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I’m giving the workshop Fostering a Sustainable Collaborative Culture with Psychological Safety at DevOpsCon Munich Transformation Day, December 1. Book your seat.

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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.
www.benlinders.com
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...
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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October 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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...
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.
www.benlinders.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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🙏 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
September 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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...
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.
www.benlinders.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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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
July 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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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.
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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June 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
My Thursday @infoq.com news from @qconferences.com London about How to Develop Your Skills to Become a Principal Engineer

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June 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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.
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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May 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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
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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May 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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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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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May 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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
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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May 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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
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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May 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
If you bought my book The Agile Self-assessment Game on Amazon then buy the cards to play the games in my webshop.

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Cards on #agile #Scrum #Kanban #DevOps #agility #Testing #psychologicalsafety #culture & more

#gamification #facilitation
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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May 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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👏 Kudos to our brilliant contributors:

Shane Hastie
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Ben Linders - @benlinders.bsky.social
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May 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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
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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May 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Serious games, tools, and coaching cards, get them directly from my webshop!

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Agile Self-Assessment Game, Psychological Safety Cards, Culture Cards, Impediments Games and Cards, Books, and more.
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.
www.benlinders.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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

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#agile #Self-assessment #game #quote
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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May 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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
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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May 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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
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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May 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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
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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May 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Visualize, discuss, self-asses, and improve Psychological Safety

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Play with the cards to facilitate discussions about the values, behavior, opinions, and beliefs that underlie psychological safety

#agile #coaching #tool #psychologicalsafety #download
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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May 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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#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
April 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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#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 😊🙏
infoq.com InfoQ @infoq.com · Apr 15
Is your #SoftwareArchitecture keeping pace with its evolution? Ignoring this can lead to major roadblocks in operations and development.

Enter #FitnessFunctions: the guardrails for continuous, desired architectural evolution.

Learn more: bit.ly/3E9BCt5

#InfoQ
April 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Nice to see the Agile Retrospectives Wiki gets a shout out on the Gov.UK Govt Service Design Manual https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/agile/running-retrospectives.html
November 15, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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Getting Value out of #Agile #Retrospectives by @lgoncalves1979 and @BenLinders
Get your yourself a copy! #RetroValue

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November 26, 2024 at 3:28 PM