If your organization wants to become agile and lean, teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively.
Playing the Impediment Board 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.
The impediment game teaches you the five steps for handling impediments effectively:
– recognize and analyze impediments
– find out how they hinder the team
– find effective solutions to deal with them
– decide what to do and who can do it
– learn how to become more effective in dealing with impediments
Agile coaches use the Impediment Board Game in agile transformations to coach teams and help them to become self-organized and empowered to solve any impediments that they might face on their agile journey.
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Dealing effectively with impediments - Agile Management Congress 2019 - Ben Linders
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Problem? What Problem?
Learn how to deal effectively with impediments
Agile Management Congress Prague
November 25 2019
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Impediments
anything that
slows people
down and
needs to be
dealt with
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Handling Impediments
Recognize impediments
Understand how they hinder the team
Explore effective solutions
Decide how to solve and who takes action
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Recognize: Catch Signals
Something somebody said
Behavior, what’s being done
What people are not doing/skipping
Anomaly in data or measurement
You can observe a lot by just watching –Yogi Berra
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Examples of Signals
“My work is done, I’m waiting for other people”
There’s no stand-up meeting when the Scrum
master isn’t there that day
“We can only deliver on time by skipping the
retrospective”
The R&D manager just dropped in and told team
members they need to do some other work
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Recognizing Impediments
Signals, not problem
Stop and reflect
Probe & Sense (Cynefin)
Analyze to understand
Don’t shoot messenger
Ignoring doesn’t make the
impediment go away
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Impediment Training & Coaching
Download Coaching Cards Board Game
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.
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Assessing your Agility
Over 80 tools:
• Self-Assessment checklists
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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
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• Tailoring the Agile Self-assessment Game to your specific needs
• Licenses for playing the game
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