New Book on Continuous Improvement

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.

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#NoEstimates Book

The book No Estimates - How to measure project progress without estimating by Vasco Duarte from Oikosofy has been released. Three different packages are available: Only the book, the book with additional video interviews with #NoEstimates pioneers and an "all you can eat digital edition".

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Exploring Strengths with Core Qualities

Teams can improve their way of working by exploring their strengths using a core qualities exercise in their agile retrospectives. The exercise described in this blog post, which is based on ideas from positive psychology and Solution Focused, helps team to become even better in things that they are great at. It enables them to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders.

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Retrospective Prime Directive in many languages

The retrospective prime directive is a sentence that is used by facilitators to establish safety in a retrospective meeting. Safety is crucial if you want people to speak up and be open, which is an important precondition to reflect and learn which is what agile retrospectives are all about. Since our book is being translated into many languages we now have translations of this unique and important statement.

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