Ben Linders

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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Let’s make teams better at fixing what’s really broken—fast and together.

Collaborative Problem-solving – Establishing a Culture With Working Practices to Deal Effectively With Impediments Masterclass with Ben Linders at GOTO Copenhagen 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
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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.

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.

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…

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...

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.

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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🙏 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

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.

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.

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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

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...

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.

My Thursday @infoq.com news from @qconferences.com London about How to Develop Your Skills to Become a Principal Engineer

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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…

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.

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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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

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.

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

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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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

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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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

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.

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

👏 Kudos to our brilliant contributors:

Shane Hastie
Charity Majors - @charity.wtf
Ben Linders - @benlinders.bsky.social
Rafiq Gemmail
Craig Smith

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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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

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.

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.

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.

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

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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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

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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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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Cards packages for #agile #Scrum #Kanban #DevOps #BusinessAgility #Quality #Testing #PsychologicalSafety #Culture #book #gamification

Psychological Safety Cards - Ben Linders Over 60 Psychological Safety Cards; profound set of cards covering psychological safety from individual, team, and organizational perspective

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

#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

Happy to have been of help, appreciated how we collaborated on this.

#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 😊🙏

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

Getting Value out of #Agile #Retrospectives by @lgoncalves1979 and @BenLinders
Get your yourself a copy! #RetroValue

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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...

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:

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