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Day 2 of the NIMA Masterclass Agile Marketing
Together with Marc Nieman, Misha van Hamersveld and Roald Tichelaar and Marielle Roozemond we provide the NIMA Mastercourse Agile Marketing Transformation. In this masterclass we discuss the agile mindset that most marketing teams adopt in the coming years to keep their way of work in line with the … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Training
Tagged Agile Consortium, Continues improvement, Marcom, marketing, Nima
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Great Tutorial at STARWest Conference
In October Jan Jaap Cannegieter and I will join forces again and host our successful Testmanagement in Agile Tutorial again. Although we have given this tutorial several times now, we always get positive feedback and feel that it is highly … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Built-In quality, Conferences, Scaling Agile, STAREast, Test management, Testing, Training
Tagged AGILE, Build Quality In, Built-In quality, safe, STARWest, test management, Test plan, Tutorial, Virtual Conference
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Virtual Agile Coach Awareness Training
Today we host the second day of our brand new Agile Coach awareness training. Together with Jeroen van Deelen, Han Niessing and Kelly Tchai I have been working hard on creating an on-line interactive training for agile coaches. After a … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Training
Tagged 3rd wave of agile, Agile coaching, Agile Maturity Scans, Agile transformation, challenges, Feature teams, Han Niessing, HanN, Jeroen van Deelen, Kelly Tchai, Multifunctional, Organising x-team review sessions, release planning, Roles in Scrum, virtual training
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Gamification of the DevOpsImprovement challenge
Yesterday we piloted the new DevOpsImprovement game. Many DevOps teams (and that includes the PO) are struggling with balancing between Development work, operational tasks and improvements. Depending on the organisational context and the team members, there often is a focus … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, DevOps, Training
Tagged Agile Day, CI / CD, Continues improvement, DevOps, Game, Serious Gaming, technical dept, Valori
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Tutorial on the Agile Testing Days – a brief introduction
I am really looking forward to host a tutorial on the Agile Testing Days this year. I will do this together with Jan Jaap Cannegieter, and with you. I you decide to participate. In order to persuade you to join … Continue reading
What makes the Agile tester….
In January I will host a session at the Spanish Test academy in Barcelona. On the program you’ll find sessions on exploratory testing, continues testing, working with Docker and Cucumber and many more. I will host a session on agile testing. … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Expo:QA, Testing, Training, Video
Tagged agile testing, Test Academy, What makes me an agile tester, workshop
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Test your roadmap
Within agile projects roadmaps are used to define the releases and get insight in de dependencies between the various teams that are working on the release. An example of a roadmap is given below. A roadmap is a one pager … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Getting more out of..., Training
Tagged AGILE, anko tijman, Cesario Ramos, challenging questions, Download, Epic, inspiration, MVP, Release Management, Road mapping, Roadmapping, subway mapping, subwaymap, Valori, workshop
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Survival techniques for testers, beyond the T-shape tester (part 2)
Last Wednesday (11 May) I gave a tutorial workshop at the testnet spring event. This was the similar workshop that Jan Jaap Cannegieter (see this earlier post for the results of this workshop) and I gave for the EuroSTAR conference last … Continue reading
Big Room Scrum battle (serious game with 400 participants)
January this year Valori organized a serious game for over 400 people. During the Scrum Battle participants experience the agile way of working. This video gives a impression of the simulation game that was held for over 400 people. They … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Scaling Agile, SCRUM, Training, Video
Tagged AGILE, Collaboration, Honig, PO Game, SCRUM, SCRUM battle, Serious Game, training, Valori
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Big Room Scrum Battle
Early January Valori hosted a big room serious game. This time we organised our Scrum Battle, agile simulation game with 44 teams. Altogether we played the game with 450+ participants. The mood was great, the participants enthusiastic and I love the … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, SCRUM, Training
Tagged AGILE, Big Room, Game simulation, PSM, SCRUM, SCRUM battle, Serious Game, Valori
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Product Owner Game: Experience the work of the PO
At Valori we developed a new serious game. Previous we had only the SCRUM battle, which gives delegates insight in the SCRUM process. It is a great success, but we missed a good interactive way to learn Product Owners, Stakeholders, Business managers … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, SCRUM, Training, Video
Tagged derk-jan de grood, Epic, Game Workshop, Marcel Schaar, PO, Product Backlog, Product Owner, Product vision, Release Management, SCRUM, SCRUM battle, Serious Game, training, Valori
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Join my EXPO:QA Tutorial in Madrid
On 9 June (less than two weeks from now) I will providing my Tutorial on Business and stakeholder needs. You are kindly invited to join me in Madrid. You wan’t to know what we will be talking about? On the … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Mobile, Training
Tagged disqualifiers, Expo:QA, KANO, Kano model, qualifiers, Tastewheel, testhuddle, Tutorial
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Testing Circus January Issue: the SCRUM Battle
Testing Circus is a free to download monthly International Software Testing Magazine. The magazine is subscribed by thousands of software testers worldwide. The January Issue has just been released. It contains many cool articles, among which my description of the SCRUM Battle. The SCRUM battle … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Training
Tagged AGILE, Game simulation, Introducing Agile, SCRUM, SCRUM battle, Serious Gaming, Testing Circus, Valori
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SCRUM Battle: Now you can experience the Agile way of working yourself
Yesterday I hosted the SCRUM Battle on the NoorderTest Conference (see my previous post: SCRUM Battle on NoorderTest 2014. Today I compiled footage from various battles into a one-minute+ impression. You can watch it here: The SCRUM battle is an ideal … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Training, Video
Tagged daily scrum, Game simulation, retrospective., review, SCRUM, SCRUM battle, Scrum master, Sprint planning meeting
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Derk-Jan de Grood 