Cards for Agility Game

31/12/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

I was cleaning up today and came across some resources I had collected from the Agile 2015 conference in Washington, D.C. Sanjiv Augustine and his team from LitheSpeed had a booth where I spun a wheel and won a set of pre-printed Cards for Agility game cards.

I was pleased to see that the deck is easily printable (as my set was a little bent). It looks like a fun game to play with a team adjusting to Agile practices.

The original post describes the game and the instructions and has links to the scenario (yellow) and answer (white) card packs.

Episode 140: Spinning the AgilityHealth Radar with Sally Elatta

28/12/201728/12/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig sits down with Sally Elatta, Founder and President of Agile Transformation and AgilityHealth at the Agile 2016 Conference in Atlanta and they talk about:

First things first, the AgilityHealth discs are not a frisbee!
The AgilityHealth vision is to help Agile teams have a consistent way to measure their health and performance and see the results in a visual way and secondly for leadership to understand the cause and effect – the radar opens up a conversation
AgilityHealth radars
The team radar has five dimensions – leadership, performance, clarify, foundation and culture – a healthy team should have these
It is not a survey tool, it is a facilitated retrospective to promote healthy conversation and create an action plan
We should be doing tactical retrospectives every sprint, but the missing component is strategic retrospectives once every quarter
Business agility relies on having healthy teams
Many other radars including…

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Episode 139: Talking Agile Craft with Steve Elliott

17/12/201717/12/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig chats with Steve Elliott, the founder and CEO of Agile Craft and they discuss:

Dependencies are the number one thing that kills agility
Scaling agility across a large organisation is a 5 – 10 year journey
Scrum is often disconnected from the portfolio planning layer, the scaling methods are making the program level agile and predictable
If you want business agility you have to hinge the technology into the business
Sometimes it takes a few attempts for agile transformations, like tipping over a Coke machine (and unlike tipping a cow), you need to lead with results and then work on cultural change to be successful
If the leader of an Agile transformation left the organisation, would they go back to the old way or is Agile part of their DNA – if they would go back they have not been transformed
The scaling Agile frameworks are relatively new…

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