Have impediments solved by Scrum team members

In my workshops I often play the impediment game with teams. In that game team members discuss impediments that happen during Scrum sprints or Kanban flows, and decide how to deal with them and who should solve the impediment. The "who" is most often "any team member". But in practice I see that teams struggle with impediments, and often expect the Scrum master or a manager to solve them. Let's explore what can be done to have impediments solved by Scrum team members.

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Less is More with Retrospectives

The aim of agile retrospectives is to come up with improvement actions. Having too many actions from retrospectives makes it harder for teams to improve, it's actually better to come up with less actions in stead of more in a retrospective. It's quality over quantity for actions. Here's some ideas on how to come up with less actions to get more done.

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Getting Into Reflection Mode

I chaired a session about getting into reflection mode at the Retrospective Facilitators Gathering 2016. In this session we discussed what facilitators can do to help people to look back and reflect in an agile / Scrum retrospective meeting or at other occasion where they want to learn from how they are doing.

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GOTO Amsterdam 2016

I will be covering the GOTO Amsterdam conference for InfoQ. GOTO Amsterdam is a practitioner-driven enterprise software development conference designed for team leads, architects, and project management and is organized "for developers by developers".

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Gratis eBook editie bij Paperback Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives

Van 25-29 april is er de jaarlijkse Retrospectives Facilitators Gathering. Voor mij de gelegenheid bij uitstek om mijn vaardigheden als trainer, coach en facilitator van Agile Retrospectives verder te verbeteren. Wil jij ook meer waarde halen uit retrospectives? Bestel dan voor 1 mei de paperback Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives op bol.com bij Ben Linders Publishing en je ontvangt de Nederlandstalige eBook editie gratis.

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