I'm giving my successful workshop Getting More out of Agile and Lean in London on October 17-18. In this two day workshop you will experience agile and lean practices for teams and stakeholders with advice on how to deploy them, and tips and tricks to become more agile and lean.
Several talks and workshops that I'm giving in the autumn have been announced: I'm doing sessions about Agile Retrospectives, Agile Self-assessments, and Dealing with Impediments at the Agile Greece Summit, Agile Cambridge, Lean Agile Scotland, Agile Day Bosnia, and Lean Kanban France.
The Four L's is a classic exercise that you can use in your agile retrospectives. It helps your teams to look for things they Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed For in their iteration, and to take actions based on their shared insight on how they are performing as a team.
A new version of the Agile Self-assessment Game has been released. There's an introduction discount of 50% on the game and all expansion packs.
Making a business case for agile starts by understanding what agile is about and considering how agile can help you. You have to define your own metrics and track them to see if agile is bringing you business value, and reflect on your agile journey to learn, and adopt.
I played the Agile Self-assessment game with two teams in a session at the Retrospectives Facilitators Gathering 2017 and discussed the game with several attendees. Here are the ideas that came up for playing the game and for improving it.
RFG 2018 is a small invitation only gathering, which provides for an opportunity for very focused and high-density learning on Agile Retrospectives.
'm giving the public workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams on May 31 in Istanbul, Turkey. Tickets are available.
In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Istanbul on May 31 you will try out different retrospective exercises and learn how to effectively facilitate retrospectives in agile teams.
Version 1.3 of the Agile Self-assessment Game is now available. The texts on the cards have been updated based on my experience from playing the game and feedback from the agile community.
The ability to write effective user stories enables teams to delivering the right products fast. This post provides several checklists for writing effective user stories and features the perfection game, a technique for giving feedback and providing improvement suggestions to improve your user stories.
Een goede samenwerking van teams en product owners gedurende de gehele iteratie zorgt voor producten met de juiste functionaliteit en kwaliteit. Tips om de samenwerking tussen teams en product owners te verbeteren