Spicing up Agile Retrospectives at Topconf Linz 2017
I will give a talk about Spicing up Agile Retrospectives at Topconf Linz 2017.
I will give a talk about Spicing up Agile Retrospectives at Topconf Linz 2017.
The European Testing Conference is about getting experts and practitioners together to talk, learn and practice the art of testing. We’re looking into advanced new methods into making our testing more effective, as well as enrich our understanding of fundamental methods to grow a stronger community.
The Agile Self-Assessment Game helps teams to discover how agile they are and what you can do to increase their agility. I played this game at the XP Days Benelux conference. Here's how this went.
I'm returning to QCon London in 2017 to give a workshop on valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams on Thursday March 9.
Valuable Agile Retrospectives are coming to Czech Republic! On December 1 I'm giving my successful workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives in Kladno (near Prague). There are some seats left for this workshop. Don't wait too long; register yourself on the Aguarra Agile Center of Excellence website.
If you want your retrospectives to be valuable you have to make retrospective actions stick. Effective retrospectives have lasting impact in organizations, they lead to changed behavior that sticks without any reinforcement. Having a diverse and multidisciplinary team helps to make retrospective actions stick.
A new bundle has been released on Leanpub: Retrospectivas ágiles. It contains three great books on Agile Retrospectives in Spanish which can now be bought with a fabulous discount.
Non-verbal exercises can be used in agile retrospectives to "hear" from introverts and involve people who find it difficult to speak up in groups.
Agile retrospectives can be done in many different way, the Many Faces of Jack Sparrow is one example how to do them. I love it when people design new exercises that help people to reflect and learn, specially those exercises that help to explore and discuss feelings in teams. Here's a guest blog post on BenLinders.com from Corey Scholefield and Selina McGinnis in which they share their experiences from doing a retrospective exercise called Many Faces of Jack Sparrow.
Silver bullets bestaan niet in softwareontwikkeling. Effectieve softwareteams bepalen zelf hoe ze hun werk doen, passen zich continu aan en verbeteren zichzelf. Continue verbetering is ingebed in de Agile-mindset en -principes en helpt zo om de flexibiliteit in bedrijven te verhogen en meer waarde te leveren.
A good facilitator support teams in doing analysis, reflection and deciding on the actions. An independent facilitator doesn't not have an own agenda of improvements, but is focused on helping teams decide on those actions that are best for the team.
I was contacted by Srijan to contribute my expertise to an round up post on distributed agile best practices. As I'm always looking for ways to share my experience I agreed. Little did I know at the time who else they asked to contribute. Here's how I ended up.