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Our team kit is a little box of lovely agile tools that we built to give you two things: a gift from product or leadership teams to make delivery teams feel valued. resources to help your people deliver software better. We had in mind users who need both of these things at the same time. When organisations have an agile transformation, or an office refurbishment, for instance, they may have neither the agile background or stationery they need and may have already dealt with a degree of disruption. This team kit offers them a bit of support with both.  ...

We have been helping Laurence Wood launch his new agile team game 'Richer Retrospectives'. Laurence has worked with consultancies Syngenta, Indigo Blue and Mastek. He is currently helping the NHS deliver their 999 and 111 services through his company Agile Lozenge. Richer Retrospectives is a deck of cards describing  behaviours common in project and engineering teams. Some of the behaviours are positive others are clearly anti-patterns. Users are invited to record how frequently each behaviour occurs in their environment. We helped Laurence produce his decks and later caught up with him for some questions. Here is what he said: Agile Stationery: How...

We took one of our best selling card games to play at Leeds Digital Festival - an open platform technology event billed as the largest digital festival in the North. The game was Elevation of Privilege - a card deck of cyber security anti-patterns which supports players as they attempt to find validated security flaws in a system. Helping us were Gwen Diagram of Monzo, an international speaker and testing leader, and her colleague security expert Paul Pinder of Sky. Gwen was an excellent facilitator and Paul a passionate, and knowledgeable teacher. We'd like to thank Gwen for the key...

We were delighted to welcome an audience of agile practitioners to the offices of PwC to learn about the Cynefin framework and the A&E Game developed by Dean Latchana.Before starting we divided into groups. Dean presented his game in a thoughtful and entertaining way and was an excellent speaker. Noting that his audience on the night were rather fresh to Cynefin, he presented just one facet of the knowledge from the framework - the level of agreement between decision makers and the certainty of facts present in the situation.We were provided with a set of cards which explained a set...

The Elevation of Privilege (EOP) game is designed to help you easily and quickly find threats to software or computer systems. Until now, considering a system from an attackers’ perspective was hard to wrap your head around. The game helps you identify attacks within a six category framework and is intended to be picked up and used by any development group. Agile Stationery are very pleased to be hosting a session on EOP at the Leeds Digital Festival on 25th April where we will play the game, and see how it works in practice. Gwen Diagram will share tips and...