I was contacted by Srijan to contribute my expertise to an round up post on distributed agile best practices. As I'm always looking for ways to share my experience I agreed. Little did I know at the time who else they asked to contribute. Here's how I ended up.
Here's another guest blog post on BenLinders.com which explores good practices for implementing Kanban, written by Nishanth Appaiah Mittu. Enjoy!
A question I often get during my talks and workshops is if you need to do agile retrospectives if the team feels that everything is going well. Short answer is yes, improving yourself never stops. Let's explore how you can do valuable agile retrospectives with teams where everything goes well.
The Vietnamese edition Khai thác giá trị Agile Retrospective has been released on Leanpub. With this release there are now 9 translated editions of the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives available.
I gave two well received talks at Agile Tour Beirut, one about how to become a better Scrum master and one on doing valuable agile retrospectives to continuously increase your agility. The slides of these talks can be downloaded from my presentations page.
In the opening keynote at Agile Tour Kaunas I presented the need for continuous improvement in agile. I explained why we need to uncover better ways to continuously improve, and how agile helps us doing that to deliver more value.
RFG 2017 is a small invitation only gathering, which provides for an opportunity for very focused and high-density learning on Agile Retrospectives.
Servant leadership alone is not enough, Scrum masters need to know a variety of leadership styles to support agile teams and help them to deliver value.
I will give two talk on October 15 at Agile Tour Beirut, one about how to become a better Scrum master and one on valuable retrospectives.
My successful blog post "Why do you want to become agile?" has been translated to German: Warum wollen Sie eigentlich agil werden?
The book Managing for Happiness by Jurgen Appelo gives you many practices, games, and tools that you can use to manage organizations effectively and make work fun.
The agile and lean tool Agile Self-assessments provides 55+ checklists, tools and articles that you can use to self-assess your agility.