Agile Games - Playful approaches to agile principles
- 1. Agile Games Playful approaches to agile principles 2nd int. CTO Conference | Berlin | Nov. 7th 2013
- 3. Agile Enthusiast since 2007 ! Agile Leadership ! Agile Enterprise ! Scrum, Kanban, Lean Startup ! Speaker + Facilitator ! !
- 7. Benjamin Franklin Well done is better than well said.“ „
- 11. One does not learn architecture from classrooms and libraries as much as one does by doing it and reflecting on the outcomes and their effects on others. “ „ Russell Ackoff, Re-Creating the Corporation
- 12. Warm-Up
- 13. The Table Game
- 15. Build groups of 10 people 1 person to stand out of each group Each team: form a circle (facing in) Each player: hold the rope in your right hand Each player: pass the other end to a person across from you Project Mgr: direct team so that it is untangled and standing side by side in a circle Team: follow PM’s instructions Project Mgr: observe and do not say anything Team: Untangle yourself
- 16. When to play the Rope Game? What can we learn from this exercise? In a nutshell
- 17. What can we learn from this? This exercise demonstrates the power of a team’s ability to solve complex problems when they collaborate. ! It resonates with Agile in that you encourage the team to be self-organising to get the full benefit of their abilities. faster, proper solution (is there a ’best solution’?) ! more fun
- 18. Benjamin Franklin All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. “ „
- 19. Sir Ken Robinson, alphabet, by Erwin Wagenhofer People are at their best, when they do what they love. “ „
- 20. Moving Motivators (by Jurgen Appelo, Management 3.0)
- 21. 1st Step: Important to You unimportant important
- 22. 2nd Step: Effects of Change positive change negative change
- 23. Your turn (25 mins) 1. Pair up w/s.o. you haven't talked to today 2. Do the following one-by-one (play / observe) A. Find out what’s important to you ! B. Consider a change in your work life and determine how this affects your motivators
- 24. 3rd Step: Reflection on Motivation positive change negative change unimportant important
- 25. When to play Moving Motivators? What can we learn from this exercise? In a nutshell
- 26. reveals the effect of (organisational) change on your/your team’s motivators interesting for teams to find out what motivates their team members can be performed with people in (private) one-on-one situations helps you realize that you may have some work to do on your own motivation …
- 28. helpful resources on Moving Motivators http://www.noop.nl/2011/09/moving-motivators-free- exercise.html ! http://www.management30.com/product/moving-motivators/
- 30. Start Ending
- 31. Focus&
- 32. Challenge
- 33. Context
- 34. safe-‐to-‐fail
- 35. Debriefing transforming fun to real learning
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- 37. Your turn (18 mins) 1. Split into groups of 10 players 2. Each team grab 20 sticks of spaghetti, 1 mtr of string, 1 mtr of tape, 1 marshmallow, scissors 3. W/the material at hand tinker a „building“/„skeleton“ as tall as possible w/Marshallow on top within 18 mins must be stable enough to stand upright for at least 15 secs w/o touching it measure + write down the hight of your „building“ / „skeleton“
- 38. Start TypicalProgress 18 Minutes Orient 0 18 Minutes Orient 0 18 Plan Minutes Orient 0 18 Plan Build Minutes Orient 0 18 Plan Ta-Da! Minutes BuildOrient 0 18 Plan Oh-Oh! Minutes Build RecentKindergartenSchoolGraduates
- 44. When to play Marshmallow Challenge? What can we learn from this exercise? In a nutshell
- 46. fun, playful approaches repetitive exercises => training productive work => transfer learnings to work life pushes unconventional approaches boosts creativity & imagination helps form new teams Why Games?
- 48. Want to learn more about Play4Agile Unconference http://p4a13.wordpress.com/ Agile Games Conference, Boston, MA http://www.agilegames2013.com/ http://tastycupcakes.org/category/games/ Agile Games?
- 49. play games! Do it again:
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