De Agile Self-assessment Game is een kaartspel wat teams kunnen gebruiken om hun agility te verhogen. Marijke Vandermaesen speelde het spel met haar team in een retrospective en stuurde mij haar ervaringen die ik graag deel met jullie. Haar conclusie: “de game is een goed format voor een retro voor teams die pas starten en zoeken naar praktijken om op te nemen of meer ervaren teams die goed op elkaar ingespeeld zijn en zoeken naar de laatste puntjes om op de i te zetten”. More →
Many agile coaches are looking for new innovative ways to help Scrum and Agile teams improve. They want to coach teams in a way that they can discover how they are doing and come up with ideas to become better and deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. The Agile Self-Assessment Game is a tool that helps them to do that. Andreas Schliep, Executive Partner at DasScrumTeam AG shared his experiences playing this game. More →
If you offer web development services then you are aware of the challenges faced when trying to keep a project in scope. Here’s a guest blog with lots of ideas on how to estimate a web application project by Thanh Pham, CEO of a Vietnamese software development outsourcing company. More →
Making a business case for agile starts by understanding what agile is about and considering how agile can help you. You have to define your own metrics and track them to see if agile is bringing you business value, and reflect on your agile journey to learn, and adopt. More →
The second version of the Greek edition of our Agile Retrospectives book has been published. Two chapters and three retrospective exercises have been added. More →
The first World Retrospectives Day is coming, and we need your help to make it great. Please join the Survey on World Retrospectives Day to sign up and let us know what you’d expect from a World Retrospectives Day. More →
If you have played the Agile Self-assessment Game then please give me feedback with this survey, and get the updated version of the game for free. More →
Adopting agile ways of working often impacts the organizational structure. In this guest blog post Shibabrata Mondal explores the impact and provides suggestions for changing the organizational structure to accommodate for agile. He also touches on the role of the functional manager in agile. More →
I played the Agile Self-assessment game with two teams in a session at the Retrospectives Facilitators Gathering 2017 and discussed the game with several attendees. Here are the ideas that came up for playing the game and for improving it. More →
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Agile Self-assessment Game: V2.0 released
June 16, 2017
A new version of the Agile Self-assessment Game has been released. There's an introduction discount of 50% on the game and all expansion packs. More →
Join the Survey on World Retrospectives Day
June 5, 2017
The first World Retrospectives Day is coming, and we need your help to make it great. Please join the Survey on World Retrospectives Day to sign up and let us know what you'd expect from a World Retrospectives Day. More →
