Attend my workshop Getting More out of Agile & Lean in Melbourne, Australia to learn practices for teams and their stakeholders to develop the right products, deliver faster, increase quality, and create happy high performing teams.
Agile Consortium will host an evening seminar on leadership fit for the 21st century. David Marquet, author of the award winning book Turn the Ship Around, will present his keynote on Intent-Based Leadership, as part of an interesting evening program.
Van het boek Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives zijn inmiddels ruim meer dan 100 exemplaren in omloop. Om dat te vieren zijn er 10 gratis exemplaren beschikbaar van dit boek in ebook formaat! (more…)
When you're facing problems and feel that there's no room for improvement, the situation will only get worse. You're building up process debt, a debt that you will have to repay as soon as possible to prevent from going bankrupt. Let's explore how you can deal with process debt by taking a first step on a journey of continuous improvement to increase your agility.
My new book Continuous Improvement - Doing whatever helps to become better and thus more valuable is about increasing the awareness of continuous improvement and about how to improve in a sustainable way. It explores how improvement is engrained in agile, and provides suggestions that you can use in your daily work to improve continuously and increase your agility. Continuous improvement is what makes agile work. It's at the heart of agile: a mindset and a way of working where people always look for ways to do things better. Continuous Improvement is my third book. Earlier I published the books What Drives Quality and Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives. All of my books are available on Ben Linders' Leanpub page. Feedback on this new book is very much appreciated. Please sent your suggestions, comments, ideas or questions to [email protected]. Also feel free to contact me if you are interested to receive a review copy.
I will give the workshop Make Your Agile Retrospectives More Valuable at the Agile Practitioners conference, the agile conference for the agile community by the agile community. Conference theme for 2016 is Hands-on agility.
The ebook Tirer profit des rétrospectives agiles is now offered with a 40% discount on leanpub. I will give a talk about doing valuable agile retrospectives at the Agile Tour Lille on October 15.
We can learn from failures, from our mistakes; that is something we all know. But we can also learn from things that go well. Here's an example of a team that explored how they succeeded in delivering their project on time against their expectation and used their learnings to improve, and a couple of techniques and exercises that you can use in retrospectives to learn from things that go well.
The Retrium tool for on-line retrospectives is a tool that makes retrospectives for distributed teams easy and effective. Team can use Retrium to reflect, learn and improve continuously.
In the impediment game people learn to recognize and analyse impediments and how to take appropriate action by deploying agile and lean good practices. I will play the impediment game with teams at the Agile Tour Brussels 2015 on November 2.
I will give a talk on Nuggets for your Continuous Improvement Journey at the Agilia Conference, the Central European conference about agile methods. Narrow focus on selected topics and private exclusive content makes this event unique.
If you want to become agile and lean, teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. This game teaches you to recognize and analyse impediments and to take appropriate action by deploying agile and lean good practices.