DZone Guide to Software Development Lifecycle published
My article Facilitating Effective Agile Retrospectives is featured in the 2016 DZone Guide to Software Development Lifecycle: QA and Testing.
My article Facilitating Effective Agile Retrospectives is featured in the 2016 DZone Guide to Software Development Lifecycle: QA and Testing.
I will give a talk about Spicing up Agile Retrospectives at Topconf Linz 2017.
The European Testing Conference is about getting experts and practitioners together to talk, learn and practice the art of testing. We’re looking into advanced new methods into making our testing more effective, as well as enrich our understanding of fundamental methods to grow a stronger community.
The Agile Self-Assessment Game helps teams to discover how agile they are and what you can do to increase their agility. I played this game at the XP Days Benelux conference. Here's how this went.
I'm returning to QCon London in 2017 to give a workshop on valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams on Thursday March 9.
Valuable Agile Retrospectives are coming to Czech Republic! On December 1 I'm giving my successful workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives in Kladno (near Prague). There are some seats left for this workshop. Don't wait too long; register yourself on the Aguarra Agile Center of Excellence website.
If you want your retrospectives to be valuable you have to make retrospective actions stick. Effective retrospectives have lasting impact in organizations, they lead to changed behavior that sticks without any reinforcement. Having a diverse and multidisciplinary team helps to make retrospective actions stick.
A new bundle has been released on Leanpub: Retrospectivas ágiles. It contains three great books on Agile Retrospectives in Spanish which can now be bought with a fabulous discount.
Het einde van het jaar nadert. In veel organisaties is dat de tijd waarin de beoordelingsgesprekken worden gedaan. Ondanks de tijd en energie die er in beoordelingen geïnvesteerd wordt en de goede bedoeling leveren ze vaak maar weinig op. En als een organisatie agile gaat werken dan werkt een klassieke manier van beoordelen dat juist tegen. Het is tijd voor een betere aanpak: continue feedback.
Vandaag is de paperback editie van Agile in de Echte Wereld - Starten met Scrum gepubliceerd. Het boek bevat een hoofdstuk wat Derk-Jan de Grood en ik samen geschreven hebben: Agile Retrospectives – Het geeft niet als er iets fout gaat.
Non-verbal exercises can be used in agile retrospectives to "hear" from introverts and involve people who find it difficult to speak up in groups.
Agile retrospectives can be done in many different way, the Many Faces of Jack Sparrow is one example how to do them. I love it when people design new exercises that help people to reflect and learn, specially those exercises that help to explore and discuss feelings in teams. Here's a guest blog post on BenLinders.com from Corey Scholefield and Selina McGinnis in which they share their experiences from doing a retrospective exercise called Many Faces of Jack Sparrow.