Introduction

This book is about Agile Self-assessments, a practice that teams and organizations use to explore how well they are doing and come up with ideas to improve their agility.

What’s in This Book

In this book, I explore the Agile Self-assessment Game, a card game that I created and that is now played by teams all over the world. Teams use it to reflect on their own interworking and to agree upon the next steps for their agile journey.

There’s a full chapter with Playing Suggestions which provides ideas for how to play the game in your teams.

I’m providing Experience Stories, from myself and from others who played the game, to inspire you and share how to use the cards and show what the game can do.

The list of Frequently Asked Questions provide answers to any question that you might have about agile self-assessments and playing the game.

The Agile Self-assessment Game is one of the ways to assess your agility. The chapter Assessment Tools and Checklists provides additional checklists and tools for agile assessments.

This Agile Self-assessments book doesn’t intend to teach you the theory behind self-assessments or provide detailed descriptions of all possible self-assessment tools and practices. There are several possibilities to get training and support for playing the game.

The Bibliography provides an extensive list of books, articles, and links, that you can use to acquire in-depth knowledge of self-assessments.

How To Use the Book

This is a practical book with many techniques and ideas that you can apply in your specific situation. It aims to help you to support teams that want to improve and become fully self-organized.

There are many suggestions in this book which help you to apply self-assessments. They are marked as tips with a key symbol:

I also added stories and cases from organizations that I have worked with to share my experience:

The suggestions provided in this book are suitable for agile coaches, Scrum masters, agile teams, and managers of agile organizations.

With plenty of ideas, suggestions, and practical cases on Agile Self-assessments, this book will help you to apply assessments in your organization and help teams to improve.