I will give a mini-workshop Dealing Effectively with Impediments at Bosnia Agile Day: one-day event that brings world-wide Agile Evangelists, leading Agile experts, practitioners and innovators together to share their experiences, expertise, enthusiasm and knowledge.
In the workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams in Istanbul on November 24 you will try out different retrospective exercises and learn how to effectively facilitate retrospectives in agile teams.
Many great books have been published on how to apply Scrum for developing software. Which are your favorite books? Join the online poll on favorite Scrum books!
The Four L's is a classic exercise that you can use in your agile retrospectives. It helps your teams to look for things they Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed For in their iteration, and to take actions based on their shared insight on how they are performing as a team.
A new version of the Agile Self-assessment Game has been released. Several new playing suggestions have been added and some layout corrections were done to make it easier to print and cut the cards.
Here are some recently published books that I highly recommend on Digital Quality, Team Engagement, and Sense & Respond.
The French edition of my Agile Retrospectives book, Tirer profit des rétrospectives agiles, is now also available in paperback format on Amazon.
In this guest blog post Alan O'Callaghan explains how governance when applied traditionally can severely damage an agile transformation and negatively impact business results. His conclusion: we need a new model of governance for agile.
Many agile coaches are looking for new innovative ways to help Scrum and Agile teams improve. They want to coach teams in a way that they can discover how they are doing and come up with ideas to become better and deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. The Agile Self-Assessment Game is a tool that helps them to do that. Andreas Schliep, Executive Partner at DasScrumTeam AG shared his experiences playing this game.
A new version of the Agile Self-assessment Game has been released. There's an introduction discount of 50% on the game and all expansion packs.
In conjunction with Agile Greece I'm giving in-house workshops in Athens on Getting More out of Agile and Lean in the week when the summit takes place.
XP Days is a two day conference on agile software development for and by practitioners. I have submitted a session about the Agile Self-assessment game.