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Feb 23

How to Foster Culture Change to Increase Agility

Culture seems to be a hot topic when it comes to adopting agile. Whether it’s about having the “right” culture to foster agility, getting changes done that are needed but are not happening due to the existing culture, or people looking for ways to change the company culture to reach…

Culture

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How to Foster Culture Change to Increase Agility
How to Foster Culture Change to Increase Agility
Culture

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Apr 24, 2021

How true agility looks

Have you heard about “doing agile” vs “being agile”? Taking a two-day course with an exam to become a CSM can help you and your team to do agile, but being truly agile takes a lot more: Practicing, experimenting, and learning by doing. …

Agile

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How true agility looks
How true agility looks
Agile

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Sep 2, 2019

Coaching True Agility

Many organizations are hiring agile coaches for their agile transformation, to find out that their agility doesn’t increase while spending a lot of money. They expected that the coaches would make them agile, but their actual performance and results are not improving. It’s even becoming worse! If you want to…

Agile

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Coaching True Agility
Coaching True Agility
Agile

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Mar 26, 2019

Improve Software Quality with Retrospectives

An agile retrospective is a practice for teams to reflect, learn, and to continuously become better in what they do. …

Agile

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Improve Software Quality with Retrospectives
Improve Software Quality with Retrospectives
Agile

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Aug 29, 2018

Alternatives to agile certificates for delivering quality and value — Ben Linders

I don’t have any agile certificates. As an independent coach, trainer, and consultant, I apply whatever makes sense and looks like a valuable solution in a given context. In this article, I’ll question the need to be certified in agile, discuss the alternatives, and explain how I deliver quality and…

Agile

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Agile

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Jun 14, 2018

Retrospective Smells — How to recognize them and act on them

In 2018 I started a series of posts on Retrospective Smells. I plunged in by exploring two smells: Passiveness and Blaming. For each smell, I described how to recognize it and how to deal with it. In this post, I’ll explore why facilitators need to know about retrospective smells. What’s a retrospective smell A…

Agile

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Retrospective Smells — How to recognize them and act on them
Retrospective Smells — How to recognize them and act on them
Agile

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Sep 12, 2017

Futurespective: Building Awesome Products

What if you need to deliver the best possible software products? High-quality products that do everything that your users need in a great way, products that your users will love? Here’s a futurespective exercise that you can use in your agile retrospectives if your teams want to build awesome products. Futurespectives …

Agile

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Agile

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Aug 31, 2017

How I Started with Agile

What do you do when you get a project that’s been going on for a long time and hasn’t delivered value? …

Agile

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Agile

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Aug 2, 2017

Samen werken aan kwaliteit

Een agile veranderaarpak helpt je om resultaatgericht te verbeteren door intensieve samenwerking. Het manifest voor agile veranderen helpt organisaties om hun agility te verhogen: Blijvende verbetering van de resultaten, tevreden klanten, en blije medewerkers. …

Agile

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Agile

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Jun 13, 2017

Making a Business Case for Agile

Making a business case for agile starts by understanding what agile is about and considering how agile can help you. You have to define your own metrics and track them to see if agile is bringing you business value, and reflect on your agile journey to learn, and adopt. Your mileage may vary Over…

Agile

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Agile

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Ben Linders

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Trainer / Coach / Adviser / Author / Speaker | http://BenLinders.com/game | http://BenLinders.com/exercises | editor @InfoQ | agile workshops | people matter!

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