Becoming agile is a journey of continuous improvement. To travel it well, you need to think about where you want to go and how to travel it. The backpacking retrospective exercise can be used by teams and organizations to visualize their path to agility and decide what they will take along on their journey.
I’m returning to QCon London in 2017 to give a workshop on Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams on Thursday March 9.
Here are some recently published books that I highly recommend on giving and receiving feedback, starting and scaling DevOps in the enterprise, the practice of System and Network Administration, and Large Scale Scrum: More with LeSS.
The Agile Consortium Belgium organizes their yearly event, the topic is From Agile IT to Enterprise Agility. I will cover the event for InfoQ.
Je kunt agile zien als een reis, een Agile Journey waarin mensen samen op weg gaan om betere resultaten te bereiken. Een gezamenlijk doel helpt om de richting te bepalen en te zien of je op de juiste weg bent en vooruit komt.
Warm-up exercises are used at the start of a retrospective to get teams ready to explore and learn. They set the stage for agile retrospectives by creating an atmosphere where team members can be open and honest about what has happened.
My article Facilitating Effective Agile Retrospectives is featured in the 2016 DZone Guide to Software Development Lifecycle: QA and Testing.
I will give a talk about Spicing up Agile Retrospectives at Topconf Linz 2017.
In veel organisaties wordt de kennis en kunde van de professionals niet benut bij het doen van verbeteringen. De verbeteringen worden eerst uitgewerkt en daarna met een verbeterprogramma doorgevoerd. Pas bij de invoering horen de medewerkers wat er moet veranderen, en vaak ook hoe ze hun werk moeten gaan doen. En dan gaat het mis. Dat kan en moet anders. Mijn advies: Ga samen met je medewerkers verbeteren, benut de professionals in je organisatie.
The European Testing Conference is about getting experts and practitioners together to talk, learn and practice the art of testing. We’re looking into advanced new methods into making our testing more effective, as well as enrich our understanding of fundamental methods to grow a stronger community.
A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams. I will be covering the QCon London conference for InfoQ.
The Agile Self-Assessment Game helps teams to discover how agile they are and what you can do to increase their agility. I played this game at the XP Days Benelux conference. Here's how this went.