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Slides on Agile Retrospectives published

The slides from my recent talks on Agile Retrospectives have been published on slideshare: Spicing up Agile Retrospectives – Agile Tour London 2015 Why What and How of Agile Retrospectives – Agile Tour Lille 2015 Why what and how of Agile Retrospectives – Agile Greece Summit 2015 There's a page with Presentations by Ben Linders where you view and download the slides of all of my public talks and keynotes, from conferences, meetups, or other occasions. And there's also a page with Interviews with Ben Linders. Finally there's a list of my future public events, workshops and talks. If you want me to appear at your event, or have a need for advice, consultancy, training or workshops, then feel free to contact me.  +31 6 2901 3863  [email protected]  @BenLinders  Ben Linders  Ben Linders Consulting  Tilburg, The Netherlands

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Software Quality is Free

In 1980 Philip Crosby wrote the book Quality is Free. In the book he explained how investing time and energy in building the right products with good quality will save money and time. Many agile teams know how important software quality is, but they need to convince their managers and other stakeholders to get there. It will help them to self-organize and do their work in a good way. Let's explore how you can sell that "quality is free" and build a business case for quality.

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#NoEstimates Book

The book No Estimates - How to measure project progress without estimating by Vasco Duarte from Oikosofy has been released. Three different packages are available: Only the book, the book with additional video interviews with #NoEstimates pioneers and an "all you can eat digital edition".

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Learning from Things that Go Well

We can learn from failures, from our mistakes; that is something we all know. But we can also learn from things that go well. Here's an example of a team that explored how they succeeded in delivering their project on time against their expectation and used their learnings to improve, and a couple of techniques and exercises that you can use in retrospectives to learn from things that go well.

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