Develop Better Projects with Agile with Ben Linders

Many teams are adopting an agile way of working, for instance with Scrum. Their expectation is that agile will help them to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs, be more flexible, and deliver faster. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work that way. Working in teams and collaborating with your customers to get feedback is hard. It’s not about doing Scrum, it’s about effectively using agile practices to deliver value faster.

In the workshop Develop Better Products with Agile you will practice agile and learn how to apply it effectively:

Practice understanding and prioritizing customer’s needs.
Work in small teams to develop products iteratively.
Learn to gather valuable feedback with product reviews and demos.
See how to improve your way of working with agile retrospectives.
Find out how to effectively apply agile practices with an agile mindset.
The workshop is loaded with examples and suggestions to help you deliver the right products faster.

If your team(s) are

finding it difficult to understand your customer’s needs to decide on what to deliver when
not delivering working software or not able to finish user stories within a reasonable time
not getting feedback from customers and unsure if you are delivering value to your customers
having difficulties communicating and working together as a self-organized team
doing agile/Scrum/Kanban rituals but feeling that they are not always helpful
having difficulty to reflect and learn and get good actions out of your retrospective

then this is the workshop for you!

Learning by Doing

The practices that you will be using in the workshop Develop Better Products with Agile will help you to develop the right products for your business and customers, reduce your delivery time, increase the quality of your software products, and become a collaborative high-performing team.

You will practice:

Communicating with customers to build a backlog and slice it into small product pieces to deliver
Prioritize delivery using criteria like value, risk, learning, debt, dependencies, etc
Collaborating remotely to create products
Doing demo and feedback sessions to find out what customers think of your product
Facilitating retrospectives to learn and improve product development skills

Audience

The workshop Develop Better Products with Agile is intended for:

(Senior) Developers, Architects, UI/UX designers, and Testers
Product Owners/managers
Technical (team) leaders and Scrum masters
Project/Line Managers
(Business) Stakeholders working with agile teams
Agile and Lean Coaches
Anybody who is supporting teams in increasing their performance

Key-Learnings

Become better at understanding what your customers really need
Skills for prioritizing product development to deliver more value faster
Ability to do product reviews/demos to get valuable feedback
Ways to reflect and learn to increase the performance of your teams