In March of 2020, I joined a new company as a #scrummaster. Initially, it was to be an in-office position, but due to covid-19, our office went remote (temporarily). While I am thankful to be reaping the benefits of working remotely (decreased carbon footprint/work-life balance), helping spin-up teams remotely has its challenges. One challenge I faced was how to help teams understand flow. One popular…
Mindset Matching Game
Mindset Matching This game is designed to introduce and/or reinforce the three types of mindsets: Fixed, Growth, and Benefit. Learn about mindset science and how it is critical to transformations in this blog post. The game’s Built-in List includes two categories of playing cards: Paradigm and Scenario. The Paradigm cards represent the outlook a person with a specific mindset may have on multiple aspects of life.…
Online Taboo Game
It is a fun game to play both with individuals or teams. — How to create cards? You can find a template for Taboo cards under this link. ( At the beginning I have just used a Powerpoint / Keynote slides to create cards, which also worked fine). Then it is time to prepare the cards. — How many cards should be prepared? If you…
Flipping Agile Pizza
An online mashup of Ralf Kruse’s Kanban pizza and the penny flip game. The initial version was distributed to my network and I have seen at least one variation. This is the MVP version, which has been improved and can be run as a 45-60 minute workshop. MVP instructions How to run it: Imagine you’re a chef. In front of you is a table and…
Epic Online Futurespective
A journey into your team’s bright future! By Thomas Spielhofer, Gregor Habinger, Johanna Amlacher and Ana Popovic May 2020 Purpose of this gamification format: The purpose of this format is to help in a team-building process when merely online communication through the Internet is available. It is inspired by solution focussed coaching (and similar methods such as future pacing), focussing on a bright common future…