Dealing effectively with impediments - Agile Management Congress 2019 - Ben Linders

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If your organization wants to become agile and lean, teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. Playing the Impediment Board Game, you will practice how to recognize and analyze impediments, understand how they hinder teams, and decide what to do by deploying agile and lean principles and good practices. You’ll learn to become more effective by recognizing impediments early and get rid of them before they become a major issue. The impediment game teaches you the five steps for handling impediments effectively: – recognize and analyze impediments – find out how they hinder the team – find effective solutions to deal with them – decide what to do and who can do it – learn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments Agile coaches use the Impediment Board Game in agile transformations to coach teams and help them to become self-organized and empowered to solve any impediments that they might face on their agile journey. Come play the impediment board game!

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Problem? What Problem?
Learn how to deal effectively with impediments
Agile Management Congress Prague
November 25 2019
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Books: Valuable Agile Retrospectives Problem? What Problem?
What Drives Quality Self-assessments Continuous Improvement
Games: Agile Self-assessment Game Retrospectives Bingo Impediments
Quality Coaching Cards Agile Testing Cards

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Impediments
anything that
slows people
down and
needs to be
dealt with

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Handling Impediments
 Recognize impediments
 Understand how they hinder the team
 Explore effective solutions
 Decide how to solve and who takes action

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Recognize: Catch Signals
 Something somebody said
 Behavior, what’s being done
 What people are not doing/skipping
 Anomaly in data or measurement
You can observe a lot by just watching –Yogi Berra

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Examples of Signals
“My work is done, I’m waiting for other people”
There’s no stand-up meeting when the Scrum
master isn’t there that day
“We can only deliver on time by skipping the
retrospective”
The R&D manager just dropped in and told team
members they need to do some other work

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Recognizing Impediments
 Signals, not problem
 Stop and reflect
 Probe & Sense (Cynefin)
 Analyze to understand
 Don’t shoot messenger
 Ignoring doesn’t make the
impediment go away

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Share what you learned
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Questions?Questions?
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Quality & Continuous Improvement
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Impediment Training & Coaching
Download Coaching Cards Board Game
Improve impediment skills
For agile teams, Tech leads,
Scrum masters, Agile
coaches, project or line
managers, consultants,
anyone involved in or
working with agile teams.

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Assessing your Agility
Over 80 tools:
• Self-Assessment checklists
• Readyness checks
• Maturity assessments
• Agile health checks
• Measurements
• Books
• And much more! Agile Self-Assessments

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Services for Agile Self-assessments
Becoming agile is a journey, which can be difficult to travel. The Agile
Self-Assessment game is there for you to self assess how agile you
are and smoothly and successfully travel your agile journey.
Services for assessing your agility and increase delivered value:
• In-house workshop for playing the Agile Self-assessment Game
• Public workshops to experience the Agile Self-assessment Game
• Agile assessment for your team, department, or organization
• Facilitation for playing the game at your event (conference, meetup,
hackathon, game lab, etc)
• Tailoring the Agile Self-assessment Game to your specific needs
• Licenses for playing the game
Contact: benlinders@gmail.com +31 6 2901 3863

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Making Agile Work for You
Practices for teams and stakeholders to develop the right
products, deliver faster, increase quality, and create
happy high performing teams.
Full Day Workshop:
Deploying practices effectively
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Increase your organization's agility!
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