Agile verandertrajecten worden veelal top down uitgevoerd in organisaties. Zulke trajecten kosten veel tijd en energie van het management en de medewerkers, duren lang, en leveren vaak niet de verwachte voordelen op: de organisatie wordt er niet echt agile van. Een bottom up aanpak, gedreven vanuit de medewerkers, kan ervoor zorgen dat een organisatie sneller en blijvend hun agility verhoogt.
The Belarusian and Russian translations have been added to the blog post Retrospective Prime Directive in many languages. This post now contains 11 translations of this important statement that is used in Agile Retrospectives all over the world.
Door Ben Linders Publishing Belgium worden de Nederlandstalige en Franstalige paperback editie van het succesvolle boek met oefeningen voor Agile Retrospectives in België op bol.com verkocht. In Nederland worden ze verkocht door Ben Linders Publishing.
On October 22 I will do a full day workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives at Agile Tour London. For registration please see the Agile Tour London training page.
Het succesvolle boek Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives is nu ook in paperback formaat beschikbaar op Bol.com.
More and more organizations are implementing agile with Scrum. They define teams and assign Scrum masters to the teams to start working agile and become self-organized. Although agile looks easy, to implement the Scrum master role often turns out to be problematic. Let's discuss what makes it so difficult to work with full-time Scrum masters and explore the alternative of having technical people taking the Scrum master role.
I will give a talk at Agile Tour Lille 2015 on the Why, What and How of Agile Retrospectives. Agile Tour Lille is a part of the Global Agile Tour.
In this guest blog post on BenLinders.com David Horowitz, CEO and Co-Founder of Retrium, explores why you should do continuous agile retrospectives and how you can do them to establish continuous improvement.
Do you have the same person acting as a Scrum master for every iteration in your team(s)? Or do different team members take the role on turns? I'd like to hear how you do it, what works for you, and why.
The Leanpub bundle Agile Retrospectives offers great books to do amazing Agile Retrospectives. Together these books will make your Agile retrospectives rock! Teams will love to do them :-) And now you can get these books with a significant discount :-).
I sometimes hear of teams that have stopped doing retrospectives because they didn't see any improvements. When I talk with them it often turns out that they didn't have good actions coming out of the retrospectives, or that the actions weren't done and kept coming back in the retrospective. No actions leads to no improvement. Here are some suggestions on what you can do to assure that you will have actions from retrospectives that are doable and that those actions get done.
The retrospective prime directive is a sentence that is used by facilitators to establish safety in a retrospective meeting. Safety is crucial if you want people to speak up and be open, which is an important precondition to reflect and learn which is what agile retrospectives are all about. Since our book is being translated into many languages we now have translations of this unique and important statement.