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Ben Linders on Retrospectives as a systems thinking tool

Retrospectives are a systems thinking tool that can help you understand how teams are affected by the wider system. Ben explains his views on how to build that into the way you host and facilitate retrospectives.

About About Ben Linders

Ben Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile, Lean, Quality and Continuous Improvement, based in The Netherlands. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives & What Drives Quality.
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You can find Ben’s Agile self-assessment in his web-site, and find more about his work and upcoming workshops.

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Ben Linders asks you to answer: is the team working “as a team”?

Is the team working as a team? Or are they working in isolation, and come together only occasionally to “report their work”? And how can you build an environment where teams can come together and work as teams?
In this episode we also mention the book Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen.

About About Ben Linders

You can find Ben’s Agile self-assessment in his web-site, and find more about his work and upcoming workshops.

Ben Linders asks you to look for mindset and beliefs when recruiting Scrum Masters

Mindset and beliefs when recruiting Scrum Masters are good indicators of the suitability of the candidates to the job at hand. Ben Linders explains why, and how to build that into the recruiting interview.
In this episode we mention Ben’s blog post on how sometimes it is better to do nothing.

About About Ben Linders

You can find Ben’s Agile self-assessment in his web-site, and find more about his work and upcoming workshops.

Ben Linders explains that Agile is not a process, and why that matters

Agile is not a process, and that is an important realization that all teams should reach at some point. But how to get them to that realization? How to help team members understand that Agile is not a set of recipes that you follow blindly?

About About Ben Linders

You can find Ben’s Agile self-assessment in his web-site, and find more about his work and upcoming workshops.

Ben Linders on how to detect when someone is not a team player

How do you handle people that are not team players? We hear often that our role as Scrum Masters is to help the team collaborate. How can we do that if some team members are not team players? Ben explains how he was able to detect that in one team and what he did about it.
In this episode we mention the book Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams & Projects, by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies, a book that can help you get a project or a team started in the right way.
Ben also mentions one of his blog posts on how to help teams form with the use of Futurespectives for team chartering.

About About Ben Linders

You can find Ben’s Agile self-assessment in his web-site, and find more about his work and upcoming workshops.