From Agile IT to Enterprise Agility – Agile Consortium Belgium
The Agile Consortium Belgium organizes their yearly event, the topic is From Agile IT to Enterprise Agility. I will cover the event for InfoQ.
The Agile Consortium Belgium organizes their yearly event, the topic is From Agile IT to Enterprise Agility. I will cover the event for InfoQ.
Je kunt agile zien als een reis, een Agile Journey waarin mensen samen op weg gaan om betere resultaten te bereiken. Een gezamenlijk doel helpt om de richting te bepalen en te zien of je op de juiste weg bent en vooruit komt.
My article Facilitating Effective Agile Retrospectives is featured in the 2016 DZone Guide to Software Development Lifecycle: QA and Testing.
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.