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...

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...

🙏 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

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...

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

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 www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

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 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

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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

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

If you bought my book The Agile Self-assessment Game on Amazon then buy the cards to play the games in my webshop. buff.ly/4bgYjpH 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 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

Serious games, tools, and coaching cards, get them directly from my webshop! buff.ly/40o3Xnt Agile Self-Assessment Game, Psychological Safety Cards, Culture Cards, Impediments Games and Cards, Books, and more.

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 buff.ly/3Y3MDna #agile #Self-assessment #game #quote

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

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

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

Visualize, discuss, self-asses, and improve Psychological Safety buff.ly/4gYzR0j 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

#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 leanpub.com/gettingvalueou…

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: www.infoq.com/news/2025/02...

In this #InfoQ panel discussion, industry experts explore how #GenerativeAI is: ✅ Boosting productivity ✅ Redefining the developer experience ✅ Shaping the future of software development Watch the full video now and gain valuable insights: bit.ly/4hEyGTx #transcript included

I'm giving both public and in-company workshops on Valuable Agile Retrospectives buff.ly/3LpqmZt Learn new exercises for your agile retrospectives, find out how to create a safe environment, and improve your facilitation skills #agile #retrospectives #workshop

Need some help playing the Agile Self-assessment? A Kick-off Training given live by me personally to get you started with lots of facilitation tips and playing suggestions buff.ly/4h5wB2g #agile #game #coaching #training #Scrum #Kanban #lean

Visualize, discuss, self-asses, and improve Psychological Safety buff.ly/404pZui Play with the cards to facilitate discussions about the values, behavior, opinions, and beliefs that underlie psychological safety #agile #coaching #tool #psychologicalsafety #download

Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives (Paperback) buff.ly/45IiNqf Het boek voor faciliteren van retrospectives: Oefeningen, “wat” en “waarom” van retrospectives, business value en voordelen die retrospectives brengen, en tips voor introduceren en verbeteren van retrospectives.

Looking for a way to reflect, learn, and improve? Download agile games, tools, and coaching cards. For teams, Scrum Masters, Coaches, and Facilitators. buff.ly/4gIX5H2 #agile #Scrum #Kanban #DevOps #BusinessAgility #Quality #Testing #Gamification #Teams

I will return to OOP conference in Feb 2025 to give a tutorial on collaborative problem-solving. Book your ticket to OOP conference with a 15% discount with the voucher “OOP25_Linders” at buff.ly/49ga7Jl

QA professionals are increasingly turning to #AI to address the growing complexities of #SoftwareTesting. The result? ✅ Improved test coverage ⏱️ Shorter test cycles 🎯 More accurate results 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/49D4LrC #InfoQ @benlinders.bsky.social

What Developers Can Do to Continue to Program as They Age www.infoq.com/news/2024/11... Trouble seeing, pain, and stiffness are some of the things that can make it harder to program as you age, as @gregcons.bsky.social discovered. But they aren’t inevitable, and there are solutions...

I published the slides from my DevOpsCon Munich talk: Gamify it until you make it - Improving Agile Development and Operations with Gamification www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ga...

Checking in at DevOpsCon Munich, doing a talk on Gamification and joining the Lean Coffee

The slides of my DevOpsCon Singapore keynote "Gamify it until you make it: Improving Agile Development and Operations with Gamification" are now available: www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ga...

Checking in for the 2nd day of DevOpsCon Singapore. We'll open with a panel on the future of AI in software development. I will also give the closing keynote on Gamification.

This week I'm in Singapore for DevOpsCon: Panel about the future of Javascript and DevOps, keynote about gamification for adopting software development and management practices, and full-day workshop Fostering an Agile Culture for Effective Problem Solving. www.benlinders.com/event/worksh...

My Thursday @infoq.bsky.social news about How to Delight Your Developers with User-Centric Platforms and Practices www.infoq.com/news/2024/11...

Great to hear from @danielbryantuk.bsky.social at #QConSF! Did you know that all @infoq.bsky.social content is crafted by software practitioners, not journalists? If you're passionate about software development, join our editorial community. Learn more: www.infoq.com/write-for-in...

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🎶 It’s time to play the music. It’s time to light the lights. 🎶 #QConSF is back! It’s gonna be a great week of software experts sharing their stories and knowledge. @qconferences.bsky.social