Agile needs coaching
Agile definitely needs coaching. But the way that people are coached can make a huge difference, it can be done more effectively with part-time coaching. It’s not about the coaches, it’s coaching and the coachees that matters!
Why Doing Nothing Can Be the Best Thing To Do
Here's a story of a team that had a serious problem which it didn't recognize at first. The story shows that sometimes doing nothing can be the best thing that you can do to implement lasting change in organizations.
Gastblog: Ervaringen met Agile en Scrum Certificeringen
In deze gastblog deelt Erik Philippus van ImprovemenT zijn ervaringen met diverse agile en Scrum certificeringen.
How Futurespectives Help Teams to Reach Their Goals
Many agile teams are doing retrospectives at the end of their iterations to reflect on their way of working and find things that can be improved. But what if teams are starting up and trying to figure out how to do their work? A futurespective exercise can help teams teams to find ways to reach their goals, agree upon their way of working and define a Definition of Done.
Workshop Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives, Utrecht
De workshop Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives ondersteunt succesvolle agile transformaties op alle niveaus in organisaties.
A Retrospective of 2014 and Futurespective of 2015
2014 was a great year for me. I've helped organization to effectively deploy Agile and Lean and improve their ways of working, my first book became a bestseller and I've inspired professionals all around the world by sharing useful knowledge and experience on my blog and via InfoQ. Let's reflect on what 2014 has brought and do a futurespective to visualize the opportunities of 2015.
Retrospectives in Remote Teams
When you are working with an agile team where people are not co-located you still want to do valuable agile retrospectives. As gathering everybody in one location for the retrospective is not feasible, you need to take a different approach. The dispersed team questions retrospective exercise is a variant of the questions-based retrospective for teams consisting of members working from different locations, for example team members working from home or working in different offices, countries or even continents.
Guest blog: Classifying Retrospectives to get the best of it
Retrospective is a special time dedicated to analyse the strength and weakness of the teamwork process. There is already some well known tools used to animate this meeting and we tend to use often the same kind of exercise, which can lead to demotivation among the team members and to the feeling of not being able to improve anything anymore. We need to go back to the initial goal of the retrospective : getting better together, by using the collective intelligence and by ensuring the involvement of every team member as much in the creative process as in its application.
5 Tips to Become a Top Agile Blogger
I'm blogging to share my learnings to help my readers to learn and become better in what they are doing. This blog is on the Top 100 agile blog list. It feels great to be among the worlds top blogs on software development, a big thanks to all my readers who made this possible! Success doesn't come for free, I've learned along the way how to become better in blogging by doing it and reflecting. If you want to get your blog on the 100+ top agile blogs list, here are 5 tips to improve your blog and get more happy readers.
Spice up your Agile Retrospectives
In the mini-workshop Experience new exercises to spice up your agile retrospective #RetroValue that I gave at Lean Kanban France teams experienced three different retrospectives exercises. They learned how retrospectives can help them to gain deeper insight in their situation and came up with actions to deal with problems and improve their performance.
Guest blog: Retrospectives with Wordles
There is a danger with retrospectives that teams will end up just going through the motions and not use the valuable material to identify whether the actions agreed at the end of the retrospective are actually making an impact on the team’s capability to improve. Furthermore, the chances are that in a multi-team environment, there are common themes raised that if highlighted early, can aid a new team when starting up – learn from others misfortune! Following the Agile philosophy of transparency, here at the UK Ministry of Justice we have been using Wordles to really get the key messages across in a clear manner.
Retrospective Exercise: Vital Few Actions
The aim of an agile retrospective is to define actions for the next iteration that will improve the way of working and help teams to deliver more value to their customers. This retrospective exercise can be used within agile frameworks like Scrum, SAFe, XP or Kanban to have teams agree upon the vital few improvement actions that they will do.
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