Problem? What Problem? (Full Package: Book & Impediment Coaching Cards & Impediment Board Game)
Problem? What Problem?
Dealing Effectively with Impediments using Agile Thinking with Problem-solving Practices
About the Book
Agile emphasizes to establish teams and give them whatever they need to do their work. This book on impediments explores how teams can effectively deal with the problems that will happen in their daily work. In agile these problems are called impediments: anything that slows down a team and needs to be dealt with. Agile teams need to be able to handle impediments.
This is the first book specifically about dealing with impediments using agile thinking with problem-solving practices. In this book, I explain why dealing with impediments matters. The book also provides approaches for you to effectively handle impediments in teams and beyond the teams. I'm also sharing experience stories from my practice.
I based this book on my 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. This book dives into problem solving and impediments, viewing them from different perspectives and provides ideas, suggestions, practices, and experiences that will help you to become more effective in dealing with impediments.
This book is for agile teams, Scrum masters, tech leads, agile coaches, consultants, developers and testers, project managers, line managers, and CxOs; basically, anyone who is looking for an effective way to handle impediments or support people in doing that.
With plenty of ideas, suggestions, examples, and practical cases on impediments, this book will help you to become more effective in dealing with impediments.
The full package includes two successful Agile Coaching Tools:
- The Impediment Coaching Cards: For coaches, teams, and organizations to improve impediment handling skills.
- The Impediment Board Game: Learn how to recognize impediments and explore ways for dealing with them by playing this game.
This book is also available on Amazon in paperback format: Problem? What Problem? (paperback).
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Reader Testimonials
Scott Duncan
Lead Coach & Trainer at Agile Software Qualities
Impediments. Problems. Nobody wants them. You probably can't avoid them. They're often no fun to deal with. They may push you into difficult conversations/discussions. This book is a very useful resource for figuring out how to navigate them. Ben has collected a wide range of experience-based advice that you will find helpful.
Thomas Cagley
Transformation Coach
Teams find problems that impact their ability to deliver value. The question is, what then? Ben Linders steps into the gap between finding a problem and living happily ever after with his new book, Problem? What Problem? This book directly addresses problem-solving at a level that agile teams can use, right now!
David Spinks
Agile Adventurer, PST, AKT
When working in an agile way, problems and impediments are quickly revealed. But what then? What are we actually supposed to do about it? With years of experience in the software development industry, Ben Linders provides a go-to resource in Problem? What Problem? that is full of practical advice for individuals, teams and organisations seeking strategies to deal with their problems.
Srinath Ramakrishnan
Agile Coach and Consultant
Problems and impediments are common to those working in Agile. It is important to quickly identify them and find ways to means to either resolve the impediment or work around it. Ben Linders, with all his experience, comes up with a great book on how to address these issues and gives practical solutions to problems and impediments. This book is a great reference with the tools and techniques to navigate impediments both at a team level and at an organizational level.
Paddy Corry
Scrum Master at eShopWorld, Writer/Editor for Serious Scrum, Founder of Dublin North Agile
I really enjoyed the book: I found it to be right-sized and practical in the tone of advice offered. There are many techniques described in the book that will be useful to people in any role in an agile team, regardless of experience level or the framework preferred in your current context. For anyone dealing with impediments, finding a way forward can feel challenging. This book will refresh your mindset and systematically offer tactical approaches.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
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Introduction
- My Experience with Solving Problems
- What’s in This Book
- Using the Book
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Problem Solving and Impediments
- Impediments and Signals
- Dealing with Impediments
- There Will Be Problems
- Agile Mindset and Thinking
- Agile Teams Deal with Problems Themselves
- We Can’t Solve All Impediments
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Dealing with Impediments in Teams
- Recognizing Impediments
- Understanding How Impediments Hinder Teams
- Exploring Effective Solutions
- Deciding on the Actions
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Intermezzo: Agile Frameworks and Methods
- Scrum
- Scaled Agile Framework
- Large Scale-Scrum
- Scrum@Scale
- Nexus
- Other Methods and Frameworks
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Handling Impediments Beyond the Team Level
- Systemic Impediments
- Handling Systemic Impediments
- Recognizing Systemic Impediments
- Understanding the Impact Impediments Have
- Exploring Effective Solutions to Systemic Impediments
- Deciding on Organizational-wide Actions
- Dealing with Organizational-wide Impediments
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Increasing your Problem-solving Effectiveness
- Understand What You Are Trying to Solve
- Decide as a Team
- Don’t Try to Change Everything at Once
- Listen to Each Other
- Manage Your Impediments
- Managers, Support Your Teams
- Organize for Continuous Improvement
- Handling Impediments Effectively
- Agile Coaching Tools for Impediments
- Training and Support
- About the Author
- Bibliography
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