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.
I will give a talk about the Why, What and How of Agile Retrospectives at Lean Kanban Benelux. This event is part of the Global Conference Series of events dedicated to the adoption of Modern Management Methods that enable organizational evolution and boost business competitiveness.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.