Here are some recently published books that I highly recommend on giving and receiving feedback, starting and scaling DevOps in the enterprise, the practice of System and Network Administration, and Large Scale Scrum: More with LeSS.
The Agile Consortium Belgium organizes their yearly event, the topic is From Agile IT to Enterprise Agility. I will cover the event for InfoQ.
Warm-up exercises are used at the start of a retrospective to get teams ready to explore and learn. They set the stage for agile retrospectives by creating an atmosphere where team members can be open and honest about what has happened.
My article Facilitating Effective Agile Retrospectives is featured in the 2016 DZone Guide to Software Development Lifecycle: QA and Testing.
I will give a talk about Spicing up Agile Retrospectives at Topconf Linz 2017.
The European Testing Conference is about getting experts and practitioners together to talk, learn and practice the art of testing. We’re looking into advanced new methods into making our testing more effective, as well as enrich our understanding of fundamental methods to grow a stronger community.
A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams. I will be covering the QCon London conference for InfoQ.
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.
I'm returning to QCon London in 2017 to give a workshop on valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams on Thursday March 9.
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.
If you want your retrospectives to be valuable you have to make retrospective actions stick. Effective retrospectives have lasting impact in organizations, they lead to changed behavior that sticks without any reinforcement. Having a diverse and multidisciplinary team helps to make retrospective actions stick.
The first version of the Greek edition of our Agile Retrospectives book, Αποκομίζοντας αξία από τα Agile Retrospectives, has been released on Leanpub. This version contains eleven chapters and includes two retrospective exercises. It's the official translation of our successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives.