Author Archives: Ben Linders

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. As an adviser, coach and trainer he helps organizations by deploying effective software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement, collaboration and communication, and professional development, to deliver business value to customers. Ben is an active member of networks on Agile, Lean and Quality, and a frequent speaker and writer. He shares his experience in a bilingual blog (Dutch and English), as an editor for Agile at InfoQ and as an expert on TechTarget. Follow him on twitter: @BenLinders

Success Factors for Using Scrum and Getting BenefitsSucces factoren van het gebruiken van Scrum en voordelen hieruit halenFramgångsfaktorer av att använda Scrum och få ut fördelar av det Erfolgsfaktoren für die Nutzung von Scrum und davon profitieren

12 August 2013 Agile outsourcing

There are organization who struggle to get Scrum implemented and used, and have difficulties to adopt agile ways of working. While the Scrum framework looks simple, getting people to work in an agile way with Scrum and getting benefits out of it appears to be difficult for some organizations. But I also see organizations that are successful with Scrum and agile, and which have found better ways to implement it.

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Agile Retrospectives, an Effective Tool for Continuous Improvement

2 April 2013 Offshoring

Most teams that are doing agile development and are using Scrum have heard about agile retrospectives. Often they also start doing retrospectives after one or more sprints. Some teams keep on doing them, but I’ve heard a lot of teams …

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Agile Processes

10 December 2012 Outsourcing

In my work as an agile and lean consultant, there’s sometimes a lot of discussion about “processes”. People I work with use different definitions of processes. Agile teams sometimes resist to processes, when they refer to the agile manifesto that …

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Agile CMMI: Combining Strengths

5 October 2012 Outsourcing

  Some years ago the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) published the technical report CMMI or Agile: Why Not Embrace Both, to describe that CMMI and agile can co-exist. I was surprised that such a report was needed. All the projects that …

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Agile Improvement Projects

20 June 2012 Agile outsourcing

Business needs for improvement projects are changing. Organizations expect faster results from their investments; they want their improvement projects to adapt to and follow changing business needs and be more engrained with the organizational way of working. The agile way …

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