Agile Retrospective workshops in Kiev
I will be giving two workshops on Agile Retrospectives in Kiev early April, in connection with a talk at the 7th Agile Eastern Europe (#AgileEE) conference.
I will be giving two workshops on Agile Retrospectives in Kiev early April, in connection with a talk at the 7th Agile Eastern Europe (#AgileEE) conference.
I´m giving a talk about "The Road to Agility" at the Agile Eastern Europe 2016 conference, the annual, largest and most well-known Agile conference in Eastern Europe.
I'm honored to have been interviewed by Tom Cagley for his Software Process and Measurement Cast (SPaMCAST). Tom and I talked about the need for continuous improvement and how agile teams can develop skills and practices to recognize and deal with impediments.
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.
The presentation from the keynote that I gave on February 15 at 1stConf about The Need for Continuous Improvement in Agile is now available. It has been published on my presentations page.
In this workshop you will learn how to scale agile retrospectives, doing them with multiple teams from a project, product or organization, practice facilitation skills with different retrospective exercises, and learn how you can introduce and improve retrospectives. You will also learn to do agile self-assessments and readiness checks and to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to increase their agility.
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.
In this workshop you will learn different exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they can bring you.
A full day workshop to learn how to improve the effectiveness of Agile Retrospectives in the beautiful city of Istanbul, Turkey.
Although the steps described in the series of posts on dealing with impediments sound rather straightforward and easy, solving impediments is often perceived as stressful and difficult by many people. In the previous posts I described how you can recognize and understand impediments, find effective solutions, and decide what to do to solve them. This last post explores what you can do to become more effective in dealing with impediments.
People often ask me what to do to prevent that teams get bored when doing agile retrospectives for a longer period. The short answer is: Make sure that you are getting value from doing your retrospectives. 5 practical tips that will assure that you keep getting value from your agile retrospectives.
After you've come up with several solutions to deal with an impediment, the next step is to decide which actions you will do with your team to solve it. Let's dive into who decides to take action and explore different approaches for how agile teams can decide.