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…)
The retrospectives facilitators gathering is a small invitation only gathering, which provides for an opportunity for very focused and high-density learning on agile retrospectives.
This one day DevOps Summit is designed to connect a wide range of stakeholders. The expert practitioners and thought leaders at this DevOps Summit will give help you to develop your business case and build the foundation towards getting significant return on investment.
The Scaling Agile for the Enterprise conference explores what is needed to create an Agile environment and what type of leadership styles are best suited to make the Agile mind set thrive in your organisation.
In this third post in the series on handling impediments I'll explore what you can do to understand the impediment and underlying the problems that the team is trying to deal with. Previous posts explained why impediments matter and how you can recognize the problem.
This second post in the series on handling impediments builds on the process described in Handling Impediments: Why it Matters! I'll dive into the first step: recognizing the problem.
On February 15 I will give a keynote at 1stConf about The Need for Continuous Improvement in Agile. I will show why continuous improvement matters in agile and what you can do to help your teams and organization to be more agile. (more…)
I will give a keynote about The Need for Continuous Improvement in Agile at 1stConf on February 15 in Melbourne, Australia.
I was contacted by Karly Edwards who’s involved in organizing the Agile Cymru 2016 conference. They are looking for speakers, so if you’re interested to give a talk at their conference then feel free to reach out to them. (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…)
This is the first blog post of a series on handling impediments in agile teams. It explores why being able to deal with impediments matters for agile teams and provides a basic "process" for effectively dealing with them.
Effective agile teams are able to decide how to do their work, and to continuously learn and improve their way of working. Team working enables them to deliver high quality software that satisfies the needs of their customers.