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		<title>SoCraTes Crete, Chania, Greece, October 22-25 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The SoCraTes Crete conference is an event focused on Agile software development and software craftsmanship that takes place on the island of Crete in Greece. It is the successor of the Agile Crete conference. The aim of this conference is to be a playground where Agile coaches and software development team members could gather to discuss and share ideas about all things Agile and Scrum. The SoCraTes Crete event follows the open space format for conferences. Open space is a simple methodology for self-organizing conference tracks. It relies on participation by people who have a passion for the topics to be discussed. There is no preplanned list of topics, only time slots and a space in the main meeting room where interested participants propose topics and pick time slots. Website for the SoCraTes Crete conference: https://socrates-crete.org/]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Agile Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 21 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Agile Slovenia is a conference focused on Agile and Scrum topics that take place in Ljubljana. Agile Slovenia is an event where you can turn theory in action, attend to workshops, meet agile people, listen to agile pioneers, expand your knowledge. It features both local and international Agile experts. In the agenda of Agile Slovenia you can find topics like &#8220;Agile is flawed &#8211; because it works too well&#8221;, &#8220;Building an MVP sounds simple, so why do so many organizations struggle and what are the common factors of excellent MVP design?&#8221;, &#8220;Lessons and Experiences from 15 years of Agile Coaching&#8221;, &#8220;Do we need Scrum Rituals?&#8221;, &#8220;Shifting from manufacturing product to creating a service&#8221;, &#8220;Complex Projects aren’t planable but controllable&#8221;, &#8220;There’s no such thing as an agile contract&#8221;, &#8220;How Agile Coaches help us win &#8211; the Agile Coach role at Spotify&#8221;, &#8220;Agile HR and Agile leadership in a nutshell&#8221; Website of the Agile Slovenia conference: https://www.agileslovenia.com/]]></description>
		
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		<title>Refactoring Legacy Applications the Right Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you have worked in a legacy codebase or &#8216;big ball of mud&#8217;, you know that it can make development unnecessarily slow, frustrating and costly. The solution, many developers would say, is to just rewrite the whole thing. But good luck getting every stakeholder to agree to such a costly and risky refactoring process. This presentation takes a look at the different ways you can clean up your codebase, while minimizing risk and costs. It discusses some of the different legacy codebase refactoring strategies like the &#8216;Strangler Fig Pattern&#8217; and the presenter gives you a few tips and best-practices on how you can avoid the same mistakes in the future. Video producer: https://oredev.org/]]></description>
		
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		<title>Test Management Tools Plugins for Jira</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A test management plugin for Jira will add to Jira the testing capabilities that project management tool does not provide natively. The core features of the test management Jira plugins should be to create test plans and test cases, organize them into test cycles, execute them, maintain traceability with Jira issues and provide test execution reports. Jira alone has no software testing features. It does not provide test case entity, no execution history, and no coverage reporting. The test management plugins add these features, providing a ready-to-use test management structure and reducing manual work. They help Agile teams avoid creating confusion in Jira with custom issue types or maintaining external synchronization with software tests plans and execution results. The most important features that you should look for in Jira Test Management plugins are: • Centralized test case repository: a dedicated place to create, organize, and maintain test cases instead of forcing them into Jira issue types. • Tracking test execution: the ability to run tests, record pass/fail results, and maintain execution history across cycles or releases. • Traceability to Jira issues: you should be able to link test cases and executions to user stories, epics, and defects for end‑to‑end coverage. • Organizing test cycles and test plans: group tests into cycles for sprints, releases, or regression suites. • Test reporting &#038; dashboards: coverage reports, execution summaries, traceability matrices, and release readiness indicators. • Native Jira experience: tests should appear inside Jira UI and workflows, minimizing context switching for teams already <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/test-management-tools-plugins-for-jira/" title="Test Management Tools Plugins for Jira">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tips on How to Find a Good Agile Coach</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The notion of coaching is specific to Agile approaches in the software development world. There has always been consultants, but they were seen as a different role. Here are some resources about Agile coaching, starting with some quotes from the Agile Coaching book written by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley. &#8220;Agile is all about teams working together to produce great software. As an Agile coach, you can help your team go from first steps to running with Agile to unleashing their full Agile potential.&#8221; &#8220;The art of Agile coaching is understanding the situation, the values underlying Agile software development, and how the two can combine. As an Agile coach, you don’t need to have all the answers; it takes time and a few experiments to hit on the right approach. We’ve worked with teams who’ve come up with great solutions, and we learn from every team we work with.&#8221; &#8220;Don’t expect to get recognition for your work as an Agile coach. It’s a supporting role rather than one that delivers direct benefits. A good coach gives credit to the team. When you work on an idea with Frank, it’s Frank’s idea if it succeeds, and if it doesn’t, then commiserate together.&#8221; Source: “Agile Coaching”, Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley, Pragmatic Bookshelf, 250 pages Some good points to keep in mind the next time you will be looking for some coaching help to transition to Agile. Resources about Agile Coaching Agile Coaching Tips When you are engaged as an agile coach, <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/tips-on-how-to-find-a-good-agile-coach/" title="Tips on How to Find a Good Agile Coach">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Prioritize What Truly Matters in Backlog to Focus on Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This presentation explains how an organization moved from 17 component backlogs to one shared, results-focused product backlog—and what that changed for delivery speed and alignment. The presenters explain how “autonomous” component teams optimized for local work, not customer value, creating high WIP, heavy dependencies, and long lead times. By restructuring into cross-functional feature teams, running one shared cadence, and prioritizing work for the whole product, they dramatically improved flow. The talk also covers their next step: shifting from output (features) to outcomes (user behavior change) using continuous discovery. The key outcomes from the changes in product backlog prioritization approach were: Time-to-market reduced from ~7 months to ~40 days Up to 80% shorter delivery time (≈5× faster) Same people—better structure, clearer priorities Video producer: https://less.works/]]></description>
		
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		<title>Commercial Scrum Online Retrospectives Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many Scrum teams are based on a distributed organization where members are in different locations, countries or time zones. How could these Agile teams perform their retrospectives? Some companies have developed online tools that can be used to facilitate retrospectives for distributed Scrum teams that work remotely. This article presents only online commercial tools that can be used to facilitate Agile retrospectives, as we have already produced a list of free retrospective tools for distributed Scrum teams. We mention only tools that have features specifically dedicated to Scrum retrospectives. If you want to add a tool that fits these requirements to this article, just let us now using the contact form. Updates June 15 2026 : added Echometer, Neatro, Teaminal; removed: goReflect, RetroCadence (not available anymore) April 24 2023: added: EasyRetro, RetroCadence, RetroTeam, RetroTool; removed: inRetro, Retrospectus September 9 2019: added: Parabol, Sprint Board, Retro Rabbit, RetroTime, TeleRetro, Trune; RealtimeBoard renamed as Miro EasyRetro EasyRetro is an intuitive and easy-to-use tool for agile teams to do online sprint retrospectives. EasyRetro focuses on being extremely easy to use and requiring in most cases no onboarding in order for people to get up to speed with it. EasyRetro is focused on being anonymous and providing a safe psychological environment for people to be able to open themselves and share their feedback. The tool is very simple but at the same time very powerful and customizable. You can enable multiple features like gifs, the ability to upload images, surveys, and Facebook-like reactions. You <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/commercial-scrum-retrospectives-tools/" title="Commercial Scrum Online Retrospectives Tools">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>AgileByExample, Warsaw, Poland, October 12-14 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AgileByExample is a Lean, Agile and Scrum conference taking place in Warsaw, Poland that helps you learn Agile on live examples. The first day is dedicated to a Lean Agile Dojo with workshops. Keynotes, talks and discussions are all in English. In the agenda of the AgileByExample conference you can find topics like &#8220;From Agile teams to the Agile Organization &#8211; Agility beyond software development&#8221;, &#8220;Swarming in Scrum (and a bit about remote teams)&#8221;, &#8220;Making decisions when there are not bosses&#8221;, &#8220;10 Years of Examples Using Large-Scale Scrum&#8221;, &#8220;Using Systems Thinking in Designing Organisation&#8221;, &#8220;Six Questions to Change Your Life: The Power of Personal Agility&#8221;, &#8220;The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master&#8221;, &#8220;Creating rapport with Empathic Listening&#8221;, &#8220;User Stories considered harmful: why Product Owners and developers failed at gathering requirements and communication &#8211; the lost art of analysis and testing scenarios&#8221;, &#8220;5 Whys Root Cause Analysis&#8221;, &#8220;Taking Back Agile: Returning to our Core Values and Practices&#8221;, &#8220;No time for Planning Poker? Try Silent Sort Estimating Instead&#8221;, &#8220;eXPert Leadership&#8221;, &#8220;Time to Clean up the Product!&#8221;, &#8220;Pair Programming Demystified&#8221;, &#8220;The Evolution of a Super Agile Software Development Capability&#8221;, &#8220;Scaling agile at LEGO&#8221;, &#8220;Choosing Change: How to Enable a Shift to Agile&#8221;. Web site for the AgileByExample conference: https://agilebyexample.com/]]></description>
		
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		<title>Agile Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, September 30 &#8211; October 1 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Agile Cambridge is a conference that is focused on Agile software development and Scrum project management. Since 2010, this conference mixes workshops, experience reports and case studies about Agile and Scrum. In the agenda of the Agile Cambridge conference you can find topics like &#8220;Agile architecture and innovation&#8221;, &#8220;Agility for the masses&#8221;, &#8220;Team toxins &#8211; the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse&#8221;, &#8220;Product management isn’t just about product anymore!&#8221;, &#8220;Baking Security into Agile – An Impossible Task?&#8221;, &#8220;Why exploratory testing is tightly coupled with agile&#8221;, &#8220;Scaling agile development at the Government Digital Service&#8221;, &#8220;Agile at scale &#8211; doing it right&#8221;, &#8220;Old dog, new tricks &#8211; or how I learned to be better&#8221;, &#8220;How to overcome communication challenges in a team&#8221;, &#8220;End-to-end testing considered harmful&#8221;, &#8220;Waltzing with branches&#8221;, &#8220;Modern agile project toolbox&#8221;, &#8220;Agile silicon engineering&#8221;, &#8220;Becoming an agile leader, regardless of your role&#8221;, &#8220;Scaled portfolio experience report&#8221;, &#8220;Intro to Lean UX&#8221;, &#8220;The ABCD of database development: always be continuously delivering&#8221;, &#8220;Test-driving the Internet of Things&#8221;, &#8220;What does it take to become a great product manager?&#8221;, &#8220;Radiating information &#8211; we need better agile boards!&#8221;, &#8220;Are Retrospectives Dead?&#8221;. Website the Agile Cambridge conference: https://agilecambridge.net/]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lean Agile Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, October 29-30 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lean Agile Scotland is a conference taking place in Edinburgh and focused on the Lean and Agile approaches to software development and project management like Scrum or Kanban. In the agenda of the Lean Agile Scotland conference you can find topics like &#8220;Navigate in shallow waters: a business agility story in corporate banking&#8221;, &#8220;Creating the first internal Agile coaching service in Government&#8221;, &#8220;Psychological safety starts with you&#8221;, &#8220;Visual facilitation &#8211; basic toolkit&#8221;, &#8220;Embracing collaborative chaos &#8211; running chaos days on large platforms&#8221;, &#8220;Icebox zero: agile UX and the lean backlog&#8221;, &#8220;Editing Service Design&#8221;, &#8220;Seven Secrets of Scaling&#8221;, &#8220;The Eupsychian Manager&#8221;, &#8220;Dispositioning Advantage: A Pervert&#8217;s Guide to Strategy Design&#8221;, &#8220;A Practical Guide to Cynefin&#8221;, &#8220;Mapping the Risk in Your Value Stream&#8221;, &#8220;All Of This Has Happened Before &#8211; An Agile History&#8221;, &#8220;Data-driven decision-making through Lean Analytics&#8221;, &#8220;Kanban Essentials&#8221;, &#8220;Evolution of Tribes at Spotify &#8211; Complexity in Practice&#8221;, &#8220;Beyond BDD&#8221;. Website for the Lean Agile Scotland conference: https://leanagile.scot/]]></description>
		
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