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Ben Kopel

Ben Kopel
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Ben is the Director of Agile Coaching with Project Brilliant, where he focuses on enterprise coaching, as well as training. He helps build high performing teams and enables organizational growth.

Company
Project Brilliant
Job Function
Enterprise Agile Coach and Trainer
Job Title
Enterprise Agile Coach and Trainer
Industry
Business Services - Consulting - Non-profit
Interests
Agile
Leadership
Lean
Country
United States
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Ben Kopel

Ben is the Senior Manager of Agile Practices at Uptake. He helps build high performing teams and enables organizational growth.

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Felt letters of the alphabet The Agile Alphabet, Part 2

The world of agile has many terms for concepts, principles, and practices common in the community. Ben Kopel came up with a list of some of the most important words used when practicing agile and organized them into a glossary with one term for every letter of the alphabet. Here's the second half, with N through Z.
Felt letters of the alphabet, photo by Magda Ehlers The Agile Alphabet, Part 1The world of agile has many terms for concepts, principles, and practices common in the community. Ben Kopel came up with a list of some of the most important words used when practicing agile and organized them into a glossary with one term for every letter of the alphabet. Here's the first half, with A through M.
Sticky notes on cabinet doors Applying Agile to Life: Taking Retrospectives outside the WorkplaceA lot of what agile teams do can be used effectively outside software development teams, and even outside the typical business organization. For instance, retrospectives and the practice of talking about what went well, what you should keep doing, and what can be improved can be applied anywhere—even to families. Read on to learn how to bring continuous improvement into your daily life.
Whiteboard with sticky notes for each day's retrospective comments Experimenting with Daily RetrospectivesExperimentation is a great way to unleash creativity, continuously improve, and see what works and what doesn't. When a team was tossing around the idea of doing daily retrospectives, agile coach Ben Kopel decided to guide them through some iterations on the process. Here, he talks about what the team did and what they gained from both the retrospectives and the quick feedback from experimenting.
Icon of agile process Using Sprints for Agile CoachingDiscussing the work to be done as a group, building in short iterations, getting feedback, and looking for ways to improve are not just practices for development teams—it is an effective way to achieve any goal. Here, Ben Kopel details his experience of working with other agile coaches in a sprint to hire a new ScrumMaster.
Code on a computer screen Code Health Kaizen: Self-Organizing for Agile ImprovementPeople at Ben Kopel's organization were interested in improving their code health. It was something the engineers had control over and leadership didn't need to be involved, so code health was a great candidate for a self-organized initiative. Ben details the meeting they held, their discussions and plans, and how an agile team empowered themselves to improve.