If you want to become agile and lean, teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. This game teaches you to recognize and analyze impediment and to take appropriate action by deploying agile and lean good practices. In this game, you will become a team which has been working together for a couple of iterations. The game can be played by 1-4 teams simultaneously. Each team will have Scrum master and a Product Owner. The game consists of a deck of impediment cards, a list of agile and lean good practices, and an impediment board. During the game, the teams will be coached in understanding impediments and selecting and deploying good practices to take action. Benefits for attendees : recognize impediments and understand how they can hinder the team deploy agile and lean practices to deal with them learn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments

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Dealing Effectively with Impediments
Bosnia Agile Day 2017
Sarajevo, October 21, 2016
Ben Linders
HOTEL EUROPE, October 21st

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

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Impediment

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Handling Impediments
recognize
understand how they hinder team
find effective solutions
decide what to do and do it

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Playing the Game
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5 min: read guidelines
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45 min: play the game
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10 min: evaluate
Evaluate
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How did it go?
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What did you learn?

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Handling Impediments
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Recognize
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Understand
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Deploy Agile/Lean Practices
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Decide who takes action
Agile & Lean Good Practices
Customer & Requirements
Technical Practices
Team Working & Efficiency
Organizational Change

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

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THANK YOU!

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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
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Become aware of importance of continuous
improvement,
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Explore how it’s engrained in agile software
development
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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:
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Deploying practices effectively
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Improve Collaboration
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Tips & Trick for Agile & Lean
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Improve Continuously
Increase your organization's agility!
BenLinders.com/agilelean