Introduction This game was created using Google Sheets and is based on the popular game Cards Against Humanity. They were designed to develop awareness and poke fun at Agile practices, as the questions and answers can be rather irreverent. Playing the game with an Agile team provides an enjoyable, low consequence environment to try out new ideas and explore new modes of interaction. If you’ve…
Virtual Scrum Values Game
The Virtual Scrum values game allows you to play the Scrum Values Game with your team no matter where they are located. This game takes the traditional paper cards and replaces them with a updated virtual version of the game. By using the same tools you use to do Stand Ups for your virtual teams you now have a tool to use in Retrospectives to…
This Sprint Future-O-Spective with Santa Claus!
Here’s the festive season again and Santa Claus is coming to town. We need to take care of the balloons during the party so they shouldn’t look awful (deflated). What may be the impediments which need to be taken care? During freezing weather, balloons shrink up terribly Balloons should be retained for longer period of time Safeguard balloons from our pet parrot with curved beak…
Telestrations for Teams
Timing: Really depends on the group size, but I’d allow at least 2 hours for a group of 10 to play three rounds. Materials: The board game Telestrations. There are two versions of this game, an eight player version and a 12 player party-pack version for larger groups. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/46213/telestrations It’s available online (Amazon, etc), or from most decent shops which sell board games. …
Upside Downside
This exercise was co-created as part of a collaboration day between myself and Paul Goddard Timing: 30-45 minutes (depending upon the complexity, emotion or controversy around the topic) Materials: None Instructions: This is typically used in retrospectives but could be used by teams to critique or evaluate potential options at any time. Split the group into two even-sized sub-groups One of the sub-groups has the…