Unlocking Team Creativity: The Elementalist’s Enigma Escape Room Icebreaker

Note: The post was first published on Medium here by Sunish Chabba and has been reproduced here as-is. As an Agile Coach and Consultant, I’ve often grappled with the challenge of maintaining a vibrant, creative atmosphere during workshops and strategy sessions. My love for board games and escape rooms inspired me to design my own escape room game, with a focus on fostering collaboration and…

“Everyone is right, only partially” – Exploring Perspectives, Improving Relationships

Improving Relationships by Exploring Different Perspectives The quality of the relationships between people is directly related to how much they trust each other, and trust (as a manifestation of Psychological Safety) is known to underpin happinness and high performance in any team. Often, relationships have challenges and get stuck there because of different perspectives not being aired, explored and understood – and differences going unresolved.…

Being Agile Canvas

The Being Agile Canvas Template

The Agile Canvas – agile sprint planning template Get started with Agile using the simple sprint planning Being Agile canvas Introduce others to Agile methods. The agile canvas is a simple template to help bring an agile angle to your work and life. Download your copy of the canvas and a free video course to help you apply agile The canvas is a great way…

Scale Agile simulator

The Scale Agile simulator is accessible on our site: https://scale.octigo.pl/ The Scale Agile simulator allows you to play a team of 2-5 people at once. It demonstrates the problems of sharing resources, bottlenecks, picking people up, prioritizing and responding to opportunities. The goal of the players is to deliver tasks of the highest value within a given number of sprints. In addition to individual effectiveness,…

CLUE: The Retro

This is a semi-self-paced retro designed to be done within 60-75 minutes. It uses the board from the boardgame Clue as a metaphor. This retro was designed for use on Mural or Miro after witnessing really uninspiring retros online that didn’t do any examination into underlying causations before deciding on actions. You start in the Hall to open the retro. Here you could do a…