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Workshop Increasing Organizational Agility with Retrospectives in Sydney, Australia

Post published:January 17, 2016

In this workshop you will learn how to scale agile retrospectives, doing them with multiple teams from a project, product or organization, practice facilitation skills with different retrospective exercises, and learn how you can introduce and improve retrospectives. You will also learn to do agile self-assessments and readiness checks and to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to increase their agility.

Workshop Getting more out of Agile & Lean in Sydney, Australia

Post published:January 17, 2016

Are you interested in learning practices for teams and their stakeholders to develop the right products, deliver faster, increase quality, and create happy high performing teams? Come to my workshop Getting more out of Agile & Lean in Sydney, Australia.

Multiple copies of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives

Post published:January 11, 2016

Do you want multiple copies of our ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives? For every member of your team, the whole department or company? Or to use it at school or at your university for students to learn about doing valuable retrospectives. You can now get multiple copies by buying an ebook package on Leanpub. (more…)

Chapter on Sustainable Pace added to Continuous Improvement eBook

Post published:January 8, 2016

A chapter about Sustainable Pace has been added to my new book Continuous Improvement – Doing whatever helps to become better and thus more valuable: Agile promotes that teams work in a sustainable pace to deliver value to their customers. When teams are working under too much pressure, technical debt will increase and velocity of teams will go down. Under such circumstances it will be almost impossible to do any improvement. A sustainable pace is an essential condition to enable team to improve continuously. This book is about increasing the awareness of continuous improvement and about how to improve in a sustainable way. It explores how improvement is engrained in agile, and provides suggestions that you can use in your daily work to improve continuously and increase your agility. Continuous Improvement is my third book. Earlier I published the books What Drives Quality and Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives. All of my books are available on Ben Linders’…

Workshops on Retrospectives and Increasing Agile Value

Post published:January 8, 2016

2016 has started, my wish for everybody is to make it a great year. So let’s focus on doing real improvement to make it happen!

Several workshops on agile retrospectives and increasing agile value have been planned in 2016. (more…)

Effectief Veranderen met Kanban

Post published:January 6, 2016

Bij een Kanban veranderaanpak gaat je uit van wat er is en start je bij de medewerkers. Je werkt bottom up om in kleine stapjes effectief te veranderen.

Handling Impediments: Effective Solutions

Post published:January 5, 2016

In the previous posts in the series on handling impediments I explored why agile teams need to be able to deal with impediments, how you can recognize problems and what you can do to get a shared understanding of a problem in the team. This post will explain how you can find effective solution for solving impediments.

QCon London 2016

Post published:January 4, 2016

QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. I will be covering the QCon London conference for InfoQ with video interviews and news.

Agile Retrospective Kickstarter added to the Retrospectives Books Bundle

Post published:January 4, 2016

The Agile Retrospectives Books Bundle has a new addition: Agile Retrospective Kickstarter by Alexey Krivitisky. (more…)

Scaling Agile and DevOps Summit in Brussels

Post published:January 2, 2016

The Agile Consortium and Unicom are organizing the Scaling Agile for the Enterprise conference on February 4. Parallel with this event the DevOps Summit is held. Both conferences will be at the Herman Teirlinckauditorium at KBC Bank in Brussels, Belgium. I will be covering these one day conferences for InfoQ. (more…)

Retrospective Facilitators Gathering 2016

Post published:January 2, 2016

The retrospectives facilitators gathering is a small invitation only gathering, which provides for an opportunity for very focused and high-density learning on agile retrospectives.

DevOps Summit Brussels

Post published:December 31, 2015

This one day DevOps Summit is designed to connect a wide range of stakeholders. The expert practitioners and thought leaders at this DevOps Summit will give help you to develop your business case and build the foundation towards getting significant return on investment.