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.
Agile retrospectives help teams to learn from how they are doing and find ways to improve themselves. In stead of learning from what went wrong, from problems, mistakes or failures, teams can also learn from things that went well, by asking strength-based questions in their retrospectives. Such questions will help them to use their existing skills and experience to become great in doing things that they are already good at.
The presentation that I gave at the first Agile Greece Summit about "The Why, What and How of Agile Retrospectives"has been published.
A full day workshop on November 20, 2015, to learn how to improve the effectiveness of Agile Retrospectives in the beautiful city of Istanbul, Turkey.
The Leanpub bundle Agile Retrospectives offers four successful books on retrospectives with a significant discount. These books will help you to do amazing and effective agile retrospectives that teams love.
Teams can improve their way of working by exploring their strengths using a core qualities exercise in their agile retrospectives. The exercise described in this blog post, which is based on ideas from positive psychology and Solution Focused, helps team to become even better in things that they are great at. It enables them to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders.
Luis Gonçalves (co-author of our book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives) has invited me to his Scrum webinar series. I will be talking about deploying agile practices effectively, continuous improvement, agile retrospectives and much more.
I will be giving two workshops at the Agile Greece Summit in September, on Valuable Agile Retrospectives and Getting More out of Agile and Lean. There are still some tickets available, book your seat now!
When a client asks for a training session, most often the full content of the training is discussed and defined up front. With one client that wanted a week of training I took a different approach. The client an I used a backlog to prioritize training sessions and workshops. We only planned the first days, and reflected and adjusted the training every day of the week. This is a story of how I collaborated with a client in an agile way to ensure that they would get the biggest possible benefit out of a training week that I delivered to them.
I started working freelance with SearchSoftwareQuality to share my experiences with Agile, Quality and Continuous Improvement. SearchSoftwareQuality is an online community provided by TechTarget, a leading online technology media company.
I have collected research, studies and reports that provide insight into the business benefits of agile in a new agile and lean tool: Business Benefits of Agile.
One of the principles from agile and lean software development is transparency. Making things visible helps teams to decide what to do and to collaborate effectively with their stakeholders. It can also help to increase the quality of software. This post provides ideas how you can do that.