Agile

New Book on Continuous Improvement

My new book Continuous Improvement - Doing whatever helps to become better and thus more valuable 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 what makes agile work. It's at the heart of agile: a mindset and a way of working where people always look for ways to do things better. 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' Leanpub page. Feedback on this new book is very much appreciated. Please sent your suggestions, comments, ideas or questions to [email protected]. Also feel free to contact me if you are interested to receive a review copy.

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Slides on Agile Retrospectives published

The slides from my recent talks on Agile Retrospectives have been published on slideshare: Spicing up Agile Retrospectives – Agile Tour London 2015 Why What and How of Agile Retrospectives – Agile Tour Lille 2015 Why what and how of Agile Retrospectives – Agile Greece Summit 2015 There's a page with Presentations by Ben Linders where you view and download the slides of all of my public talks and keynotes, from conferences, meetups, or other occasions. And there's also a page with Interviews with Ben Linders. Finally there's a list of my future public events, workshops and talks. If you want me to appear at your event, or have a need for advice, consultancy, training or workshops, then feel free to contact me.  +31 6 2901 3863  [email protected]  @BenLinders  Ben Linders  Ben Linders Consulting  Tilburg, The Netherlands

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Software Quality is Free

In 1980 Philip Crosby wrote the book Quality is Free. In the book he explained how investing time and energy in building the right products with good quality will save money and time. Many agile teams know how important software quality is, but they need to convince their managers and other stakeholders to get there. It will help them to self-organize and do their work in a good way. Let's explore how you can sell that "quality is free" and build a business case for quality.

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