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The Agile Self-assessment Game

An Agile Coaching Tool for Improving the Agility of Your Teams and Organization

The Agile Self-Assessment Game is used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. With plenty of ideas, suggestions, and practical cases on Agile Self-assessments, this book will help you to apply assessments and support teams and organizations to self-improve.

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The Agile Self-Assessment Game is used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing the game enables teams to reflect on their own team interworking, discover how agile they are and decide what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders.

This is the first book specifically about Agile Self-assessments. In this book, Ben Linders explains what self-assessments are and why you would do them, and explore how to do them using the Agile Self-assessment Game. He's also sharing experience stories from people who played the game.

This book is based on his experience as a developer, tester, team leader, project manager, quality manager, process manager, consultant, coach, trainer, and adviser in Agile, Lean, Quality and Continuous Improvement. It takes a deep dive into self-assessments, viewing them from different perspectives and provides ideas, suggestions, practices, and experiences that will help you to do effective agile self-assessments with your teams.

The book is aimed at Scrum masters, agile coaches, consultants leading agile transformations, developers and testers, project managers, line managers, and CxOs; basically for anyone who is looking for an effective way to help their agile teams improve and to increase the agility of their organization.

To play the game described in the book, please buy a package that includes the cards. Currently available are:

  • Agile Self-assessment Game - English edition: The book (in English) with 52 basic Agile cards and expansions packs for Scrum (39 cards), Kanban (52 cards), DevOps (26 cards) and Business Agility (26 cards). Total of 195 English cards!
  • Juego Autoevaluación Ágil - Spanish edition: The book (in English) with 52 basic Agile cards in Spanish and expansions packs in Spanish for Scrum (39 cards), Kanban (52 cards), DevOps (26 cards) and Business Agility (26 cards). Total of 195 Spanish cards!
  • Agilní sebehodnotící hra - Czech edition: The book (in English) with 52 basic Agile cards in Czech and expansions packs in Czech for Scrum (39 cards), Kanban (52 cards), DevOps (26 cards) and Business Agility (26 cards). Total of 195 Czech cards!
  • Gra Agile Self-Assessment - Polish edition: The book (in English) with 52 basic Agile cards in Polish and expansions packs in Polish for Scrum (39 cards), Kanban (52 cards), DevOps (26 cards) and Business Agility (26 cards). Total of 195 Polish cards!
  • Agile Zelfevaluatie Kaarten - Dutch edition: The book (in English) with 52 basic Agile cards in Dutch and expansions packs in Dutch for Scrum (39 cards), Kanban (52 cards), DevOps (26 cards), and Business Agility (26 cards). Total of 195 Dutch cards!
  • Jeu de cartes d’autoévaluation Agile - French edition: The book (in English) with 52 basic Agile cards in French. Total of 52 French cards!

Additional cards can be bought in the Agile Games webshop.

More information can be found on the Agile Self-assessment Game website.

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All packages include the ebook in the following formats: PDF, EPUB, and Web

The Book

Minimum price

Suggested price$9.99

The Agile Self-assessment Game ebook without cards. Select a package with cards if you want to play the game.

$8.99

    Jeu de cartes d’autoévaluation Agile - English book & French cards (Agile)

    Minimum price

    Suggested price$21.99

    The Agile Self-assessment Game book in English with 52 French cards: Agile (PDF format)

    $19.99

    • French Cards (Agile)

    This book is also available in the following packages:

    • English Book & Cards (Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Kanban, Business Agility)

      The Agile Self-assessment Game book with all 195 English cards: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, and Business Agility (PDF format)

      • Agile Card Game
        Agile Cards
      • Scrum Card Game
        Scrum Cards
      • Kanban Card Game
      • DevOps Card Game
      • Business Agility Card Game
      Minimum price
      $32.99
      Suggested price
      $35.99
    • Juego Autoevaluación Ágil - English Book & Spanish Cards (Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Kanban, Business Agility)

      The Agile Self-assessment Game book in English with all 195 Spanish cards: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, and Business Agility (PDF format)

      • Spanish Cards (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, Business Agility)
      Minimum price
      $32.99
      Suggested price
      $35.99
    • Agilní sebehodnotící hra - English Book & Czech Cards (Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Kanban, Business Agility)

      The Agile Self-assessment Game book in English with all 195 Czech cards: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, and Business Agility (PDF format)

      • Czech Cards (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, Business Agility)
      Minimum price
      $32.99
      Suggested price
      $35.99
    • Gra Agile Self-Assessment - English Book & Polish Cards (Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Kanban, Business Agility)

      The Agile Self-assessment Game book in English with all 143 Polish cards: Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Kanban, and Business Agility (PDF format)

      • Polish Cards (Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Kanban, Business Agility)
      Minimum price
      $32.99
      Suggested price
      $35.99
    • Agile Zelfevaluatie Kaarten - English book & Dutch cards (Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Kanban, Business Agility)

      The Agile Self-assessment Game book in English with 117 Dutch cards: Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Kanban, Business Agility (PDF format)

      • Dutch cards (Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Kanban, Business Agility)
      Minimum price
      $32.99
      Suggested price
      $35.99

    Author

    About the Author

    Ben Linders

    Ben Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile, Lean, Quality, and Continuous Improvement. Author of Getting Value out of Agile RetrospectivesWaardevolle Agile RetrospectivesWhat Drives QualityProblem? What Problem?, and Continuous Improvement. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools, for example, the Agile Self-assessment Game.

    As an adviser, coach, and trainer he helps organizations with deploying effective software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement, collaboration and communication, and professional development, to deliver business value to customers.

    Ben is a well-known speaker and author; he’s much respected for sharing his experiences and helping others share theirs. His books and games have been translated into more than 12 languages and are used by professionals in teams and organizations all around the world.

    Ben is an active member of networks on Agile, Lean, and Quality, and a well-known speaker and author. He shares his experiences in a bilingual blog (Dutch and English), as an editor for Culture and Methods at InfoQ, and as an expert in communities like ComputableQuoraDZone, and TechTarget. Follow him on twitter: @BenLinders.

    In need of advice, consultancy, training? Have a question? Contact me!  info@benlinders.com

    Leanpub Podcast

    Episode 95

    An Interview with Ben Linders

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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    Preface

    Introduction

    Agile Self-assessment Game

    1. Assessing your Agility
    2. Gamification
    3. Playing the Game
    4. Getting the Cards
    5. Doing Retrospectives using Assessments

    Playing Suggestions

    1. Creating the Cards
    2. Preselecting Cards
    3. Basic Game Playing Format
    4. Variants on the Basic Game
    5. Health Check
    6. Investing in Agile
    7. Sailboat Retrospective with the Game
    8. First Things First
    9. Deep Thought
    10. Best Agile Practice Contest
    11. Worst Agile Practice Contest
    12. Sketching your Agile Journey
    13. Learning by Sharing Challenges
    14. Sailboat Futurespective
    15. Angel’s Advocate
    16. Two Truths and a Lie
    17. More Ideas for Playing the Game

    Experience Stories

    1. Playing the Agile Self-assessment Game at XP Days 2016
    2. Help Scrum and Agile Teams Improve
    3. Ideas for playing the Agile Self-assessment Game
    4. Playing the Agile Self-assessment Game in Retrospectives
    5. Self-assessing How Agile You Are
    6. Your Experience Story

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Assessment Tools and Checklists

    1. Tools and Checklists for Agile Self-assessments
    2. Nederlandstalige Agile Assessments
    3. Background Information on Agile Self-Assessments

    Getting the Agile Self-assessment Cards

    1. Download from Ben Linders’ Webshop
    2. Packages with Cards

    Training and Support

    1. Kick-off Training for Agile Self-assessment Game
    2. Agile Self-assessment Game - Corporate Edition
    3. Assessing your Agility Services
    4. Increasing your Agility Workshops
    5. Free Lifetime Support for Playing the Game

    About the Author

    Bibliography

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