing Skills with Gamification\nSo many challenges\, so little time. As testers or quality engineers\, we need to sharpen the saw\, but how? Gamification can be a way to look at how you’re doing and find out where to improve. It’s a great way to have everyone engaged and get the best out of people. \nIn this presentation\, Ben Linders will show how playing games (onsite or online) with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards help to explore your current quality and testing practice and decide as a team on what to improve or experiment with. \nQA&Test\nQA&TEST embedded is a yearly event\, held in Bilbao since 2001\, with the intention to diffuse the latest technological developments in Software Testing and Quality Assurance for embedded and complex systems. \nQA&TEST embedded aims to bring together professionals and international experts from different sectors such as rail\, aeronautics\, medicine\, electronic devices\, banking\, insurance or telecommunications. Directors\, project managers\, program directors\, as well as all kinds of professionals from the world of testing who work in the field of software quality and testing can benefit from the extraordinary opportunity for training and networking that both conferences involve. \nSQS\, Software Quality Systems\, organises QA&TEST since the very beginning in 2001. SQS\, as the leading provider of software quality consultancy and testing services\, has witnessed how their customers improve the quality of their software developments while dramatically reducing the costs of correcting bugs and maintenance. \n 
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/qatest-2022-improving-your-quality-and-testing-skills-with-gamification/
LOCATION:Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall\, Abandoibarra Etorb.\, 4\, Bilbao\, Bizkaia\, 48011\, Spain
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