Who should be handling and solving impediments? Should it be the Scrum master? The team as a whole! Their agile coach? I prefer that team members recognize and solve impediments themselves. For most of them they don't need a Scrum master or coach. So if they see a problem, I expect team members to take action and solve it.
I gave a well received keynote about Continuous Improvement in Agile at 1st conference in Melbourne, Australia. In this talk I explained the need for continuous improvement when adopting agile ways of working, explored how continuous improvement is engrained in agile, and what you can do to increase the agility of your teams and the organization as a whole.
The list with the 100 Top Agile blogs in 2015 has been published, and I'm proud to say that I'm listed (again). Find out more about the services that I provide, like advice, workshops, consultancy, training and (keynote) talks at conferences.
Two great books on agile retrospectives are now available in the book bundle rétrospectives agiles on Leanpub: Tirer profit des rétrospectives agiles by Luis Gonçalves and Ben Linders and Donnez un coup de fouet à vos Rétrospectives Agile by Alexey Krivitsky.
Agile teams use retrospectives to reflect, learn, and adapt their way of working. Facilitating retrospectives matters, it's important to have a skilled facilitator to assure that retrospectives become effective. Let's explore 7 good practices and tips that facilitators can use to help teams to get more value out of their agile retrospectives.
I will be giving two workshops on Agile Retrospectives in Kiev early April, in connection with a talk at the 7th Agile Eastern Europe (#AgileEE) conference.
I´m giving a talk about "The Road to Agility" at the Agile Eastern Europe 2016 conference, the annual, largest and most well-known Agile conference in Eastern Europe.
I'm honored to have been interviewed by Tom Cagley for his Software Process and Measurement Cast (SPaMCAST). Tom and I talked about the need for continuous improvement and how agile teams can develop skills and practices to recognize and deal with impediments.
Working with remote teams is becoming a common thing. Where there are clear advantages to this it also has its challenges. One of them is building a relationship with people in remote teams, which is very important to make it work. Here are some ideas how you can do this.
The presentation from the keynote that I gave on February 15 at 1stConf about The Need for Continuous Improvement in Agile is now available. It has been published on my presentations page.
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.
Retrium published the ebook Become a Retrospective Rockstar in which 21 experts share tips on how to make retrospectives successful. My tip is this book is about Getting Things Done with Retrospectives. It describes the Vital Few Actions exercise which helps to make you retrospective more actionable and thus valuable.