Blog Posts on Agile and Lean Software Development
An overview of blog posts on Agile, Lean, Quality & Continuous Improvement from BenLinders.com
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What Programmers Can Do to Write Better Code
To write better code, programmers have to apply design fundamentals and read existing code, says Martin Thompson, a Java Champion and high-performance-computing specialist. I interviewed him for InfoQ after his Engineering You talk at QCon London 2016 about the challenges that the software industry is facing and what programmers can do to deal with those challenges and become better software engineers.
Agile and Scrum beyond Software Development - Ben Linders
In one of my workshops I explored how to use agile and Scrum beyond software development, for example in marketing, sales, support and in management. I gave this workshop in-house for a client to an audience which was not directly involved in software development. Many good ideas came up when preparing and giving this workshop, in this post I’m sharing them with the agile community.
Agile worden door agile te doen - Ben Linders
Agile is hot! Kleine en grotere organisaties zijn bezig met het invoeren van agile, vaak met (grootschalige) veranderprogramma’s die niet altijd tot succes leiden. Met een plan wordt je niet agile, dat gebeurd door daadwerkelijk te veranderen, door het te doen. De vraag is: Hoe kun je agile worden door agile te doen.
Why Doing Nothing Can Be the Best Thing To Do - Ben Linders
Here’s a story of a team that had a serious problem which it didn’t recognize at first. The program manager and agile coach who saw the problem decided not to intervene. They provided space to the team to fail, learn from its mistake, and take action. The story shows that sometimes doing nothing can be the best thing that you can do to implement lasting change in organizations.
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.
Retrospective Exercise: Vital Few Actions
The vital few actions 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. By reducing the amount of actions and improving their quality, teams will get feasible and valuable retrospective actions which help them to improve themselves in a sustainable way.
Waarom Agile?
Agile werken kan je helpen om organisatiedoelen te bereiken. Agile tot een doel verheffen werkt meestal niet, het doel is om resultaten te bereiken, niet om agile te worden. Het is belangrijk om goed te weten waarom je de agility van je organisatie wilt vergroten en wat je met een agile werkwijze verwacht te bereiken.
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