Becoming agile can help to achieve organizational goals. But setting agile as a goal for an organization does not work. The goal for a software organization should be to achieve results by delivering valuable products and services, not to become agile. Hence my question: do you know why do you want to become agile?
All of the books that I have published on Leanpub are now available in a bundle: Books by Ben Linders. You get a 30% discount when you buy my books.
I'm giving two masterclasses at Agile Tour Kaunas on October 11 and 12 on Retrospectives and on Agile and Lean. Tickets for these agile workshops can be bought on the Agile Tour Lithuania courses webpage.
The book More Fearless Change by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising provides ideas for driving change in organizations, using the format of patterns. Here’s a set of 15 quotes from the new patterns that have been added in More Fearless Change.
A new bundle of books with agile practices and tips has been released on Leanpub. Buy these books with a 40% discount! The bundle includes six great books from eleven authors, helping you to make your agile journey easier to travel, more successful, and fun!
Het manifest voor agile veranderen helpt organisaties om hun agility te verhogen. Het zorgt voor blijvende verbetering van de resultaten, tevreden klanten, en blije medewerkers. Dit eerste artikel over Agile Veranderen beschijft de uitgangspunten en waarden met behulp van het manifest voor agile veranderen.
AgileHubNoord heeft mij uitgenodigd om in hun meetup op 21 september een mini-workshop te geven over agile retrospectives.
The successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives has been translated in many languages. The leanpub bundle Valuable Agile Retrospectives - All Languages contains all language editions, you can get 9 books for the reduced price of $24,99 (excluding VAT).
In this masterclass in Kaunas, Lithuania you will experience agile practices for teams and stakeholders with advice on how to deploy them, and tips and tricks to become more agile and lean.
As a trainer, (keynote) presenter, editor for InfoQ, and agile networker I go to conferences all around the world during the year. They are all different, each one has it's own strong points. Now I'd like to hear from you: What's your favorite agile conference? Please share your favorite agile conference by commenting on this post.
The Trello board retrospective techniques for coaches, Scrum masters, and other facilitators provides exercises and ideas to design agile retrospectives. Philip Rogers created this board, he has added me so that I can contribute my experience with retrospectives. (more…)
I will give two workshops in Kladno (near Prague) on Getting More out of Agile and Lean. In these workshops you'll learn practices to develop the right products for your business and customers, reduce your delivery time, increase the quality of your software, and create happy high performing teams.