Retrospectives for Teams with Multiple Customers

  • Post published:March 6, 2014

In an ideal world agile teams are working with one product owner or customer. But there are also teams which have more than one customer, maybe even multiple product owners. Due to that all the team members are often not working together on a daily base. Is it useful for such teams to do a retrospective together? How can they define actions that will be beneficial for the complete team?

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500 Leanpub Readers of Valuable Agile Retrospectives!

  • Post published:March 3, 2014

Our book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives has reached 500 readers on Leanpub. There are also many more readers that have downloaded our book from InfoQ. Readers have rated our book 4.6 out of 5 on Goodreads. A big THANKS to all of our readers from Leanpub and from InfoQ: having so many readers interested in doing Valuable Agile Retrospectives makes use very happy!

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Self-assessing How Agile You Are

  • Post published:February 11, 2014

Do your teams want to know how agile they are? And what could be the possible next steps for them to become more agile and lean? In an open space session about Agile Self-Assessments organized by nlScrum we discussed why self-assessments matter and how teams can self-assess their agility to become better in what they do.

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Continu Verbeteren met Kanban en Retrospectives

  • Post published:February 6, 2014

Veel van mijn artikelen gaan over verbeteringen om sneller de juiste producten en diensten met goede kwaliteit aan klanten te leveren. Verbeteren doe je niet door een doel te stellen. Een CMMI niveau is geen effectief verbeterdoel. Wat wel werkt is regelmatig reflecteren en met de feedback continu verbeteren in kleine stapjes. Kanban en Retrospectives zijn effectieve manieren om dat te doen.

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Success Factors for Root Cause Analysis in Software Development

  • Post published:January 28, 2014

Root Cause Analysis can be used in software development to build a shared understanding of a problem to determine the first or “root” causes. Knowing these causes helps to identify effective improvement actions to prevent similar problems in the future. You can also do Root Cause Analysis in agile to stop problems that have been bugging your team for too long.

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Agile Veranderen door sterktes te gebruiken

  • Post published:January 20, 2014

De trend die ik in 2013 heb gezien van kleinere en snellere verbeteringen in organisaties zal zich doorzetten in 2014. Een Agile manier van veranderen, mbv Scrum, maakt het mogelijk om samen te verbeteren: medewerkers en managers. Het stimuleert zelf-organisatie en benut de kracht van de medewerkers om organisatiedoelen te bereiken. We gaan het gewoon doen in 2014: Sterktes gebruiken om op een Agile manier te veranderen!

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Wat brengt 2014 ons? Agile en Lean!

  • Post published:January 16, 2014

Een nieuw jaar is begonnen. 2013 was een jaar met mooie resultaten met Agile, verbetering, workshops, advies en de publicatie van mijn 1e boek over retrospectives. Wat gaat 2014 ons brengen? Voorspellen is lastig, vooral als het om de toekomst gaat :-) Daarom geen voorspellingen, we gaan het gewoon doen: Meer resultaten met Agile en Lean!

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