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.
The Polish and Russian editions of my successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives are now available in my webshop. With these additions the webshop now provides nine languages editions of my book with retrospective exercises.
Silver bullets bestaan niet in softwareontwikkeling. Effectieve softwareteams bepalen zelf hoe ze hun werk doen, passen zich continu aan en verbeteren zichzelf. Continue verbetering is ingebed in de Agile-mindset en -principes en helpt zo om de flexibiliteit in bedrijven te verhogen en meer waarde te leveren.
A good facilitator support teams in doing analysis, reflection and deciding on the actions. An independent facilitator doesn't not have an own agenda of improvements, but is focused on helping teams decide on those actions that are best for the team.
I was contacted by Srijan to contribute my expertise to an round up post on distributed agile best practices. As I'm always looking for ways to share my experience I agreed. Little did I know at the time who else they asked to contribute. Here's how I ended up.
Here's another guest blog post on BenLinders.com which explores good practices for implementing Kanban, written by Nishanth Appaiah Mittu. Enjoy!
A question I often get during my talks and workshops is if you need to do agile retrospectives if the team feels that everything is going well. Short answer is yes, improving yourself never stops. Let's explore how you can do valuable agile retrospectives with teams where everything goes well.
The Vietnamese edition Khai thác giá trị Agile Retrospective has been released on Leanpub. With this release there are now 9 translated editions of the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives available.
I gave two well received talks at Agile Tour Beirut, one about how to become a better Scrum master and one on doing valuable agile retrospectives to continuously increase your agility. The slides of these talks can be downloaded from my presentations page.