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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Does your company have a just culture where people can ask questions without fear? Or do people feel unsafe? Are questions perceived as attacks to find the guilty ones? #psychologicalsafety Explore Psychological Safety with these coaching cards www.benlinders.com/shop/psychol...
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Psychological Safety Cards - Ben Linders
Over 60 Psychological Safety Cards; profound set of cards covering psychological safety from individual, team, and organizational perspective
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here's a digital deck of powerful questions cards to inspire your agile retrospectives and keep them valuable and effective! www.benlinders.com/shop/agile-m... Download now together with other agile coaching tools, and get a free paperback copy of my book on agile retrospectives.
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Agile Manifesto Retrospectives Questions Cards - Ben Linders
Powerful questions to inspire your agile retrospectives and keep them valuable and effective! 78 cards ready to use.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Agile Retrospectives Toolkit leanpub.com/b/agileretro... Featuring the bestselling book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives together with three Agile Coaching Tools (Retrospectives Bingo, Smells, and Questions) for improving your agile retrospectives - all in one buy on @leanpub :-)
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Agile Retrospectives Toolkit
Everything you need to spice up your Agile Retrospectives and keep them valuable! This bundle features the bestselling book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives together with three Agile…
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Agile Manifesto Retrospective Questions Cards www.benlinders.com/shop/agile-m... Question Cards based on the Agile Manifesto that can be used in Agile Retrospectives. Agile Coaches use these cards to coach people and teams as part of an agile transformation by asking thoughtful questions.
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Agile Manifesto Retrospectives Questions Cards - Ben Linders
Powerful questions to inspire your agile retrospectives and keep them valuable and effective! 78 cards ready to use.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Retrospective smells are signals that something might be going wrong in your retrospective that will impact the outcome Agile Retrospective Smells Cards help you recognize smells and act upon them by solving the problem or mitigating the impact www.benlinders.com/shop/agile-r...
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Agile Retrospective Smells Cards - Ben Linders
The Retrospective Smells Cards, for Scrum masters, agile coaches, and facilitators: recognize smells, solve problems and mitigate impact!
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you want to monitor how your teams are improving, then health checks and games can be very powerful tools www.benlinders.com/agile-self-a... The Agile Self-assessment Game is an Agile Coaching Tool for Improving the Agility of Your Teams and Organization.
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Agile Self-assessments - Ben Linders
Agile is a journey where you learn and improve continuously. Agile Self-assessments help teams to see where they are and take next steps to increase agility
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ideas, suggestions, and practical cases on Agile Self-assessments, to help teams do assessments and find ways to improve: www.amazon.com/dp/9492119161/ The Agile Self-assessment Game: An Agile Coaching Tool for Improving the Agility of Your Teams and Organization #book #agile
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Adopting agile? The Agile Self-assessment Game - Corporate Edition provides a game with coaching cards for teams to self-assess and improve their agility. Comes with training & Free Lifetime Support! www.benlinders.com/shop/agile-s...
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Agile Self-assessment Game - Corporate Edition - Ben Linders
The corporate edition: agile assessment game and expansion packs, playing instructions, experience stories, books, training, and free lifetime support
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The phrases on the Psychological Safety Cards help people to learn about the safety in their team or (part of the) organization: www.benlinders.com/shop/psychol... Use them to explore, understand, and investigate psychological safety. #agile #psychologicalsafety #gamification
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Psychological Safety Cards - Ben Linders
Over 60 Psychological Safety Cards; profound set of cards covering psychological safety from individual, team, and organizational perspective
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Create a shared understanding of Psychological Safety and explore how to improve it with these agile coaching cards Download: www.benlinders.com/shop/psychol... Facilitate discussions about values, behavior, opinions, and beliefs to foster healthy collaboration and effective teamwork
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Psychological Safety Cards - Ben Linders
Over 60 Psychological Safety Cards; profound set of cards covering psychological safety from individual, team, and organizational perspective
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Two innovative tools for online and on-site coaching: Culture Cards and Psychological Safety Cards They come with Free Lifetime Support from me personally! Find these and other Agile Coaching Tools and Games www.benlinders.com/downloads/ #agile #coaching #psychologicalsafety #culture
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Games and Coaching Cards by Ben Linders - Ben Linders
Download serious games and agile coaching cards by Ben Linders: self-assess agility, facilitate retrospectives, solve impediments, and coach.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Agile Coaching Tool: The Culture Cards www.benlinders.com/shop/culture... 90+ cards with words like “Empowering”, “Disengaged”, “Competitive" to discover an existing culture and define a desired culture Powerful and flexible for experienced change facilitators! #agile #psychologicalsafety
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Culture Cards - Ben Linders
The Culture Cards: a powerful and flexible "tool" for experienced facilitators that possess knowledge of cultural aspects and culture change.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Culture Cards: www.benlinders.com/shop/culture... Agile Coaching Tool for anyone who is involved in organizational culture change Buy them with The Psychological Safety Cards www.benlinders.com/shop/psychol... A profound and extensive set of phrases that cover many aspects of psychological safety
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Culture Cards - Ben Linders
The Culture Cards: a powerful and flexible "tool" for experienced facilitators that possess knowledge of cultural aspects and culture change.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Serious games, tools, and coaching cards: get them directly from my webshop! www.benlinders.com/shop/ Agile Self-Assessment Game, Psychological Safety Cards, Culture Cards, Impediments Games and Cards, Books, and more.
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Agile Coaching Tools by Ben Linders
Get your agile coaching tools in this webshop. Including books about Agile, the Agile Self-Assessment Game, & Many Coaching Cards.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Does your company have a psychologically safe culture where people can ask questions and be themselves at all times? Or do people feel unsafe and don't dare to ask anything? #psychologicalsafety www.benlinders.com/shop/psychol...
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Psychological Safety Cards - Ben Linders
Over 60 Psychological Safety Cards; profound set of cards covering psychological safety from individual, team, and organizational perspective
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Looking for ways to assess and improve psychological safety in your team/ organization? There are over 60 sentences on many aspects of Psychological Safety in this digital card deck: www.benlinders.com/shop/psychol... #psychologicalsafety #agile #retrospectives #coaching
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In November, I'm returning to Agile Testing Days to give a workshop on hashtag #psychologicalsafety #AgileTD agiletestingdays.com/2026/session... Want to join this awesome event? Use ATD-2026-180-Ben to get €180 off! Will I see you in Potsdam?
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Agile Testing Days | Europe’s Greatest Agile Software Testing Festival
Join Europe's leading software testing festival! Experience world-class keynotes, workshops & the unique Unicorn Spirit at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Great news! I'm returning to Agile Testing Days to give a workshop on #psychologicalsafety agiletestingdays.com/2026/session... Care to join this awesome event? Use ATD-2026-180-Ben to get €180 off the cheapest tickets. Will I see you in Potsdam?
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Agile Testing Days | Europe’s Greatest Agile Software Testing Festival
Join Europe's leading software testing festival! Experience world-class keynotes, workshops & the unique Unicorn Spirit at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Great news! I'm returning to Agile Testing Days to give a workshop on #psychologicalsafety agiletestingdays.com/2026/session... Care to join this awesome event? Use ATD-2026-180-Ben to get €180 off the cheapest tickets. Will I see you in Potsdam?
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Agile Testing Days | Europe’s Greatest Agile Software Testing Festival
Join Europe's leading software testing festival! Experience world-class keynotes, workshops & the unique Unicorn Spirit at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Announced: Workshop Collaborative Problem-solving at DevOpsCon Berlin - Ben Linders www.benlinders.com/event/worksh... Let’s make teams better at fixing what’s really broken—fast and together.
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Workshop Collaborative Problem-solving at DevOpsCon Berlin - Ben Linders
I'm giving a workshop on collaborative problem solving at the transformation day at DevOpsCon Berlin on June 15, 2026. Book your seat.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Boost your team's collaborative problem-solving skills through hands-on games, exercises, and coaching cards. Learn to spot and address issues early, foster psychological safety, and empower everyone to speak up and contribute. Masterclass Collaborative Problem-solving gotocph.com/2026/masterc...
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Collaborative Problem-solving – Establishing a Culture With Working Practices to Deal Effectively With Impediments
Masterclass with Ben Linders at GOTO Copenhagen 2026
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Announced: Workshop Collaborative Problem-solving at Goto CPH 2026 www.benlinders.com/event/worksh... I’m returning to GOTO Copenhagen to give the workshop Collaborative Problem-solving – Establishing a Culture With Working Practices to Deal Effectively With Impediments on September 28-29, 2026.
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Workshop Collaborative Problem-solving at Goto CPH 2026 - Ben Linders
I'm returning to GOTO Copenhagen to give the workshop Collaborative Problem-solving – Establishing a Culture With Working Practices to Deal Effectively With Impediments on September 28-29, 2026.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Artificial intelligence excels at refining language and processing large text volumes, but lacks human-like contextual reasoning and emotional intelligence. Experiences from Using AI as a Software Architect - InfoQ www.infoq.com/news/2025/07...
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Experiences from Using AI as a Software Architect
Artificial intelligence excels at refining language and processing large text volumes, but lacks human-like contextual reasoning and emotional intelligence, Avraham Poupko said. Many human traits…
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I’m giving the workshop Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety at DevOpsCon Munich Transformation Day, December 1. Book your seat. www.benlinders.com/event/worksh...
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Workshop Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety - Ben Linders
I'm giving the workshop Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety at DevOpsCon Munich Transformation Day.
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InfoQ @infoq.com · 09/09/2025
🙏 Special thanks to our panelists for sharing their insights: @courtneynash.bsky.social – Internet Incident Librarian & Research Analyst, The VOID Mandy Gu – Sr. Software Development Manager, Wealthsimple Hien Luu – Sr. Engineering Manager, Zoox Moderated by @benlinders.bsky.social , InfoQ Editor
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Announced: Workshop Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety I’m giving the workshop Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety at DevOpsCon Munich Transformation Day, December 1. Book your seat. www.benlinders.com/event/worksh...
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Workshop Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety - Ben Linders
I'm giving the workshop Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety at DevOpsCon Munich Transformation Day.
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Richard Seidl - Future Optimist - People & Tech Enthusiast @richard-seidl.com · 03/07/2025
Ben Linders’ wisdom: “Culture is how we do things around here.” It’s not just rules or ceremonies - it’s what people truly experience day to day. Great teams aren’t built by accident. tul.fm/e4js
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Xin Yao @settling-mud.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Recent interview by InfoQ (🙏 @benlinders.bsky.social) about sociotechnical fitness. www.infoq.com/news/2025/05.... We talked about what it means to engage with sociotechnical complexity as a first-order challenge — not just treat it as a gnawing byproduct of scaling software or organizations.
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How a Sociotechnical Approach Can Help to Deal with Complexity
Today’s software professionals navigate a maze of technical, business, and social complexity. According to Xin Yao, thriving in this environment requires more than just technical and business expertis...
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
My Thursday @infoq.com news from @qconferences.com London about How to Develop Your Skills to Become a Principal Engineer www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The Agile Retrospectives Toolkit - Best selling book and three games for $29.99! buff.ly/490lMKY Contains Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives with Agile Manifesto Retrospectives Questions Cards, Agile Retrospectives Bingo, and Agile Retrospective Smells Cards.
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Agile Retrospectives Toolkit
Everything you need to spice up your Agile Retrospectives and keep them valuable! This bundle features the bestselling book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives together with three Agile…
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Knihy a hry Bena Linderse v češtině buff.ly/42sQ7jm Abych mohl sdílet své znalosti a zkušenosti s lidmi po celém světě, moje knihy a hry jsou přeloženy do mnoha jazyků. #agile #coaching #tools #books #games #Czech #Scrum #DevOps #Kanban
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Knihy a hry Bena Linderse v češtině - Ben Linders
This page describes all Czech editions of my games and books. Agilní sebehodnotící hra, Jak zvýšit přínos agilních retrospektiv.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I deliver agile training and workshops, provide advice, play games and exercises, and do professional coaching and mentoring buff.ly/48fMDSj For Tech Startups, IT Companies, Software Development Professionals, and Agile Teams around the world. #sustainable #improvement
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Services by Ben Linders - Ben Linders
My strength is sustainable improvement: Helping people, teams, and organizations to get better at what they do and making change stick to get lasting value.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Games and Coaching Cards by Ben Linders buff.ly/4bMs6Yd Including coaching cards and serious games for problem-solving and dealing effectively with impediments in teams. Download and start playing in your team! #agile #coaching #impediments #gamification
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Games and Coaching Cards by Ben Linders - Ben Linders
Download serious games and agile coaching cards by Ben Linders: self-assess agility, facilitate retrospectives, solve impediments, and coach.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Personal qualities cards help teams improve by playing games buff.ly/3vmkiML Personal Qualities cards are an Agile Coaching Tool for agile coaches, consultants, trainers, Scrum masters, leaders, and managers, and teams; anyone involved in organizational change
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Personal qualities cards help teams improve by playing games - Ben Linders
Personal Qualities Cards can be used to identify and discuss qualities or personality traits that people have.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
If you bought my book The Agile Self-assessment Game on Amazon then buy the cards to play the games in my webshop. buff.ly/4bgYjpH Cards on #agile #Scrum #Kanban #DevOps #agility #Testing #psychologicalsafety #culture & more #gamification #facilitation
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InfoQ @infoq.com · 09/05/2025
👏 Kudos to our brilliant contributors: Shane Hastie Charity Majors - @charity.wtf Ben Linders - @benlinders.bsky.social Rafiq Gemmail Craig Smith
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Kick-off training for Agile Coaching Tools buff.ly/3Wm9kBB Learn how to coach teams using exercises and games with coaching cards. An online live personal workshop! Book it now! #gamification #teamworking #coaching #scrummaster #retrospectives #agile
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Kick-off training for Agile Coaching Tools - Ben Linders
To get started using my Agile Coaching Tools, I'm providing personal Kick-off Training: An online live one-hour workshop. Book it now!
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Serious games, tools, and coaching cards, get them directly from my webshop! buff.ly/40o3Xnt Agile Self-Assessment Game, Psychological Safety Cards, Culture Cards, Impediments Games and Cards, Books, and more.
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Download serious games and agile coaching cards by Ben Linders: self-assess agility, facilitate retrospectives, solve impediments, and coach.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
People like to play games, it brings out their natural desires to socialize, self-express, and collaborate Play the Agile Self-assessment Game in your retrospective to guide your agile journey and increase agility buff.ly/3Y3MDna #agile #Self-assessment #game #quote
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Agile Self-assessment Game - Ben Linders
Playing the Agile Self-Assessment Game enables teams to reflect on their own team interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile journey.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Seven great books on agile games buff.ly/4hqhAZs The Agile Self-assessment Game, Actionable Gamification, lego4scrum: post-covid revision, A Coach's Guide to Facilitation, Collaboration Games, Agile Tools, Agile Practices: Agile Working 4.0, and The Coaching Booster
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agilegames
Seven great books on agile games: Many valuable exercises, tips on how to facilitate and play games, and ideas for working in and coaching agile teams. All in one buy for a largely reduced price! Books...
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Games and Coaching Cards by Ben Linders buff.ly/4giUOBD Including coaching cards and serious games for problem-solving and dealing effectively with impediments in teams. Download and start playing in your team! #agile #coaching #impediments #gamification
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Download serious games and agile coaching cards by Ben Linders: self-assess agility, facilitate retrospectives, solve impediments, and coach.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The Agile Self-assessment Game, available as paperback buff.ly/3Y2jze3 Download cards needed to play games: buff.ly/4dJO9yQ Cards packages for #agile #Scrum #Kanban #DevOps #BusinessAgility #Quality #Testing #PsychologicalSafety #Culture #book #gamification
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Download serious games and agile coaching cards by Ben Linders: self-assess agility, facilitate retrospectives, solve impediments, and coach.
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Visualize, discuss, self-asses, and improve Psychological Safety buff.ly/4gYzR0j Play with the cards to facilitate discussions about the values, behavior, opinions, and beliefs that underlie psychological safety #agile #coaching #tool #psychologicalsafety #download
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Psychological Safety Cards - Ben Linders
Over 60 Psychological Safety Cards; profound set of cards covering psychological safety from individual, team, and organizational perspective
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InfoQ @infoq.com · 15/04/2025
#AI doesn't replace testing roles; it enhances them! Predicting defects, automating test maintenance & refining risk-based testing are just a few ways AI collaborates with humans to maintain quality in complex software systems. Dive deeper into this topic: bit.ly/42e0iK5 #InfoQ #SoftwareTesting
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Thomas Much @thmuch.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
#InfoQ published my article about #FitnessFunctions 🤩 As writing isn't my easiest task, I'm really happy to have finished the text. Thanks to @benlinders.bsky.social for guiding me through the process & providing valuable feedback! What started as an interview turned into a full article. Thanks 😊🙏
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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 15/04/2013
Nice to see the Agile Retrospectives Wiki gets a shout out on the Gov.UK Govt Service Design Manual www.gov.uk/service-manual/agile/run…
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Luigi Berrettini @berrettini.bsky.social · 12/04/2014
Getting Value out of #Agile #Retrospectives by @lgoncalves1979 and @BenLinders Get your yourself a copy! #RetroValue leanpub.com/gettingvalueou…
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Dorota Parad @dorotaparad.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A while back I gave a talk on the tension between software security and developer productivity. @benlinders.bsky.social just published an awesome summary at @infoq.com: www.infoq.com/news/2025/02...
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Ensuring Security without Harming Software Development Productivity
Security can be at odds with a fast and efficient development process. At QCon San Francisco Dorota Parad presented how to create a foundation for security without negatively impacting engineering pro...
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InfoQ @infoq.com · 17/02/2025
In this #InfoQ panel discussion, industry experts explore how #GenerativeAI is: ✅ Boosting productivity ✅ Redefining the developer experience ✅ Shaping the future of software development Watch the full video now and gain valuable insights: bit.ly/4hEyGTx #transcript included
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Ben Linders @benlinders.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I'm giving both public and in-company workshops on Valuable Agile Retrospectives buff.ly/3LpqmZt Learn new exercises for your agile retrospectives, find out how to create a safe environment, and improve your facilitation skills #agile #retrospectives #workshop
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Workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives
The workshop Valuable Agile Retrospectives provide the solution for a succesful agile adoption at all levels in the organization. Learn exercises, practice your skills!
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