Leren en Continu Verbeteren in Agile

Het Agile Manifesto beschrijft dat teams frequent reflecteren om hun effectiviteit te verbeteren. Je kunt Agile Retrospectives gebruiken om te leren van hoe dingen nu gaan en de manier van werken in Agile-teams aan te passen om continu te verbeteren. Dit eerste artikel van een serie over agile retrospectives geeft een introductie in retrospectives en beschrijft hoe je kunt zorgen voor veiligheid zodat mensen open en eerlijk kunnen zijn.

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Multiple copies of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives

Valuable Agile Retrospecives Multiple CopiesDo you want multiple copies of our ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives? For every member of your team, the whole department or company? Or to use it at school or at your university for students to learn about doing valuable retrospectives. You can now get multiple copies by buying an ebook package on Leanpub. (more…)

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Chapter on Sustainable Pace added to Continuous Improvement eBook

A chapter about Sustainable Pace has been added to my new book Continuous Improvement – Doing whatever helps to become better and thus more valuable: Agile promotes that teams work in a sustainable pace to deliver value to their customers. When teams are working under too much pressure, technical debt will increase and velocity of teams will go down. Under such circumstances it will be almost impossible to do any improvement. A sustainable pace is an essential condition to enable team to improve continuously. This book 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 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’…

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Cruciale Dialogen als sleutel voor Continue Verbetering

Via twitter kwam in contact met Johan Roels. In zijn boek Cruciale Dialogen herken ik veel dingen vanuit mijn ervaring met continue verbetering in organisaties. Het vlindermodel wat Johan heeft gedefinieerd in zijn boek verbindt communicatie met waardering om oplossingen voor problemen te zoeken en die vervolgens effectief te implementeren.

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Sign up for the Turkish and Greek book editions

World_RetroValueTwo new teams have started to translate the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives to Turkish and Greek. The books will first become available on Leanpub. You can sign-up now to show that you are interested in a book and to receive the first edition of that book with a significant discount:

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