The ability to write effective user stories enables teams to delivering the right products fast. This post provides several checklists for writing effective user stories and features the perfection game, a technique for giving feedback and providing improvement suggestions to improve your user stories.
I'm developing an expansion pack for DevOps for the Agile Self-Assessment Game, and I'm looking for reviewers to improve the cards. Will you help me?
In this guest blog post Emile Bakker, the product/market coach, talks about what makes a good Product Owner. Hint: It's all about coaching!
The first version of the Czech edition of my Agile Retrospectives book has been released on Leanpub. With this release there are now 10 translated editions of my successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives.
Nowadays most agile teams do retrospectives which help them to deal with difficult situations and improve their way of working. But teams don't work in isolation, they interact with other teams and with their stakeholders to deliver value. Let's explore how retrospectives beyond the team level can be used to improve collaboration.
I'm returning to Lithuania to give the Masterclass Improving your Agile and Lean Transformation on May 2 in Vilnius. Ticket sales has started, book your seat at Masterclasses.lt.
In this masterclass you will experience Agile and Lean practices for teams and stakeholders with advice on how to deploy them and integrate them into your existing processes, and tips and tricks to become more agile and lean.
The book The Great ScrumMaster by Zuzana Šochová provides lots of ideas to help Scrum masters deal with everyday situations. Here are 15 quotes from this book to tweet.
My highly popular Agile Self-assessment Game is now also available in French. All 52 cards and the mini instruction cards have been translated by Fabrice Aimetti (instructions are still in English).
The recording of the webinar on keeping retrospectives fresh that I gave on March 8 has been published. You can also download the slides on keeping retrospectives fresh.
If there's one technique that has helped me and many of my customers to effectively deal with situations and get results, it's visualization. Here's how this agile practice works.
In Q1 and Q2 of 2017 I'm again giving several agile workshops. As my workshops can sell out, my advice is to get your ticket while there are still seats available (some are selling quite fast).