Attend my workshop Getting More out of Agile & Lean in Melbourne, Australia to learn practices for teams and their stakeholders to develop the right products, deliver faster, increase quality, and create happy high performing teams.
Agile Consortium will host an evening seminar on leadership fit for the 21st century. David Marquet, author of the award winning book Turn the Ship Around, will present his keynote on Intent-Based Leadership, as part of an interesting evening program.
The full version of the Russian edition Извлекаем пользу из Agile-ретроспектив has been released on Leanpub. With this release there are now 8 translated editions of the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives available. (more…)
Van het boek Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives zijn inmiddels ruim meer dan 100 exemplaren in omloop. Om dat te vieren zijn er 10 gratis exemplaren beschikbaar van dit boek in ebook formaat! (more…)
When you're facing problems and feel that there's no room for improvement, the situation will only get worse. You're building up process debt, a debt that you will have to repay as soon as possible to prevent from going bankrupt. Let's explore how you can deal with process debt by taking a first step on a journey of continuous improvement to increase your agility.
The Agile Practitioners conference is the agile conference for the agile community by the agile community. Conference theme for 2016 is Hands-on agility.
I will do the full day tutorial Make Your Agile Retrospectives More Valuable at the Agile Practitioners conference in Tel Aviv on January 26. Ticket sales has started, click here to register. (more…)
The agile and lean tool agile/Scrum certification provides an overview of the most important agile and Scrum certifications that are being offered by different institutes. (more…)
Op 13 november geef ik een presentatie over de Why, What and How of Agile Retrospectives op de Lean Kanban Benelux (LKBX) conferentie in Heeze: (more…)
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.
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
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.