Growing agile teams to deliver value and learn fast

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My mission is to help product delivery teams be more effective at delivering value to customers.

I am an Agile leader, coach, Professional Scrum Trainer and a massive advocate of more diversity in the technology community.

As a Professional Scrum Trainer, I offer the Professional Scrum Master Training to provide people a solid foundation in product delivery using Scrum. In my training, I share my experiences as a Scrum Master of distributed and co-located product delivery teams across different industries in The Netherlands and Australia. 

I lead and grow product delivery teams by creating environments where teams have clear purpose, understand context, deliver and feel safe to continuously reflect and adapt. I only succeed when our team effectively solves problems for our customers.

I regularly participate in meet-ups that support females in technology and volunteer in events whenever I can. 

Professional Scrum Master training (PSM)

The PSM course is the cutting-edge course for effective Scrum Masters and for anyone coaching a team toward increased efficiency and effectiveness. The course includes advanced thinking for servant-leadership and behavioural shifts.

Throughout the course, students are challenged to think in terms of the Scrum principles to better understand what to do when returning to the workplace. The PSM course is much more than just a set of slides and an instructor. In this course, students work on real-life cases with other classmates together as a team. This course is made up of discussions and hands-on exercises based upon real-life cases

The course provides cutting-edge instruction for aspiring Scrum Masters and for anyone coaching a development team toward increased efficiency and effectiveness.

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Professional Scrum Master I Certification

All participants completing the Professional Scrum Master course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) assessment. PSM class participants who attempt the PSM I assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.

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Icebreakers: Absolute waste of time or do they add value?

Icebreakers: are they a complete waste of time or do they add value? Some people absolutely love them, other absolute dislike them because they didn’t add any value. I believe a well-designed icebreaker can kickstart your session, can be fun and get people warmed-up for the rest of the session. Learn about how you can design icebreakers that add value and that grow connection between the participants and the purpose of the session.

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Moving Motivators: what really motivates you?

Have you ever been curious about what really motivates the people you work with? What are they looking for in their role and in their work? If you can find an hour with your team, I recommend you to try the Moving Motivators practice (Management 3.0). Let's unpack how to prepare and run the exercise and end with some learnings.

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To Mob or not to Mob: How we got started with (and sold) Mob Programming

Mob Programming is one of the latest practices to come out of Agile Software Development. It takes Pair Programming (2 development team members working together on one machine) and turns the dial all the way up to 11. The entire team working together on one machine. This sounds like a recipe for a handful of disasters, but paradoxically it worked amazingly for one of the teams I was working with.

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Technical Debt Pattern: Custom Off-The-Shelf

Technical debt inhibits our ability to be transparent. How bad can it get really? What happens if we do not repay our technical debt? Read about an experience report on the price of not repaying technical debt.

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