Cynefin with the Team DrawerКеневин с командным рисовальщиком

Authors: Ilia Pavlichenko and Alexei Pikulev. We will show the game that helps to understand Cynefin and dynamics of transitions within it. We called the game “Cynefin with the Team Drawer” and to play it we need: Several sets of the Team Drawer (one for each team, look at the photo below). It is a small wooden platform with a big hole in the middle…

Copycats

As somebody in the team described it, “it’s like Chinese whispers, but with pictures”. The inspiration for this game came from a children’s TV game show called copycats. Timing: A team of 5 people with two rounds and a intro and debrief for each round took 20 minutes in total. Materials:  A team of 5+ people, if larger could be split into two teams. A…

TDD: Test Driven Drawing

Timing: 30 minutes Materials: Preferably an even number of players as they play in pairs, but you can have one team of 3. Each team needs 4 sheets of paper and pens. One of these sheets of paper needs a number of basic shapes drawn on them in a fairly simple layout. For example the shape page could contain a circle containing a diamond, two squares…

Gift Box

(this exercise was co-created as part of a collaboration day between myself and Geoff Watts, credit to Paul Z Jackson from his book) Timings: 5-10 mins Materials: 2 people (standing up) Instructions: One person holds an imaginary box in front of them. This imaginary box is capable of holding any item imaginable. The partner’s job is to mime pulling items out of the box, whilst…