QCon London 2016
QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. I will be covering the QCon London conference for InfoQ with video interviews and news.
QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. I will be covering the QCon London conference for InfoQ with video interviews and news.
The Agile Consortium and Unicom are organizing the Scaling Agile for the Enterprise conference on February 4. Parallel with this event the DevOps Summit is held. Both conferences will be at the Herman Teirlinckauditorium at KBC Bank in Brussels, Belgium. I will be covering these one day conferences for InfoQ. (more…)
Ben je op zoek naar een goed praktische boek over agile software ontwikkeling met b.v. Scrum, Kanban of Lean? Of naar een bruikbaar boek over leiderschap of verandermanagement? Op benlinders.com/boeken vindt je mijn boek aanbevelingen. (more…)
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.
GOTO Berlin is the enterprise software development conference designed for team leads, architects, and project management and is organized "for developers by developers". As software developers and architects ourselves, we wanted to craft the ultimate conference.
In February 2016 I will be giving three workshops in Melbourne Australia, one on continuous improvement and two on agile retrospectives. The workshop are organized by Elabor8 who invited me to come to Australia: We are extremely excited to have Ben Linders over from Europe for a series of workshops in February. Ben is the co-author of "Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives"and is a regular keynote conference speaker (including Agile Greece Summit 2015 and QCon Beijing 2015). I will give the following workshops: Getting More out of Agile and Lean on Tuesday February 16 Valuable Agile Retrospectives (beginners) on Thursday February 18 Valuable Agile Retrospectives (advanced) on Friday February 19 The workshops are held in the Elabor8 offices at 455 Bourke Street. Level 7 , Melbourne, VIC 3000 AU, Australia. Ticket sale has started, you can register yourself at the Elabor8 Eventbrite events page.
In this workshop you will learn how to scale agile retrospectives, doing them with multiple teams from a project, product or organization, practice facilitation skills with different retrospective exercises, and learn how you can introduce and improve retrospectives. You will also learn to do agile self-assessments and readiness checks and to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to increase their agility.
In this workshop you will learn different exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they can bring you.
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.
In 1980 Philip Crosby wrote the book Quality is Free. In the book he explained how investing time and energy in building the right products with good quality will save money and time. Many agile teams know how important software quality is, but they need to convince their managers and other stakeholders to get there. It will help them to self-organize and do their work in a good way. Let's explore how you can sell that "quality is free" and build a business case for quality.