If your organization wants to become agile and lean, teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. Playing the impediment game, you will practice how to recognize and analyze impediments, understand how they hinder teams, and decide what to do by deploying agile and lean principles and good practices. You'll learn to become more effective by recognizing impediments early and get rid of them before they become a major issue.

1. Problem? What Problem?
Handling impediments quickly and effectively
Ben Linders
Trainer / Coach / Adviser /
Author / Speaker

3. 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
The Agile Self-assessment Game Continuous Improvement
Games: Agile Self-assessment Game Retrospective Bingo Impediment Cards

4. Impediments
anything that
slows down a
team and needs
to be dealt with

5. Handling Impediments
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Catch signals
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Understand the problems
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Think how to deploy practices
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Decide who takes action

6. Agile Impediment Game

7. Share what you learned
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8. Questions?
Ben Linders
Independent Consultant Agile, Lean,
Quality & Continuous Improvement
info@BenLinders.com
@BenLinders
www.linkedin.com/in/benlinders
www.facebook.com/BenLindersConsulting
www.benlinders.com

9. Impediment Coaching Cards
Improve impediment skills
For agile teams, Tech leads,
Scrum masters, Agile coaches,
project or line managers,
consultants, anyone involved in or
working with agile teams.
Download Impediment Cards

10. Assessing your Agility
Over 70 tools:
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Self-Assessment checklists
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Readyness checks
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Maturity assessments
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Agile health checks
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Measurements
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Books
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And much more! Agile Self-Assessments

11. 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”

12. Making Agile Work for You
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