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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220919
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SUMMARY:Workshop Develop Better Products with Agile - Live Online
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to develop better products using agile practices to understand your customers\, develop iteratively\, deliver faster with better quality\, and get valuable product feedback on September 19-20\, 2022! \nA two-day workshop for €750.  \nDevelop Better Products with Agile\nMany teams are adopting an agile way of working\, for instance with Scrum. Their expectation is that agile will help them to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs\, be more flexible\, and deliver faster. Unfortunately\, it doesn’t always work that way. Working in teams and collaborating with your customers to get feedback is hard. It’s not about doing Scrum\, it’s about effectively using agile practices to deliver value faster. \nIn the workshop Develop Better Products with Agile you will practice agile and learn how to apply it effectively: \n\nPractice understanding and prioritizing customer’s needs.\nWork in small teams to develop products iteratively.\nLearn to gather valuable feedback with product reviews and demos.\nSee how to improve your way of working with agile retrospectives.\nFind out how to effectively apply agile practices with an agile mindset.\n\nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you deliver the right products faster. \nIf your team(s) are \n\nfinding it difficult to understand your customer’s needs to decide on what to deliver when\nnot delivering working software or not able to finish user stories within a reasonable time\nnot getting feedback from customers and unsure if you are delivering value to your customers\nhaving difficulties communicating and working together as a self-organized team\ndoing agile/Scrum/Kanban rituals but feeling that they are not always helpful\nhaving difficulty to reflect and learn and get good actions out of your retrospective\n\nthen this is the workshop for you! \nLearning by Doing\nThe practices that you will be using in the workshop Develop Better Products with Agile will help you to develop the right products for your business and customers\, reduce your delivery time\, increase the quality of your software products\, and become a collaborative high-performing team. \nYou will practice: \n\nCommunicating with customers to build a backlog and slice it into small product pieces to deliver\nPrioritize delivery using criteria like value\, risk\, learning\, debt\, dependencies\, etc\nCollaborating remotely to create products\nDoing demo and feedback sessions to find out what customers think of your product\nFacilitating retrospectives to learn and improve product development skills\n\nAudience\nThe workshop Develop Better Products with Agile is intended for: \n\n(Senior) Developers\, Architects\, UI/UX designers\, and Testers\nProduct Owners/managers\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nProject/Line Managers\n(Business) Stakeholders working with agile teams\nAgile and Lean Coaches\nAnybody who is supporting teams in increasing their performance\n\nKey-Learnings\n\nBecome better at understanding what your customers really need\nSkills for prioritizing product development to deliver more value faster\nAbility to do product reviews/demos to get valuable feedback\nWays to reflect and learn to increase the performance of your teams\n\nPractical information\nTwo-day\, four-hour per day 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. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \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 spend; organizations get value for their money!
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/workshop-develop-better-products-agile-live-online-september-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Making Agile Work,online,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220923
DTSTAMP:20260508T095543
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SUMMARY:Remote Retrospectives & Increasing Agility: Workshops at Better Ways Conference
DESCRIPTION:I’m giving two half-day workshops\, Better ways to Facilitate Remote Retrospectives & Exploring Better ways to Increase Agility\, on September 22 at the Better Ways conference in Athens\, Greece. \nLearn how you can run remote retrospectives\, practice online exercises that involve everyone\, and gain insight into psychological safety in distributed retrospectives in the workshop Better ways to Facilitate Remote Retrospectives. \nAgile Self-assessments – Exploring Better ways to Increase Agility is where you experience how to assess your agility using gamification. You’ll learn how to play games and facilitate coaching exercises that will help you to uncover better ways of working in your teams. \nYou can book individual or bother workshops (with a discount): Workshops at Better Ways Conference. \n \n \nWorkshop: Better ways to Facilitate Remote Retrospectives\nAgile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve by reflecting to learn what is going well and what can be improved\, and to do improvement actions. Retrospective facilitators need to have a toolbox of retrospective exercises and the skills to design and facilitate remote agile retrospectives. \nRemote retrospectives pose extra challenges due to not having people in one physical room for the retrospective: \n\nRecognizing and dealing with retrospective smells or anti-patterns is hard in online meetings (but it can be done!)\nIt’s more difficult to foster productive and collaborative behavior and keep everyone involved during the retrospective\nNot physically being together calls for different retrospective exercises and innovative ways to do exercises online\nPsychological safety is a key issue in any retrospective\, it’s even more challenging when people collaborate remotely\n\nIn the workshop Better ways to Facilitate Remote Retrospectives\, we will practice doing remote retrospectives while fostering psychological safety using exercises that keep people involved. We’ll learn how to recognize and deal with smells and foster collaboration toward effective actions as a retrospective outcome. \nTarget audience\n\nRetrospective Facilitators\nTechnical (team) leaders and Scrum masters\nAgile (Scrum) 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. \nLearning objectives\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 running remote retrospectives\nPractice different exercises for distributed retrospectives using online tools\nLearn about psychological safety in online meetings and what can be done to keep people involved\n\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 over €30). \nWorkshop: Agile Self-assessments – Exploring Better ways to Increase Agility\nIn the workshop Agile Self-assessments – Exploring Better ways to Increase Agility\, you will practice games and exercises to explore how agile your teams are and what can be done to increase your agility. \nWe’ll be playing The Agile Self-Assessment Game\, a serious game used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing this game enables professionals to reflect on collaboration and team interworking and engage in the next steps for their agile journey. With this game\, professionals can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. \nYou’ll learn how to create an “agile map” using an invitation-based gamification approach. A map that inspires you with ideas for increasing your agility and suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. \nIn this workshop\, you will experience different playing formats of The Agile Self-assessment Game. You’ll hear about the importance of pre-selecting cards to create focused coaching card decks and find out about different exercises that can be used to self-assess and play your agile journey. \nThe workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you to increase your agility. \nTarget audience\n\nAgile (Scrum) 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\nThe practices in this workshop will help you to explore your way of working and take the next steps on your agile journey. \nLearning objectives\nWhat will you get out of this workshop: \n\nExplore what agile and agility means and the benefits that they can bring\nUnderstand the power of engagement and invitation-based agile adoption approaches\nExperience how you can self-assess the agility of teams and organizations\nPlay the Agile Self-assessment Game using different playing formats and card decks\nLearn ways for planning and traveling your own agile journey\n\nThe workshop Assessing your Agility is based on the Agile Self-assessment Game. All attendees will get a free downloadable copy of the Agile Self-Assessment Game and the ebook ‘The Agile Self-assessment Game’ (value over €30). \nPractical information\nThese are half-day workshops\, four-hour in-person interactive workshops. \nYou can book individual or bother workshops (with a discount): Workshops at Better Ways Conference\, or by contacting me by email at benlinders@gmail.com. \nTickets are limited to ensure that all attendees can play the games and get fully involved and engaged. \nCancelations are allowed until one week before the workshop is held. If you can’t attend then a colleague can use your ticket to join. \nTickets\nYou can buy a ticket for one of the workshops or a combi ticket for both workshops: \n\nOne four-hour workshop: €200 + VAT\nBoth workshops\, full day of training: €375 + VAT\n\n \nIf you want to attend with two or more persons from the same company\, please contact me at benlinders@gmail.com. \nTrainer: Ben Linders\nBen Linders runs a one-person business in Agile\, Lean\, Quality\, and Continuous Improvement. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives\, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives\, What Drives Quality and Continuous Improvement. \nAs a trainer\, facilitator\, coach\, and advisor\, he helps organizations to improve continuously by applying 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. \nWorkshops by Ben Linders\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.
URL:https://www.benlinders.com/event/remote-retrospectives-increasing-agility-workshops-at-better-ways-conference/
CATEGORIES:Assess Agility,Conference,Greece,Retrospectives Agility,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220928
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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 27\, 2022\, for the live workshop Fostering an Agile Culture. \nA one-day workshop for €450. \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 workshop of 4 hours. \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-agile-culture-sep-2022/
LOCATION:Online\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Improve Organizational Agility,online,Workshop
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