The document describes an Agile self-assessment game created by Ben Linders Consulting to help teams and organizations evaluate their agility. The game uses cards with Agile principles and practices. It provides suggestions for playing and instructions. The purpose is to help groups assess their agility and progress on their Agile journey through an interactive game. Services are also offered to facilitate using the game.

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Playing the
Agile Self-assessment Game
Agile Showcase Amsterdam
January 25, 2018
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How Agile are you?

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Self-assessments
• Becoming Agile is a Journey
• Good practices – in context
– Experiment
– Learn & adapt
• Self-organization
– Self-assess your agility
– Travel your agile journey
Assessing your Agility

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

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Playing the Game
Playing suggestions:
• First things First
• Invest in Agile
• Deep Thought
Read instructions
Play games in teams
Share experiences
Please don’t write on the cards!!!
Scrum
DevOps
Kanban
Business
Agile

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Share your Experiences
• How did the game go?
• What did you learn?
Questions?
Download cards at benlinders.com/downloads

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Assessing your Agility
Over 70 tools:
• Self-Assessment checklists
• Readyness checks
• Maturity assessments
• Agile health checks
• Measurements
• 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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Books: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
What Drives Quality Continuous Improvement
Games: Agile Self-assessment Game