I recently received a question whether Product Owners should participate in agile retrospectives. An interesting discussion took off about how "it should be by the book" and "common sense" which I have summarized in the below blog post.
A new chapter which explores how agile software development can be deployed to deliver high quality software has been added to my second book What Drives Quality.
Regularly I get questions if you can measure defects and if you should measure them. The short answer is: You can measure them, and it can have value to do so, but only if you take action. Quality matters, and defects can provide you with valuable information about the quality of your product, but measuring alone doesn't improve quality. You need to dive deeper to have a good understanding and then act upon that.
In April and May I'm giving several workshops on Agile in Eastern Europe. Tickets are on sale for these workshops, don't wait too long!
We've teamed up with the Agile Retrospective Kickstarter book to help you to do better retrospectives. Retrospectives that your teams love to do, that will help them to improve and deliver value to their customers and stakeholders.
Who should be handling and solving impediments? Should it be the Scrum master? The team as a whole! Their agile coach? I prefer that team members recognize and solve impediments themselves. For most of them they don't need a Scrum master or coach. So if they see a problem, I expect team members to take action and solve it.
I gave a well received keynote about Continuous Improvement in Agile at 1st conference in Melbourne, Australia. In this talk I explained the need for continuous improvement when adopting agile ways of working, explored how continuous improvement is engrained in agile, and what you can do to increase the agility of your teams and the organization as a whole.
The list with the 100 Top Agile blogs in 2015 has been published, and I'm proud to say that I'm listed (again). Find out more about the services that I provide, like advice, workshops, consultancy, training and (keynote) talks at conferences.
The Agile Cymru 2016 conference will be held on July 5th and 6th in Cardiff, Wales. Early bird tickets are on sale now and the deadline is the end of the month. You'll be saving £100 per ticket if you sign up before the end of March.
Two great books on agile retrospectives are now available in the book bundle rétrospectives agiles on Leanpub: Tirer profit des rétrospectives agiles by Luis Gonçalves and Ben Linders and Donnez un coup de fouet à vos Rétrospectives Agile by Alexey Krivitsky.
Als een organisatie besluit om agile in te voeren dan wordt er vaak ook gesproken over doelen. Mijn ervaring is dat agile als doel stellen niet werkt, agile is een middel dat kan helpen om effectiever te worden en daarmee dichter bij je doel te komen. Goed omgaan met doelen speelt wel een belangrijke rol bij het behalen van succes en resultaten met agile. Doelen en agile, hoe werkt dat? Hier zijn mijn tips.
Agile teams use retrospectives to reflect, learn, and adapt their way of working. Facilitating retrospectives matters, it's important to have a skilled facilitator to assure that retrospectives become effective. Let's explore 7 good practices and tips that facilitators can use to help teams to get more value out of their agile retrospectives.