Meetup Agile Self-assessment Game - Budapest 2020 - Ben Linders

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Becoming agile is a journey, and it can be a difficult one. Playing the Agile Self-Assessment Game can help you to come up with ideas to smoothly and successfully travel your agile journey. Assuming that you know why you want to become agile (a first but crucial step), you start looking for ways of getting there. Questions like “what do you want to keep from your current way of working?” and “what would you like to change?” will come up at the start. The next questions that usually pop up are “how are we doing?” and “what can we do to improve and increase our agility?”. In this meetup, people will form teams to play different playing formats described in the successful book The Agile Self-Assessment Game. They will learn ways to discover how agile you are – and what you can do to increase your agility. After the meetup, participants will be able to play the game with your own team. The game and book can be downloaded for a nominal fee at benlinders.com/shop. Attendees will receive a discount code to download the Book & Cards package to play the game with their own team.

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Meetup, February 11, Budapest
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