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.
At the start of an agile retrospective you can do a safety check by asking people to write down how safe they feel in the retrospective. If the score indicates that people feel unsafe, then that will have serious impact on the retrospective. Here are some suggestions how you can deal with this when facilitating retrospectives.
A full day workshop to learn how to improve the effectiveness of Agile Retrospectives in the beautiful city of Istanbul, Turkey.
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.
Do you want multiple copies of our ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives? For every member of your team, the whole department or company? Or to use it at school or at your university for students to learn about doing valuable retrospectives. You can now get multiple copies by buying an ebook package on Leanpub. (more…)
A chapter about Sustainable Pace has been added to my new book Continuous Improvement – Doing whatever helps to become better and thus more valuable: Agile promotes that teams work in a sustainable pace to deliver value to their customers. When teams are working under too much pressure, technical debt will increase and velocity of teams will go down. Under such circumstances it will be almost impossible to do any improvement. A sustainable pace is an essential condition to enable team to improve continuously. This book is about increasing the awareness of continuous improvement and about how to improve in a sustainable way. It explores how improvement is engrained in agile, and provides suggestions that you can use in your daily work to improve continuously and increase your agility. Continuous Improvement is my third book. Earlier I published the books What Drives Quality and Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives. All of my books are available on Ben Linders’…
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…)