Delivering quality software with Agile
My article on delivering quality software with Agile is featured in the first English edition of Bits&Chips, a news magazine for professionals who develop smart products and systems.
Continuous Improvement Matters in Agile
I gave a well received keynote about Continuous Improvement in Agile at 1st conference in Melbourne, Australia. In this talk I explained the need for continuous improvement when adopting agile ways of working, explored how continuous improvement is engrained in agile, and what you can do to increase the agility of your teams and the organization as a whole.
French books on Agile Retrospectives
Two great books on agile retrospectives are now available in the book bundle rétrospectives agiles on Leanpub: Tirer profit des rétrospectives agiles by Luis Gonçalves and Ben Linders and Donnez un coup de fouet à vos Rétrospectives Agile by Alexey Krivitsky.
Leren en Continu Verbeteren in Agile
Het Agile Manifesto beschrijft dat teams frequent reflecteren om hun effectiviteit te verbeteren. Je kunt Agile Retrospectives gebruiken om te leren van hoe dingen nu gaan en de manier van werken in Agile-teams aan te passen om continu te verbeteren. Dit eerste artikel van een serie over agile retrospectives geeft een introductie in retrospectives en beschrijft hoe je kunt zorgen voor veiligheid zodat mensen open en eerlijk kunnen zijn.
Tips to make retrospectives successful
Retrium published the ebook Become a Retrospective Rockstar in which 21 experts share tips on how to make retrospectives successful. My tip is this book is about Getting Things Done with Retrospectives. It describes the Vital Few Actions exercise which helps to make you retrospective more actionable and thus valuable.
Aanbevolen boeken over agile
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…)
Covering Conferences for InfoQ
As an editor for InfoQ.com on Culture and Methods I regularly cover conferences, meetups and other events. Some of the upcoming events that I will cover for InfoQ are: Agile Leadership Event by Agile Consortium on December 1 GOTO Berlin 2015 on December 3 - 4 Agile Practitioners Conference in Tel Aviv on January 27 Agilia Conference on April 5 - 6 Conference coverage is done with Q&As (written interviews), write-ups, video interviews and articles. InfoQ defines their purpose as: Software is changing the world and we think our mission is to facilitate the spread of knowledge and innovation in professional software development. We do this by providing our audience with unbiased, practitioner-driven conferences, content, and an online community. I'm enjoying the things I do with InfoQ! It's great to work with people from all around the world and to help to share their thoughts and experiences on InfoQ. It also helps me to stay on top of what…
Russian edition of Valuable Agile Retrospectives book released
The full version of the Russian edition Извлекаем пользу из Agile-ретроспектив has been released on Leanpub. With this release there are now 8 translated editions of the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives available. (more…)
Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives is een succes
Van het boek Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives zijn inmiddels ruim meer dan 100 exemplaren in omloop. Om dat te vieren zijn er 10 gratis exemplaren beschikbaar van dit boek in ebook formaat! (more…)
New Book on Continuous Improvement
My new book Continuous Improvement - Doing whatever helps to become better and thus more valuable is about increasing the awareness of continuous improvement and about how to improve in a sustainable way. It explores how improvement is engrained in agile, and provides suggestions that you can use in your daily work to improve continuously and increase your agility. Continuous improvement is what makes agile work. It's at the heart of agile: a mindset and a way of working where people always look for ways to do things better. Continuous Improvement is my third book. Earlier I published the books What Drives Quality and Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives. All of my books are available on Ben Linders' Leanpub page. Feedback on this new book is very much appreciated. Please sent your suggestions, comments, ideas or questions to [email protected]. Also feel free to contact me if you are interested to receive a review copy.
Guest Post on Retrium on Facilitating Effective Retrospectives
The Retrium blog published my blog post on facilitating effective agile retrospectives.