In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Istanbul on May 31 you will try out different retrospective exercises and learn how to effectively facilitate retrospectives in agile teams.
Version 1.3 of the Agile Self-assessment Game is now available. The texts on the cards have been updated based on my experience from playing the game and feedback from the agile community.
Here are some recently published books that I highly recommend on Scaling Teams, Product Mastery, Great Scrum Masters #ScrumMasterWay, and Agile Engagement.
I'm giving two Agile Workshops in Budapest on April 25 and 26. Only some seats are left, so don't wait and get your tickets now!
Agile retrospectives are essential for teams to learn and improve themselves. Retrium is organizing the 1st annual Agile Retrospectives survey which I highly recommend.
Priorities are essential if you want to quickly deliver value. But they only work if they are visible for the team and product owner to assure that they are aligned on what needs to be done. Here's my story about how visualizing priorities helped a team to deliver more value.
The State of Testing 2017 report has been published. I’m on the board of advisers for this survey and highly recommend reading it!
The ability to write effective user stories enables teams to delivering the right products fast. This post provides several checklists for writing effective user stories and features the perfection game, a technique for giving feedback and providing improvement suggestions to improve your user stories.
I'm developing an expansion pack for DevOps for the Agile Self-Assessment Game, and I'm looking for reviewers to improve the cards. Will you help me?
In this guest blog post Emile Bakker, the product/market coach, talks about what makes a good Product Owner. Hint: It's all about coaching!
The first version of the Czech edition of my Agile Retrospectives book has been released on Leanpub. With this release there are now 10 translated editions of my successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives.
Nowadays most agile teams do retrospectives which help them to deal with difficult situations and improve their way of working. But teams don't work in isolation, they interact with other teams and with their stakeholders to deliver value. Let's explore how retrospectives beyond the team level can be used to improve collaboration.