The game consists of a deck of impediment cards, a list of agile and lean good practices, and an impediment board. This game has Lean/Kanban cards and supports Lean/Kanban thinking to solve problems.

1. Ben Linders Consulting

2. Trainer / Coach / Adviser / Author / Speaker
Agile, Lean, Quality & Continuous improvement
Freelance Editor for InfoQ.com
Ben Linders
Books: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives – FR edition!!!
What Drives Quality Continuous Improvement
Games: Agile Self-assessment Game – FR edition!!!

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Impediment

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Handling Impediments
Recognize
Understand
Find effective solutions
Decide what to do and do it

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Dealing with Blockers & Impediments
Make it visible
Raise issues early
Build shared understanding
Feelings matter
Know the root causes
Safe-to-fail experiments

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Playing the Game
• 5 min: read guidelines
• 45 min: play the game
• 10 min: evaluate

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Handling Impediments
• Recognize
• Understand
• Solution
• Decide who takes action
Agile Skills and Practices

8. Retrospective
Reflect on playing the game – four key questions
Do Well? Learn?
Do
Different?
Puzzles
you?

9. Questions?Questions?
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Independent Consultant Agile, Lean,
Quality & Continuous Improvement
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10. Background Information

11. Jeux et livres de Ben Linders en français
Jeu d’auto-évaluation Agile
French edition of Agile Self-Assessment Game
Tires Profit des Rétrospectives Agiles
Avec une large panoplie d’activités, Tirer profit des
rétrospectives agiles vous aidera à devenir plus
efficace dans l’animation de rétrospectives et d’en
retirer davantage
Avant-propos d’Esther Derby et Alexandre Boutin.

12. Agile Self-assessment Game
Teams/organizations to self-assess their agility
• Cards with agile principles & practices
• Playing suggestions
• Expansion packs
French Edition by Fabrice Aimetti
BenLinders.com/game PDF download
increase agility, deliver more value to customers/stakeholders

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What Drives Quality
Deep Dive into Software Quality with Practical
Solutions for Delivering High Quality Products
for software developers and testers, architects,
Product Owners, agile coaches, Scrum masters,
project managers, and operational and senior
managers who consider quality to be important
Released: September 30, 2017
Available on Amazon, leanpub, BenLinders

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Continuous Improvement
Become aware of importance of
continuous improvement,
Explore how it’s engrained in agile
software development
Suggestions that you can use in your
daily work to improve continuously
Increase your organization's agility!
Leanpub.com/continuousimprovement
“Continuous Improvement is the act of continuously doing whatever helps to
become better and thus more valuable”

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Getting More out of Agile & Lean
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
Improve Collaboration
Tips & Trick for Agile & Lean
Improve Continuously
Increase your organization's agility!
BenLinders.com/agilelean