The full version of the Russian edition Извлекаем пользу из Agile-ретроспектив has been released on Leanpub. With this release there are now 8 translated editions of the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives available. (more…)
When you're facing problems and feel that there's no room for improvement, the situation will only get worse. You're building up process debt, a debt that you will have to repay as soon as possible to prevent from going bankrupt. Let's explore how you can deal with process debt by taking a first step on a journey of continuous improvement to increase your agility.
The Agile Practitioners conference is the agile conference for the agile community by the agile community. Conference theme for 2016 is Hands-on agility.
The agile and lean tool agile/Scrum certification provides an overview of the most important agile and Scrum certifications that are being offered by different institutes. (more…)
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
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.
I will give the workshop Make Your Agile Retrospectives More Valuable at the Agile Practitioners conference, the agile conference for the agile community by the agile community. Conference theme for 2016 is Hands-on agility.
The Retrium blog published my blog post on facilitating effective agile retrospectives.
I will give a talk about the Why, What and How of Agile Retrospectives at Lean Kanban Benelux. This event is part of the Global Conference Series of events dedicated to the adoption of Modern Management Methods that enable organizational evolution and boost business competitiveness.
The successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives is being translated to many languages. We are starting up new teams and looking for people who want to help us translating our book to Turkish, Greek or Romanian. Will you help us?
The ebook Tirer profit des rétrospectives agiles is now offered with a 40% discount on leanpub. I will give a talk about doing valuable agile retrospectives at the Agile Tour Lille on October 15.
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".