Ben Linders

About

I deliver agile training and workshops, provide advice, play games and exercises, and do professional coaching and mentoring for Tech Startups, IT Companies, Software Development Professionals, and Agile Teams all around the world. As a one-person company, my aim is to help you become more effective and efficient and increase the value that you deliver in your organization and the business value delivered to your customers and stakeholders. My strength is sustainable improvement and agility: Helping people, teams, and tech organizations to get better at what they are doing and making changes stick so that they get lasting value from it. You get Free Lifetime Support on everything that I do to help you using what I deliver in your specific situation. I want you to be successful! I created the Agile Self-assessment Game. I'm the author of the books Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, What Drives Quality, The Agile Self-assessment Game, Problem? What Problem?, and Continuous Improvement. Assignments done: * Training with exercises to enhance Product ownership from strategic to operational roles * Workshops on applying practices from Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, etc. * Games and gamification for psychological safety and culture change * Training & coaching to integrate agile teams with the business and other stakeholders * Workshops for agile teams to apply Scum, Kanban, and Lean * Improve collaboration between Product Owners and remote development teams * Coach teams to improve Product Review meetings and Agile Retrospectives * Individual (remote) coaching of Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Owners, CxOs * Implement Agile with multiple Business and Development teams * People CMM Workshops and HRM / Management assessment * Coaching in Scrum, self-organizing, agile retrospectives * Presentations & workshops in change management, Continuous Improvement, Agile/Scrum Awareness, Lean SW Development, Agile beyond SW Development * Advice wrt Agile & CMMI, SWEBOK, Agile Retrospectives * Implementation of Root Cause Analyses and quality metrics for Quality Improvement Specialties: * Applying Agile, Lean, CMMI, Quality, People-CMM, ISO 9001, Causal Analysis, Scrum, Kanban, Open Space, Lean Startup, Retrospectives, Six Sigma, Governance, Real QA for continuous improvement * Psychological Safety, Positive Psychology approaches for continuous improvement: Solution Focused, Appreciative Inquiry, Positive Deviance, Happiness Index, Fun at Work, Definition of Fun, Celebrating, and other Motivational ways of working