Spark the Change is about an organisation’s ability to be responsive, innovative and harness the energy of its employees. It brings together leaders from across the business to explore how they can work together to create lasting and total change. will cover this conference for InfoQ.
Ik zie regelmatig organisaties die besluiten dat ze agile en lean in willen voeren. Wat mij betreft een prima ontwikkeling, gezien de voordelen die een agile en lean werkwijze kan bieden. Waar het echter vaak mis gaat, is de manier waarop managers besluiten om agile en lean in te voeren: Top down, vooraf gepland, en met te weinig inbreng van de professionals. Dat moet en kan anders.
The Software-Centric Systems Conference facilitates the exchange of knowledge and experiences in the crucial and strategic discipline of complex software development.
I chaired a session about getting into reflection mode at the Retrospective Facilitators Gathering 2016. In this session we discussed what facilitators can do to help people to look back and reflect in an agile / Scrum retrospective meeting or at other occasion where they want to learn from how they are doing.
Op 21 juni geef ik de workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives in Utrecht. In deze succesvolle workshop leer je de waarom, wat en hoe van retrospectives en oefen je in teams met diverse manieren om retrospectives uit te voeren.
The XP Days program committee has accepted my workshop "Agile Self-Assessment Game" for the XP Days Benelux 2016 conference. How cool is that!
In this interactive workshop you can practice different exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to facilitate retrospectives. You will learn the “what” and “why” of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they can bring for your team.
Agile teams use product backlogs to manage their requirements. Product owners prioritize the user stories. To enable delivering products with sufficient quality agile teams need to have user stories that are ready at the start of an iteration.
I gave a talk about The Road to Agility at the 7th Agile Eastern Europe (#AgileEE) conference in Kiev, Ukraine. This was the second time that I presented at AgileEE, I was invited back by the organizers after giving a talk on Sustainable Improvement through Agile Retrospectives in 2015.
I will be covering the GOTO Amsterdam conference for InfoQ. GOTO Amsterdam is a practitioner-driven enterprise software development conference designed for team leads, architects, and project management and is organized "for developers by developers".
I regularly get questions on agile retrospectives, which I'm more than happy to answer. In this blog post I'll discuss the question that I got from someone who attended one of my workshops on valuable agile retrospectives. He was planning a retrospective with a new team, and wanted my advice on which exercise to use and how to facilitate the retrospective.
In Agile retrospectives gebruik je oefeningen waarmee je als team kunt verbeteren. Het boek Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives bevat 13 oefeningen die je in retrospectives kunt toepassen. Deze blog post beschrijft een nieuwe retrospective oefening die gebruikt kan worden om de kwaliteiten van (Scrum) teams zichtbaar te maken, ze te bespreken en vervolgens te kijken hoe je ze kunt benutten.