Ben Linders

A deck of coaching cards released April 2021 on psychological safety, providing a profound and extensive set of phrases that cover many aspects of psychological safety from an individual, team, and organizational perspective. Cards can be downloaded from my webshop.

Discussions about the values, behavior, opinions, and beliefs that underlie psychological safety are essential to foster healthy collaboration and effective teamwork. Low psychological safety blocks change. If you want people… Meer weergeven

A deck of coaching cards released April 2021 on psychological safety, providing a profound and extensive set of phrases that cover many aspects of psychological safety from an individual, team, and organizational perspective. Cards can be downloaded from my webshop.

Discussions about the values, behavior, opinions, and beliefs that underlie psychological safety are essential to foster healthy collaboration and effective teamwork. Low psychological safety blocks change. If you want people to take initiative and improve things, you need to work on establishing conditions where people feel psychologically safe to take the first steps.

The Psychological Safety Cards can be used to visualize, discuss, self-assess, and improve psychological safety inside teams and increase team morale. They enable exploring factors that influence psychological safety in an engaged and safe way and can help to create a shared understanding of safety.

Cards developed by Ben Linders and Fabio Armani, reviewed by people from the worldwide agile community.

The cards are an Agile Coaching Tool for facilitators, Agile coaches, consultants, trainers, Scrum masters, leaders, and managers; basically anyone who is involved in helping people and organizations perform better. They can be used by teams for self-assessments and reflections and in retrospectives. Agile coaches and managers can use these cards to facilitate valuable discussions on topics related to psychological safety.

Packages that you can download for a nominal fee consist of PDF and jpeg files with 62 numbered cards and examples and ideas for playing with the cards. Both online (remote coaching) and onsite usage is supported. There’s also an add-on package of Culture Cards that can be used to help people to discover their existing culture or define a wanted or required culture.

The cards have been translated into the following languages:

Italian: Carte per la Sicurezza Psicologica
Nederlands: Psychologische Veiligheid Kaarten Minder weergeven

This is the first book specifically about dealing with impediments using agile thinking with problem-solving practices. In this book, I explain why dealing with impediments matters and provide approaches to deal effectively with impediments in teams and beyond the teams. I’m also sharing experience stories from my work as a team member, Scrum master, project leader, consultant, coach, adviser, and trainer.

It's a book for book is for agile teams, Scrum masters, tech leads, agile coaches,… Meer weergeven

This is the first book specifically about dealing with impediments using agile thinking with problem-solving practices. In this book, I explain why dealing with impediments matters and provide approaches to deal effectively with impediments in teams and beyond the teams. I’m also sharing experience stories from my work as a team member, Scrum master, project leader, consultant, coach, adviser, and trainer.

It's a book for book is for agile teams, Scrum masters, tech leads, agile coaches, consultants, developers and testers, project managers, line managers, and CxOs; basically, anyone who is looking for an effective way to handle impediments or support people in doing that.

This is a practical book with many techniques and ideas to apply in your specific situations. It aims to support professionals that want to improve their impediment handling skills. Minder weergeven

The Agile Testing Coaching Cards can be used by agile teams to explore their way of testing and define actions to improve it.

For agile teams, developers and testers, Tech leads, test consultants, Architects, Product Owners, Scrum masters, Agile coaches, and anyone involved or being responsible for testing software or delivering high-quality products.

Format: PDF file with images for 99 cards and playing suggestion
Language: English

De Agile Zelfevaluatie Kaarten kunnen door teams en organisaties worden gebruikt om zelf hun agility te beoordelen. Met deze game kunnen teams ontdekken hoe agile ze zijn en wat ze kunnen doen om hun agility te vergroten om meer waarde te leveren aan hun klanten en stakeholders.

Agile coaches gebruiken zelfevaluaties in agile transformaties om teams te begeleiden en hen te leren wat agile is en helpen om hun eigen weg te vinden.

De Agile Zelfevaluatie Kaarten van Ben Linders is de… Meer weergeven

De Agile Zelfevaluatie Kaarten kunnen door teams en organisaties worden gebruikt om zelf hun agility te beoordelen. Met deze game kunnen teams ontdekken hoe agile ze zijn en wat ze kunnen doen om hun agility te vergroten om meer waarde te leveren aan hun klanten en stakeholders.

Agile coaches gebruiken zelfevaluaties in agile transformaties om teams te begeleiden en hen te leren wat agile is en helpen om hun eigen weg te vinden.

De Agile Zelfevaluatie Kaarten van Ben Linders is de Nederlandstalige editie van het succesvolle Agile Self-assessment Game. Minder weergeven

With plenty of ideas, suggestions, and practical cases on software quality, this book will help you to improve the quality of your software and to deliver high-quality products to your users and satisfy the needs of your customers and stakeholders.

Forewords by Bill Curtis and Jan van Moll

What Drives Quality explores how quality plays a role in all of the software development activities. It takes a deep dive into quality by listing the relevant factors of development and… Meer weergeven

With plenty of ideas, suggestions, and practical cases on software quality, this book will help you to improve the quality of your software and to deliver high-quality products to your users and satisfy the needs of your customers and stakeholders.

Forewords by Bill Curtis and Jan van Moll

What Drives Quality explores how quality plays a role in all of the software development activities. It takes a deep dive into quality by listing the relevant factors of development and management activities that drive the quality of software products. It provides a lean approach to quality by analyzing the full development chain from customer requests to delivering products to users.

I'm aiming this book at software developers and testers, architects, product owners and managers, agile coaches, Scrum masters, project managers, and operational and senior managers who consider quality to be important.

A book on quality should be practical. It should help you, the reader of this book, to improve the quality of your software and deliver better products. It should inspire you and give you energy to persevere on your quality journey. What drives quality tries to do just that, and more.

This book is based on my experience as a developer, tester, team leader, project manager, quality manager, process manager, consultant, coach, trainer, and adviser in Agile, Lean, Quality and Continuous Improvement. It takes a deep dive into quality with views from different perspectives and provides ideas, suggestions, practices, and experiences that will help you to improve quality of the products that your organization is delivering. Minder weergeven

Kniha „Jak zvýšit přínos agilních retrospektiv“ s řadou retrospektivních technik vám pomůže stát se zběhlejšími ve vedení retrospektiv a získat z nich více. Úvodní slovo napsali Esther Derby (spoluautorka knihy Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great), Zuzana „Zuzi“ Šochová a Jaroslav Procházka – uznávaní čeští agilní evangelisté.

Představujeme vám novou knihu s mnohými technikami, které lze použít pro vedení agilních retrospektiv. Dočtete se o tom, „co“ a „jak“ při retrospektivách… Meer weergeven

Kniha „Jak zvýšit přínos agilních retrospektiv“ s řadou retrospektivních technik vám pomůže stát se zběhlejšími ve vedení retrospektiv a získat z nich více. Úvodní slovo napsali Esther Derby (spoluautorka knihy Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great), Zuzana „Zuzi“ Šochová a Jaroslav Procházka – uznávaní čeští agilní evangelisté.

Představujeme vám novou knihu s mnohými technikami, které lze použít pro vedení agilních retrospektiv. Dočtete se o tom, „co“ a „jak“ při retrospektivách dělat, jakou hodnotu a jaké výhody organizaci přinášejí a dáme vám rady ohledně zavedení retrospektiv ve vašich týmech a jejich neustálého zlepšování.

Tato kniha je k dostání také v angličtině: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives.

Tato kniha je určena pro agilní kouče, scrum mastery, projektové manažery, produktové manažery a facilitátory, kteří už mají s retrospektivami nějaké zkušenosti.

Ukážeme vám výsledky naší půlroční práce s agilní komunitou, abychom vám i týmům po celém světě pomohli dosáhnout zlepšení v praktikování retrospektiv. Minder weergeven

The Agile Self-Assessment Game can be used by teams and organizations to self assess their agility. Playing the game enables teams to reflect on their own team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. With this game they can discover how agile they are and what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders.

Avec une large panoplie d'activités, Tirer profit des rétrospectives agiles vous aidera à devenir plus efficace dans l'animation de rétrospectives et d'en retirer davantage.

Cet ouvrage contient de nombreuses activités que vous pourrez mettre en pratique pour faciliter vos rétrospectives, en s’appuyant sur le “quoi” et le “pourquoi” des rétrospectives, la Valeur Métier (Business Value) et les bénéfices qu’ils peuvent vous apporter, ainsi que des conseils pour mettre en place et… Meer weergeven

Avec une large panoplie d'activités, Tirer profit des rétrospectives agiles vous aidera à devenir plus efficace dans l'animation de rétrospectives et d'en retirer davantage.

Cet ouvrage contient de nombreuses activités que vous pourrez mettre en pratique pour faciliter vos rétrospectives, en s’appuyant sur le “quoi” et le “pourquoi” des rétrospectives, la Valeur Métier (Business Value) et les bénéfices qu’ils peuvent vous apporter, ainsi que des conseils pour mettre en place et améliorer vos rétrospectives.

Ce livre est destiné aux coachs agiles, scrum masters, project managers, product managers et facilitateurs qui ont un minimum d'expérience avec les rétrospectives: ils connaissent l'objectif des rétrospectives, comment elles s'insèrent dans l'agilité, comment les préparer et les animer. Au cours des années, nous avons conduit beaucoup de types différents de rétrospectives. Nous pensons que cela aide lorsque l'on développe sa propre boite à outil de rétrospectives.

Ce livre est une traduction en français de Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives par Ben Linders et Luis Gonçalves, avec d'avant-propos d'Esther Derby et Alexandre Boutin. Minder weergeven

Este libro es una traducción al Español de Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, que fue escrito originalmente en Inglés. Prólogo de Esther Derby y Angel Medinilla.

Este libro contiene muchos ejercicios que puedes utilizar para facilitar retrospectivas ágiles, apoyados con el "qué" y el "por qué" de las retrospectivas, el valor para negocio y los beneficios que aportan, así como asesoramiento para introducir y mejorar las retrospectivas .

Orientamos este libro a agile… Meer weergeven

Este libro es una traducción al Español de Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, que fue escrito originalmente en Inglés. Prólogo de Esther Derby y Angel Medinilla.

Este libro contiene muchos ejercicios que puedes utilizar para facilitar retrospectivas ágiles, apoyados con el "qué" y el "por qué" de las retrospectivas, el valor para negocio y los beneficios que aportan, así como asesoramiento para introducir y mejorar las retrospectivas .

Orientamos este libro a agile coaches, scrum masters, directores de proyecto, gerentes de producto y facilitadores que tengan por lo menos un poco de experiencia en la realización de las retrospectivas. Ellos saben la finalidad de la retrospectiva, cómo encajan en ágil y la forma de organizar y llevarlas a cabo. Minder weergeven

Rally Software and Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) are researching the impact of agile software development practices using data from Rally’s Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform.

InfoQ interviewed Larry Maccherone, Director of Analytics at Rally, and Jim McCurley, Senior Researcher at the SEI, about the collaboration between the SEI and Rally, the measurements included in the study, conclusions from the analysis and their plans for further… Meer weergeven

Rally Software and Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) are researching the impact of agile software development practices using data from Rally’s Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform.

InfoQ interviewed Larry Maccherone, Director of Analytics at Rally, and Jim McCurley, Senior Researcher at the SEI, about the collaboration between the SEI and Rally, the measurements included in the study, conclusions from the analysis and their plans for further research. Minder weergeven

Understanding Software Quality to Prevent Problems.

A book helping you to prevent software problems from happening by building an shared understanding what drives software quality. It enables you to effectively take actions, saving time and money!

Dit is het 1e Nederlandstalige Agile boek voor het faciliteren van retrospectives. Met vele oefeningen, het "wat" en "waarom" van retrospectives, de business value en de voordelen die retrospectives brengen. En bovendien met tips en adviezen voor het introduceren en verbeteren van retrospectives.

Voorwoorden van Esther Derby (Agile Retrospectives) en Arie van Bennekum (Agile Manifesto).

Het is een boek voor agile coaches, Scrum masters, project managers, product managers en… Meer weergeven

Dit is het 1e Nederlandstalige Agile boek voor het faciliteren van retrospectives. Met vele oefeningen, het "wat" en "waarom" van retrospectives, de business value en de voordelen die retrospectives brengen. En bovendien met tips en adviezen voor het introduceren en verbeteren van retrospectives.

Voorwoorden van Esther Derby (Agile Retrospectives) en Arie van Bennekum (Agile Manifesto).

Het is een boek voor agile coaches, Scrum masters, project managers, product managers en facilitators die al enige ervaring hebben met retrospectives.

Dit boek is een vertaling in het Nederlands van Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives. Minder weergeven

A book full of exercises to facilitate retrospectives, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they can bring you, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. Foreword by Esther Derby, co-author of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great.

With plenty of exercises for your retrospective toolbox, this book will help you to become more proficient in doing retrospectives, and to get more value out of them.

Publications on Quality, Root Cause Analysis, Agile, Lean, Scrum, Six Sigma, Retrospectives, etc are shared on my website: www.benlinders.com

Business needs for process improvement projects are changing. Organizations expect faster results from their investments; they want their improvement projects to adapt to and follow changing business needs and be more engrained with the organizational way of working. The agile way of working, used more and more in software development, contains several mechanism that support these business needs. So the question is: Could a process
improvement project be performed in an agile way and what… Meer weergeven

Business needs for process improvement projects are changing. Organizations expect faster results from their investments; they want their improvement projects to adapt to and follow changing business needs and be more engrained with the organizational way of working. The agile way of working, used more and more in software development, contains several mechanism that support these business needs. So the question is: Could a process
improvement project be performed in an agile way and what would be the benefits? Minder weergeven

Business Case voor Verbeteren van Kwaliteit, Agile Requirements

CMMI ?roadmaps?, which are a goal-driven approach to selecting and deploying relevant process areas from the CMMI-DEV model, can provide guidance and focus for effective CMMI adoption. The Dutch Software Process Improvement (SPIder) network convened a workshop in November 2006 to develop several CMMI roadmaps for the continuous representation, each with a specific set of improvement goals. These roadmaps combine the strengths of both the staged and the continuous representations.