Handling Impediments: Recognizing the Problem
This second post in the series on handling impediments builds on the process described in Handling Impediments: Why it Matters! I'll dive into the first step: recognizing the problem.
This second post in the series on handling impediments builds on the process described in Handling Impediments: Why it Matters! I'll dive into the first step: recognizing the problem.
On February 15 I will give a keynote at 1stConf about The Need for Continuous Improvement in Agile. I will show why continuous improvement matters in agile and what you can do to help your teams and organization to be more agile. (more…)
I will give a keynote about The Need for Continuous Improvement in Agile at 1stConf on February 15 in Melbourne, Australia.
Agile retrospectives helpen teams om te leren. Teams passen hun werkwijze aan om beter te worden in wat ze doen. Hieronder een beschrijving van een situatie uit mijn praktijk waarin een team mbv een retrospective leerde van hun fouten en door het doen van verbeteracties soortgelijke problemen in de toekomst voorkwam.
Do you want to know how agile you are? What you can do to increase your agility? The agile and lean tool Agile Self-assessments provides 50+ checklists, tools and articles that you can use to self-assess your agility. (more…)
This is the first blog post of a series on handling impediments in agile teams. It explores why being able to deal with impediments matters for agile teams and provides a basic "process" for effectively dealing with them.
Via twitter kwam in contact met Johan Roels. In zijn boek Cruciale Dialogen herken ik veel dingen vanuit mijn ervaring met continue verbetering in organisaties. Het vlindermodel wat Johan heeft gedefinieerd in zijn boek verbindt communicatie met waardering om oplossingen voor problemen te zoeken en die vervolgens effectief te implementeren.
Two new teams have started to translate the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives to Turkish and Greek. The books will first become available on Leanpub. You can sign-up now to show that you are interested in a book and to receive the first edition of that book with a significant discount:
Continuous improvement requires that people reflect and find ways to do their work in a better way. Having diversity in agile teams makes it possible to discover and explore new ways of working, where uniform teams with identical kinds of people would aim for steadiness and don't want things to change. Let's explore how you diversity can enable continuous improvement using agile retrospectives.
In February 2016 I will be giving three workshops in Melbourne Australia, one on continuous improvement and two on agile retrospectives. The workshop are organized by Elabor8 who invited me to come to Australia: We are extremely excited to have Ben Linders over from Europe for a series of workshops in February. Ben is the co-author of "Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives"and is a regular keynote conference speaker (including Agile Greece Summit 2015 and QCon Beijing 2015). I will give the following workshops: Getting More out of Agile and Lean on Tuesday February 16 Valuable Agile Retrospectives (beginners) on Thursday February 18 Valuable Agile Retrospectives (advanced) on Friday February 19 The workshops are held in the Elabor8 offices at 455 Bourke Street. Level 7 , Melbourne, VIC 3000 AU, Australia. Ticket sale has started, you can register yourself at the Elabor8 Eventbrite events page.
In this workshop you will learn how to scale agile retrospectives, doing them with multiple teams from a project, product or organization, practice facilitation skills with different retrospective exercises, and learn how you can introduce and improve retrospectives. You will also learn to do agile self-assessments and readiness checks and to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to increase their agility.
In this workshop you will learn different exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they can bring you.