Getting Value Out Of Agile Retrospectives A Toolbox Of Retrospective Exercises

Author : Luis Gonçalves
Publisher : Ben Linders Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9492119072
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives written by Luis Gonçalves and published by Ben Linders Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives helps you and your teams to do retrospectives effectively and efficiently. It's a toolbox with many exercises for facilitating retrospectives, supported with the "what" and "why" of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they bring, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. If you are a Scrum master, agile coach, project manager, product manager or facilitator then this book helps you to discover and apply new ways to do Valuable Agile Retrospectives with your teams. With plenty of exercises you can develop your own personal Retrospectives Toolbox to become more proficient in doing retrospectives and get more out of them.

Author : Esther Derby
Publisher : Pragmatic Bookshelf
ISBN 13 : 1680503103
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agile Retrospectives written by Esther Derby and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2006-07-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as “post-mortems”) are only held at the end of the project—too late to help. You need agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental. You need to accurately find and fix problems to help the team today. Now Esther and Diana show you the tools, tricks and tips you need to fix the problems you face on a software development project on an on-going basis. You’ll see how to architect retrospectives in general, how to design them specifically for your team and organization, how to run them effectively, how to make the needed changes and how to scale these techniques up. You’ll learn how to deal with problems, and implement solutions effectively throughout the project—not just at the end. This book will help you: Design and run effective retrospectives Learn how to find and fix problems Find and reinforce team strengths Address people issues as well as technological Use tools and recipes proven in the real world With regular tune-ups, your team will hum like a precise, world-class orchestra.

Author : Norman L. Kerth
Publisher : Addison-Wesley
ISBN 13 : 0133488748
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Project Retrospectives written by Norman L. Kerth and published by Addison-Wesley. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the digital copy of the printed booik (Copyright © 2001). With detailed scenarios, imaginative illustrations, and step-by-step instructions, consultant and speaker Norman L. Kerth guides readers through productive, empowering retrospectives of project performance. Whether your shop calls them postmortems or postpartums or something else, project retrospectives offer organizations a formal method for preserving the valuable lessons learned from the successes and failures of every project. These lessons and the changes identified by the community will foster stronger teams and savings on subsequent efforts. For a retrospective to be effective and successful, though, it needs to be safe. Kerth shows facilitators and participants how to defeat the fear of retribution and establish an air of mutual trust. One tool is Kerth's Prime Directive: Regardless of what we discover, we must understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job he or she could, given what was known at the time, his or her skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand. Applying years of experience as a project retrospective facilitator for software organizations, Kerth reveals his secrets for managing the sensitive, often emotionally charged issues that arise as teams relive and learn from each project.

Author : Ben Linders
Publisher : Ben Linders Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9492119153
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Agile Self-assessment Game written by Ben Linders and published by Ben Linders Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agile Self-Assessment Game is used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing the game enables teams to reflect on their own team interworking, discover how agile they are and decide what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. This is the first book specifically about Agile Self-assessments. In this book, Ben Linders explains what self-assessments are and why you would do them, and explores how to do them using the Agile Self-assessment Game. He's also sharing experience stories from people who played the game. This book is based on his 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 self-assessments, viewing them from different perspectives and provides ideas, suggestions, practices, and experiences that will help you to do effective agile self-assessments with your teams. The book is aimed at Scrum masters, agile coaches, consultants leading agile transformations, developers and testers, project managers, line managers, and CxOs; basically for anyone who is looking for an effective way to help their agile teams improve and to increase the agility of their organization. With plenty of ideas, suggestions, and practical cases on Agile Self-assessments, this book will help you to apply assessments and help teams to improve. Note: The agile coaching cards needed to play the games described in the book can be downloaded for a nominal fee at benlinders.com/downloads.

Author : Ben Linders
Publisher : Ben Linders Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9492119145
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Drives Quality written by Ben Linders and published by Ben Linders Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Many methods for product quality improvement start by investigating the problems, and then work their way back to the point where the problem started. For instance audits and root cause analysis work this way. But what if you could prevent problems from happening, by building an understanding what drives quality, thus enabling to take action before problems actually occur? 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. This book views software quality from an engineering, management, and social perspective. It explores the interaction between all involved in delivering high-quality software to users and provides ideas to do it quicker and at lower costs.

Author : Jurgen Appelo
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0321712471
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management 3.0 written by Jurgen Appelo and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many organizations, management is the biggest obstacle to successful Agile development. Unfortunately, reliable guidance on Agile management has been scarce indeed. Now, leading Agile manager Jurgen Appelo fills that gap, introducing a realistic approach to leading, managing, and growing your Agile team or organization. Writing for current managers and developers moving into management, Appelo shares insights that are grounded in modern complex systems theory, reflecting the intense complexity of modern software development. Appelo's Management 3.0 model recognizes that today's organizations are living, networked systems; and that management is primarily about people and relationships. Management 3.0 doesn't offer mere checklists or prescriptions to follow slavishly; rather, it deepens your understanding of how organizations and Agile teams work and gives you tools to solve your own problems. Drawing on his extensive experience as an Agile manager, the author identifies the most important practices of Agile management and helps you improve each of them. Coverage includes • Getting beyond “Management 1.0” control and “Management 2.0” fads • Understanding how complexity affects your organization • Keeping your people active, creative, innovative, and motivated • Giving teams the care and authority they need to grow on their own • Defining boundaries so teams can succeed in alignment with business goals • Sowing the seeds for a culture of software craftsmanship • Crafting an organizational network that promotes success • Implementing continuous improvement that actually works Thoroughly pragmatic–and never trendy–Jurgen Appelo's Management 3.0 helps you bring greater agility to any software organization, team, or project.

Author : Zuzana Sochova
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 0134657659
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great ScrumMaster written by Zuzana Sochova and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. The Fast, Focused, Practical Guide to Excellence with Scrum The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay is your complete guide to becoming an exceptionally effective ScrumMaster and using Scrum to dramatically improve team and organizational performance. Easy to digest and highly visual, you can read it in a weekend...and use it for an entire career. Drawing on 15 years of pioneering experience implementing Agile and Scrum and helping others do so, Zuzana Šochová guides you step by step through all key facets of success as a ScrumMaster in any context. Šochová reviews the ScrumMaster’s responsibilities, introduces her powerful State of Mind model and #ScrumMasterWay approach, and teaches crucial metaskills that every ScrumMaster needs. Learn how to build more effective teams, manage change in Agile environments, and take fulladvantage of the immensely powerful ScrumMaster toolbox. Throughout, Šochová illuminates each concept with practical, proven examples that show how to move from idea to successful execution. Understand the ScrumMaster’s key role in creating high-performance self-organizing teams Master all components of the ScrumMaster State of Mind: teaching/mentoring, removing impediments, facilitation, and coaching Operate effectively as a ScrumMaster at all levels: team, relationships, and the entire system Sharpen key ScrumMaster cognitive strategies and core competencies Build great teams, and improve teams that are currently dysfunctional Drive deeper change in a safer environment with better support for those affected Make the most of Shu Ha Ri, System Rule, Root Cause Analysis, Impact Mapping, and other ScrumMaster tools Whether you’re a long-time Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or participating in your first Scrum project, this guide will help you leverage world-class insight in all you do and get the outstanding results you’re looking for. Register your product at informit.com/register for convenient access to downloads, updates, and corrections as they become available

Author : Joe Morone
Publisher : Worldleaders Media Group
ISBN 13 : 9780999657607
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smart Sales Method written by Joe Morone and published by Worldleaders Media Group. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smart Sales Method provides B2B Technology Sales Teams with a client-facing sales methodology designed specifically for organizations that sell complex offerings in a highly competitive marketplace, and for the CEOs and Sales Leaders who feel their organizations have not yet won their fair share of their potential market. When fully implemented, the B2B sales team applying the Smart Sales Method will be utilizing a statistically supported sales method for developing more pipeline and closing more sales. Written by the leadership team of Worldleaders Sales Solutions' co-founder and lead Sales Trainer Joe Morone, co-founder and Outsourced Sales Recruiting leader Karen Benjamin, and Account Manager Marty Smith, The Smart Sales Method is a step-by-step approach for CEOs and sales leaders of B2B technology companies who are determined to improve their sales results. Learn more at www.worldleaderssales.com. Message from author Joe Morone: This book is not for everyone. This book is for the CEOs and Sales Leaders who feel their organizations have not yet won their fair share of their potential market. You have great products/services. You've amassed a dedicated team. You have loyal clients realizing tangible success with your offerings. But improving sales results remains your most elusive challenge. You did everything right. You hired experienced salespeople. You compensated them fairly and invested time and money into their training. Yet you're still not seeing the sales growth you know the company deserves. Smart Selling for B2B Technology Sales Teams is a client-facing sales methodology designed specifically for organizations that sell complex offerings in a highly competitive marketplace. When fully implemented, your sales team will be utilizing a statistically supported sales method for developing more pipeline and closing more sales. Let's get on the path of exponential year-over-year sales growth... so that you can win your fair share. I will be with you every step of the way. Just call me at (585) 732-5666 or email me at [email protected]. Joe Morone, Principal, Worldleaders Inc. www.worldleaderssales.com

Author : Alastair Walker
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030280055
Total Pages : 771 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement written by Alastair Walker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement, EuroSPI conference, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in September 2019. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. They are organized in topical sections: Visionary Papers, SPI and Safety and Security, SPI and Assessments, SPI and Future Qualification & Team Performance, and SPI Manifesto and Culture. The selected workshop papers are also presented and organized in following topical sections: GamifySPI, Digitalisation of Industry, Infrastructure and E-Mobility. -Best Practices in Implementing Traceability. -Good and Bad Practices in Improvement. -Functional Safety and Cybersecurity. -Experiences with Agile and Lean. -Standards and Assessment Models. -Team Skills and Diversity Strategies. -Recent Innovations.

Author : Adam Przybyłek
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030670848
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lean and Agile Software Development written by Adam Przybyłek and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development, LASD 2021, which was held online on January 23, 2021. The conference received a total of 32 submissions, of which 10 full and 2 short papers are included in this volume. In addition, one keynote paper is also included. To live the agile mindset, the LASD conference focuses on highly relevant research outcomes and fosters their way into practice. Topics discussed in this volume range from teams under COVID-19 through women in Agile, to product road-mapping and non-functional requirements.