Workshop Making Agile Valuable at CraftConf 2017
Learn how to apply the agile mindset, principles and practices to increase the value delivered by your people, teams, and organization.
Learn how to apply the agile mindset, principles and practices to increase the value delivered by your people, teams, and organization.
Join the Lean IT Summit, March 14-15 in Paris, France, to discover how Lean can be an inspiring model for IT Leaders - I will cover the IT Summit for InfoQ.
Agile suggests that teams should continuously deliver value to their customers and stakeholders. But to do that teams need to know what value is for their customers, and how to quantify it.
Becoming agile is a journey of continuous improvement. To travel it well, you need to think about where you want to go and how to travel it. The backpacking retrospective exercise can be used by teams and organizations to visualize their path to agility and decide what they will take along on their journey.
The Agile Consortium Belgium organizes their yearly event, the topic is From Agile IT to Enterprise Agility. I will cover the event for InfoQ.
Je kunt agile zien als een reis, een Agile Journey waarin mensen samen op weg gaan om betere resultaten te bereiken. Een gezamenlijk doel helpt om de richting te bepalen en te zien of je op de juiste weg bent en vooruit komt.
The Agile Self-Assessment Game helps teams to discover how agile they are and what you can do to increase their agility. I played this game at the XP Days Benelux conference. Here's how this went.
Valuable Agile Retrospectives are coming to Czech Republic! On December 1 I'm giving my successful workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives in Kladno (near Prague). There are some seats left for this workshop. Don't wait too long; register yourself on the Aguarra Agile Center of Excellence website.
Vandaag is de paperback editie van Agile in de Echte Wereld - Starten met Scrum gepubliceerd. Het boek bevat een hoofdstuk wat Derk-Jan de Grood en ik samen geschreven hebben: Agile Retrospectives – Het geeft niet als er iets fout gaat.
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.
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.