In this third post in the series on handling impediments I'll explore what you can do to understand the impediment and underlying the problems that the team is trying to deal with. Previous posts explained why impediments matter and how you can recognize the problem.
Het boek Agile in de echte wereld - Starten met Scrum is afgelopen week in ebook formaat gepubliceerd. De auteur van het boek, Derk-Jan de Grood, is trainer, consultant , Agile Coach en blogger bij Valori. Je kunt het boek gratis downloaden op de website van Valori.
Onlangs kreeg ik een vraag of de Product Owner aan de retrospective mag deelnemen. Er ontspon zich een interessante discussie over hoe "het moet volgens het boekje" en "gezond boerenverstand" die ik in onderstaande blog post heb samengevat.
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.