Let’s Play a Game to Self-assess Your Agility Every team, every organization is less or more agile. But how agile are you, and how can you increase your agility? Methods or frameworks don’t tell you how to become agile or increase your agility. The Agile Self-Assessment Game is an “agile map” with coaching cards for Scrum, DevOps, Kanban, and Business Agility. Playing the game inspires you with ideas and suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. Join this session to experience different playing formats in teams, learn how you can discover how agile you are, and get fresh ideas to increase your agility.

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How Agile are You?
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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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How Agile are You?
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Imposing doesn’t work

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Gamification
Applying principles and practices from
gaming in a non-gaming context
 Points, badges, and leaderboards
 Stories, challenges, journeys
 Progression or emerge structure
Enabling Improvement

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What can gamification bring?
 People like to play games
 Encourage and involve people
 Provide different perspectives
 Stimulate collaboration
 Build relationships
 Visualize what’s happening
 Establish safety to fail and learn

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Agile Self-assessments
Self-assess to improve
 Discuss & Learn
 Engage & Involve
 Experiment
 Take action
Agile journey
Checklists Game

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Playing the Agile Self-assessment Game

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Playing in distributed teams

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Playing Suggestions
Playing suggestions:
• Basic Game
• Variants on the Game
• Invest in Agile
• Sailboat Retrospective
• First things First
• Deep Thought
• Best Agile Practice
• Sketching Agile Journey
• Health Check
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Scrum
DevOps
Kanban
Business
Agile

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Key Takeaways
 Don't impose change on people, it doesn’t work
 Self-organization implies that teams should take
responsibility for improving themselves
 Gamification provides a safe-to-fail environment where
people can explore, experiment, and learn
 You can engage and empower people by supporting
them with self-assessments

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Links
Agile Self-assessments benlinders.com/tools/agile-self-assessments/
Self-assessment Game benlinders.com/game/
Book & cards package benlinders.com/shop/the-agile-self-assessment-game/
Agile Coaching Tools benlinders.com/downloads/

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Improving Agility with Gamification
 Establish a culture of learning
 Drive out fear and blaming
 Do improvements at all levels

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Online health self-assessment

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Sharing Challenges