Agile Self-assessment Game - XP Days Benelux 2016 - Ben Linders

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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
Heeze, November 24, 2016
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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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Thank you!Thank you!
Ben Linders
Independent Consultant Agile, Lean,
Quality & Continuous Improvement
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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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leanpub.com/gettingvalueoutofagileretrospectives
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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
Discounted price: $30,48 (excl. VAT)

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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
CMMI & People-CMM Assessor
Freelance Editor for InfoQ.com
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Co-Author Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
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The agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. They help teams to become agile by deploying agile practices in an effective way and continuously learning and improve themselves. This talk explains the “what” and “why” of retrospectives and the business value and benefits that they can bring. Examples will be given of exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives, supported with advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. It is based on the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives which is published on InfoQ, Amazon, Leanpub. Retrospectives are a great way for teams to improve their way of working, to become more agile and lean. Getting actions out of a retrospective that are doable, and getting them done helps teams to improve continuously and deliver more value to their customers.

Spicing up Agile Retrospectives - Agile Tour London 2015 - Ben Linders

Ben Linders

The agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. Retrospectives help teams to deploy agile practices in an effective way and to continuously learn and improve themselves. Ben Linders, co-author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, will talk about the why and how of agile retrospectives, with much practical tips, stories, and examples. Ben will also give a workshop on Valuable Agile Retrospectives on October 22.

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Ben Linders

Communication is an important factor in improvement programs. Communication pictures the goals and approach of an improvement program. It can motivate people to commit to change, by showing expected benefits and early results. But wrong or too much communication can also frustrate people, getting them to resist changing. Many improvement programs are run by technical persons, in a technical environment. Often communication is undervalued and underestimated, and perceived as difficult. It is something that people are inexperienced in, which makes them feel uncomfortable. But if they get started, and take some hurdles, they can get better in it. This presentation provides hands-on information, and hint & tips. This presentation will show how vital communication is for improvement programs. It supplies a set of tools and techniques to improve the visibility of targets and results, and will explain how this has been used to monitor and steer continuous improvement in an R&D organization. Views on continuous improvement from different stakeholders are included, to show their needs on communication.

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Experiences with Data Feedback - Better Software 2004 - Ben Linders

Ben Linders

Good data feedback of software measurements is critical when analyzing measurement data, for drawing conclusions, and as the basis for taking action. Feedback to those involved in the activities being measured helps validate the data as well. In this presentation Ben Linders shows examples of how Ericsson Telecommunications delivers feedback at two levels: projects and the total development center. Although the basics are similar, the application differs, and the key success factors depend on the level and the audience. At the project level, you will see how the team reviews defect data, including defect classifications and test matrices. For development center feedback, you will see how line management and technical engineers review data and analyze information based on a balanced score card approach with measurable goals. Finally, Ben Linders shows examples, data summaries, and suggested action items that management teams from the project and development center levels review. • Techniques used in data feedback reporting and key success factors • Close the feedback loop with different levels in the organization • Human factors that play a role in feedback sessions

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Experiences using Root Cause Analysis for Improvement, Ben Linders, European ...

Ben Linders

http://www.benlinders.com The presentation will show how Root Cause Analysis (RCA) can be applied in way that it supports reaching the business goals of an organisation. It is based on the results of an investigation done after applying RCA for several years. This has lead to effective RCA methods, applied at specific points in the processes, with significant results. Also the role of RCA in Total Quality Management and Statistical Process Control is explained, and RCA as a pragmatic implementation of the CMMI Causal Analysis & Resolution process area is elaborated.

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To get more insight into the quality of the product during development, it is needed to measure processes with two views: Introduction of defects, and detection. Introduction is done during the requirements, architecture, design and coding phases; defects are either introduced into documents or into the actual product code. Detection is done in test phases, and in the previously mentioned phases by means of inspections and reviews. By using these two measurements, a project can determine if and what the quality risk is: Too many defects in the product, or insufficient testing done. The presentation will focus upon: - Goals: What was the purpose of the model, why was it developed, what did we want to reach? - How: Both the definition of the model and its implementation and application will be highlighted? - Tools: The tool that was developed to implement the model, how it works, strengths. - Results: How did the model and tool help the project? Did it live up to its purpose? - Success factors: What were the key issues that we have dealt successfully with? Why did we focus on them, and how? - Future: How is this model used in future projects, what could further increase its benefits? The presentation will show the benefits that the model/tool has brought to the project and organisation. Mainly it was the ability to manage process & product quality, and support decisions, based on data collected in the project and industrial date, i.e. without having to build up historical data in previous projects. The defect model uses techniques like Orthogonal Defect Classification and Test Matrices for analysis of the defect data. Feedback of the data towards designers, testers, and project management was key in validating the data, and getting good analysis results for corrective and preventive actions.

Agile quality: Maximize results with a small quality team - PSQT 2005 - Ben L...

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How could you maintain quality and organizational efficiency, when the quality staff is reduced? What can you do to optimize improvement effort, and contribute to organizational results? How do you keep up morale in difficult times? This presentation will show a continuous process of keeping focus, involving people from line and projects, collaboration, and communication. The approach was driven by strong needs from management, and implemented based on values and key success factors of the company. The results are better control, increased performance, and meeting organizational targets.

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