In this workshop you will learn different exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they can bring you.
Although the steps described in the series of posts on dealing with impediments sound rather straightforward and easy, solving impediments is often perceived as stressful and difficult by many people. In the previous posts I described how you can recognize and understand impediments, find effective solutions, and decide what to do to solve them. This last post explores what you can do to become more effective in dealing with impediments.
People often ask me what to do to prevent that teams get bored when doing agile retrospectives for a longer period. The short answer is: Make sure that you are getting value from doing your retrospectives. 5 practical tips that will assure that you keep getting value from your agile retrospectives.
After you've come up with several solutions to deal with an impediment, the next step is to decide which actions you will do with your team to solve it. Let's dive into who decides to take action and explore different approaches for how agile teams can decide.
I will be doing two more workshops in Sydney during my Australian tour in February: Workshop Increasing Organisational Agility with Retrospectives on February 11 Workshop Getting More out of Agile and Lean on February 12 Next to Sydney I'm also visiting Melbourne on my Australian tour. I will give a keynote at 1stConf about The Need for Continuous Improvement in Agile and three workshops in Melbourne: Workshop Getting more out of Agile and Lean on February 16 Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams on February 18 Workshop Increasing Organisational Agility with Retrospectives on February 19 The workshops are done in collaboration with Elabor8. You can enter “thinksharp” at checkout to receive a discount on my workshops :-). Your can register yourself for the 1stConf and sign up for the workshops on eventbrite. If you want to know more about this workshop or any other workshops or training sessions, feel free to contact me. +31 6 2901 3863 [email protected] Ben Linders
In this workshop you will learn how to scale agile retrospectives, doing them with multiple teams from a project, product or organization, practice facilitation skills with different retrospective exercises, and learn how you can introduce and improve retrospectives. You will also learn to do agile self-assessments and readiness checks and to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to increase their agility.
Are you interested in learning practices for teams and their stakeholders to develop the right products, deliver faster, increase quality, and create happy high performing teams? Come to my workshop Getting more out of Agile & Lean in Sydney, Australia.
2016 has started, my wish for everybody is to make it a great year. So let’s focus on doing real improvement to make it happen!
Several workshops on agile retrospectives and increasing agile value have been planned in 2016. (more…)
In the previous posts in the series on handling impediments I explored why agile teams need to be able to deal with impediments, how you can recognize problems and what you can do to get a shared understanding of a problem in the team. This post will explain how you can find effective solution for solving impediments.
QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. I will be covering the QCon London conference for InfoQ with video interviews and news.
The Agile Consortium and Unicom are organizing the Scaling Agile for the Enterprise conference on February 4. Parallel with this event the DevOps Summit is held. Both conferences will be at the Herman Teirlinckauditorium at KBC Bank in Brussels, Belgium. I will be covering these one day conferences for InfoQ. (more…)
Do you want to know how agile you are? What you can do to increase your agility? The agile and lean tool Agile Self-assessments provides 50+ checklists, tools and articles that you can use to self-assess your agility. (more…)