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SUMMARY:Improving Your Testing Skills and Practices with Gamification @ Testing United 2023
DESCRIPTION:At Testing United 2023 I will talk about Improving Your Testing Skills and Practices with Gamification. The conference will be held in Bratislava and Miami\, and in VR\, on September 4 & 5. \nImproving Your Testing Skills and Practices with Gamification\nSo many challenges\, and so little time. As testers\, 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. \nWith games\, we can foster psychological safety and create a setting where people feel safe to speak up about how things are going. Playing games with coaching cards people share what’s working and what isn’t\, the challenges they are facing\, and what they would like to try out. Everybody will be involved\, it’s a fun and effective way to practice new ideas and collaboratively decide on what to improve next. \nThe testing coaching cards contain statements about agile testing mindset\, values\, principles\, and practices. Playing with these coaching cards helps testers to explore their contributions and look for ways to increase the value that they contribute to their team and organization. \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 testing and quality practices and decide as a team on what to improve and experiment with. \n3 key takeaways \n\nLearn about gamification as a way to engage people into learning\nUnderstand the importance of psychological safety in improving skills and team performance\nSee how coaching cards can be used to discuss and self-assess working practices\n\nTesting United\nTesting United is a testing conference aimed at all levels of testers\, test leads\, test managers\, test consultants and IT employees that come in daily contact with testing teams. The conference unites experts from the extended central Europe region\, and thus expands on this idea by periodically rotating the venue between Vienna\, Prague and Bratislava since 2018. \nWith this year’s main topic “2023: Tester’s place in Universe\, Metaverse & Beyond“\, experienced speakers will outline the changes testing community is facing.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/improving-testing-skills-practices-gamification-testing-united-2023/
LOCATION:Refinery Gallery Bratislava\, Vlčie hrdlo\, Bratislava\, 821 07\, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
CATEGORIES:Conference,online,Slovakia
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SUMMARY:Workshop Fostering an Agile Culture
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can practice culture change\, learn how to increase team autonomy and morale\, and explore using retrospectives to keep your agile journey going smoothly. Join me on September 11\, 2023\, for the live workshop Fostering an Agile Culture. \nA one-day online workshop for €350 + VAT. \nFostering an Agile Culture\nAdopting agile often doesn’t live up to its promise of delivering better products\, faster\, at lower costs. The missing ingredients that cause failure often have to do with an insufficient agile mindset and difficulties in changing to a culture of agile thinking and acting. An agile culture is a foundation for an agile way of working and a successful agile journey\, it is a key factor that you need to work on. \nIn this workshop\, we’ll explore how organizations can visualize their culture. We learn how organizations can foster a mindset and culture change toward agility and how they can apply agile practices and capabilities to deliver value frequently and fast. \nNext\, we’ll explore how team autonomy and morale can be increased by playing the Agile Impediment Board Game. Finally\, we’ll see how agile retrospectives can be used to establish continuous improvement with effective communication and collaboration\, to keep your agile journey going in the right direction. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nVisualize your existing agile culture and see the need and possibilities for culture change\nShare agile strengths and challenges to explore what it takes for an agile culture and mindset\nExperience how gamification can be used to improve the team’s autonomy and morale\nPractice retrospective techniques to reflect and find ways to improve your agile journey\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore how to create conditions for culture change and use this to increase the agility of organizations. \nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live online workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, 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 the exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancellations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAttendees of this workshop will get free downloadable copies of the Culture Cards and the Impediment Board Game (value €25). \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-fostering-an-agile-culture-sep-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Improve Organizational Agility,online,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices
DESCRIPTION:An interactive online workshop where you can practice your problem-solving skills and learn how to deal with agile impediments. Join me on September 18\, 2023\, for the live workshop Problem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices. \nA one-day workshop for €350 + VAT. \n \nProblem Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\nTeams will face problems in their daily work. Agile calls these problems impediments. Impediments can be something in the way of working\, be it processes\, tools\, or organizational rules or structures. They slow down teams or block the delivery of products or services. \nTeams need to be able to deal with impediments as they have an impact on the flow of work\, they are problems that reduce outputs and results. \nAgile brings problems to the surface and provides solutions for addressing them. In the workshop Problems Solving with Agile Thinking and Practices\, you will learn how to recognize\, analyze\, and solve problems effectively and faster using agile thinking and practices. \nLearning by Doing\nYou will practice: \n\nRecognizing signals of problems\, and creating safety in teams for people to bring up problems\nAnalyzing problems picking one technique: causal analysis\, blameless post-mortems\, retrospectives\, swarming\, or blocker analysis\nManaging impediments using techniques from Lean & Kanban; decide how to solve them and who should be involved\nUsing coaching and games to improve collaboration and develop problem-solving skills\n\nAudience\nThis workshop is intended for: \n\nAgile Teams.\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProduct Owners and Project/Line Managers\nStakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in agile transformations\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore how to handle impediments effectively and faster and practice our problem-solving skills. \nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome able to create a blameless culture where signals are spotted more easily and problems are brought up sooner\nDevelop your skills for analyzing problems to get a deep understanding\nExplore ways to take action and follow up to remove problems or mitigate the impact\nLearn how to collaboratively deal with impediments in your team and organization\nExplore ways to prevent problems from happening again in the future\n\nPractical information\nFour-hour interactive live workshop. \nYou can book this workshop by buying a ticket below\, 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 the exercises and play the games to be fully involved and engaged. \nCancellations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nAttendees of this workshop will get a free ebook copy of Problem? What problem? – Dealing Effectively with Impediments using Agile Thinking with Problem-solving Practices and a downloadable copy of the Impediment Board Game (value €30). \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-problem-solving-with-agile-thinking-and-practices-sep-2023/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:online,Workshop
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