Many agile transformations fail: organizations struggle to implement agile practices and don't get sufficient benefits. This is often because they plan the transformation and then try to execute the plan. Becoming agile is a journey: You can plan it, but you need a different planning approach, focus on value, and use a better map.
Zoltán Ludányi, one of my customers for whom I did an in-house retrospective workshop, designed a retrospective exercise where team members pair up to discuss why, when and how to do specific agile practices. Purpose of the exercise is to involve minorities and introverts into the team's improvements and actions. Here it is: the Extreme Pairing Retrospective!
I'm giving the workshop Getting More out of Agile and Lean in Paris on November 28. Ticket sale is ongoing, book your seat now!
I gave the mini-workshop Dealing Effectively with Impediments at Bosnia Agile Day. The presentation from this session is available on SlideShare.
My highly popular Agile Self-assessment Game is now also available in Polish. The basic agile game and the DevOps and Scrum expansion packs have been translated by Kamil Wójcik from English to Polish.
I gave the mini-workshop Exercises to Spice Up Agile Retrospectives at Agile Cambridge. The presentation from this session is available on SlideShare.
My 2nd book What Drives Quality has been officially released today (September 30). It is now available on Amazon and all other major bookstores.
I will play the Agile Self-assessment Game at Agile Tour Lille, a non-profit event where people share experiences with agile within local communities.
Full day Workshop Getting More out of Agile and Lean with Ben Linders in Paris, November 28, 2017, at Lean Kanban France #lkfr17
Mad Sad Glad is a classic exercise that you can use in your agile retrospectives. It helps teams to look for things that make them happy, sad, or drive them mad, and to decide how they want to address these things working together as a team.
My 2nd book What Drives Quality is now available for pre-order on Amazon, Leanpub, and my webshop. The book will be released end of September.
I'm giving a dojo (1/2 day workshop) and talk at Agile by Example. The conference will be held in Warsaw on October 9 to 11. I'm giving a dojo (1/2 day workshop) and talk at Agile by Example. The conference will be held in Warsaw on October 9 to 11. Tickets are on sale --limited seats are available for my workshop.