Becoming agile is a journey, which can be difficult to travel. Assuming that you know why you want to become agile (a first but crucial step) you start looking for ways how to get there. Questions like "what do you want to keep from your current way of working" and "what would you like to change" will come up. Then the next question is "what are ways to do this". There isn't a silver bullet or standard route to become agile, you have to find your own way. A fixed route description won't help you. You need an "agile map" that inspires you with ideas and suggestions on where to go on your journey. The Agile Self-Assessment game is here for you to travel your agile journey. Come play the Agile Self-Assessment game in teams to discover how agile you are and what you can do to increase your agility. Players will receive a link to download the card game so that they can play it in their own organization (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 License).

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Agile Self-Assessment Game
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The Game
The Agile Self-Assessment Card Game can be used by teams
and organizations to self assess their agility.
It consists of 52 cards with statements on applying agile
practices.
Playing the game enables teams to reflect on their own team
interworking and agree upon the next steps for their agile
journey.
With this game they can discover how agile they are and what
they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to
their customers and stakeholders.

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Playing it
• Team member picks a card and reads it out loud
• Team discusses to assess how well it's done (Play your
role based on the exercise chosen!):
1. Not or inconsistently done
2. Consistently done, but value can be increased
3. Consistently done, valuable practice for the team
• Put the card on stack 1, 2, or 3 and next team member
picks a card
• After playing some cards, consider cards in 1&2 for
improvement and decide what to do

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Assessment for new team
Do Later
Do Now Do Never

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Assessment for existing team
2: consistently
done, value can
be increased1: Not or
inconsistently
done
3: consistently
done, valuable

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Assessing your Agility
Over 40 tools:
• Self-Assessment checklists
• Readyness checks
• Maturity assessments
• Agile health checks
• Measurements
• And much more!
Agile Self-Assessments

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Background Information

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Retrospectives Book
Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
By Luis Gonçalves & Ben Linders
Download from InfoQ or Leanpub
Buy on Amazon or Lulu
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Retrospectives Book Bundle
Six successful retrospectives books
• Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
• Fun Retrospectives
• Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Retrospectives
• The Retrospective Handbook
• Retrospectives for Organizational Change
• The Retrospectives Kickstarter
These books will make your agile retrospectives rock!
Teams will love to do them :-).
leanpub.com/b/agileretrospectives
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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!
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Agile, Lean, Quality & Continuous Improvement
Retrospectives Facilitator
Agile Coach/Mentor/Trainer
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