Escape a collapsing temple and learn about agile team dynamics
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The document outlines an interactive workshop designed by Martin Heider to explore agile team dynamics through a game called 'Escape the Cursed Temple.' Participants work in teams to navigate challenges and roles, reflecting on their strategies and communication methods. The session includes structured rounds of play and feedback, aiming to enhance team collaboration and insights on agile practices.
Escape a collapsing temple and learn about agile team dynamics
- 1. Escape a collapsing temple and learn about Agile team dynamics
- 2. Your Guide: Martin Heider Agile Trainer, Consultant & Coach Community Gardener & Initiator e.g. Play4Agile, Agile Coach Camp, Coach Reflection Day, etc. based in Nuremberg, Germany Twitter: @martinheider Email: mh@infomar.de
- 3. Inspiration Play4Agile & Malte Sussdorf
- 4. Session Goal Experience, observe & reflect Team dynamics
- 5. Take away Workshop format for 1 or several teams. Further insights that I can‘t promise.
- 6. Session structure Experience How we used itObserve Reflect
- 7. Escape the cursed temple. You have 10 minutes. Work as a team. You all survive or die! Here are the rules:
- 9. Can be played with 1 - 5 players • figures • tokens • dices
- 10. Draw pile
- 11. Gem depot
- 12. The dices Adventurer For moving from chamber to chamber and for discovering new chambers.
- 13. The dices Adventurer For moving from chamber to chamber and for discovering new chambers. Torch & key For entering chambers and for activating the magic gems.
- 14. The dices Adventurer For moving from chamber to chamber and for discovering new chambers. Torch & key For entering chambers and for activating the magic gems. Black mask Curses a dice. This dice is then blocked.
- 15. The dices Adventurer For moving from chamber to chamber and for discovering new chambers. Torch & key For entering chambers and for activating the magic gems. Black mask Curses a dice. This dice is then blocked. Golden mask Breaks the spell of up to 2 cursed dices of yours or team members in the same chamber.
- 16. There are 5 kinds of actions: 1. Opening a new chamber 2. Entering a chamber 3. Activating magic gems 4. Escaping the temple 5. Provoking a turn of fate
- 17. 1. Open temple chambers The red player rolled 2 runners and may open the new chamber. The new chamber can be placed in one of those 3 ways. New chamber from the draw pile. Stairway entrance The chambers entryway. The stairway must connect to the temple.
- 18. Dice icons with a red frame Those icons need to be rolled in order to enter this chamber. 2. Enter temple chambers
- 19. Roll the indicated number of dice icons to activate the magic gems. 3. Activate magic gems 7 keys alltogether
- 20. Roll as many as the number of gems left in the depot + 1. 4. Use the exit chamber to escape Give one dice to anyone left in the temple.
- 21. 5. Turn of fate If too many dices should be cursed, then transfering one of the seperate gems into the depot will break all the spells. This can be done twice only and will make escaping more difficult.
- 23. Round 1 Players Observers How many gems have been used? How many chambers have been opened? What is being said? What groupings on the board do you notice? Which communication channels are used? Who is leading? Why? Team
- 24. Round 1 Reflection Who escaped/ delivered? How do the burndown charts look like? How was it for the players? What did the observers notice? What strategy did the team use? Suggestions for improvement? (team/observer)
- 25. Round 2 Players Observers How many gems have been used? How many chambers have been opened? What is being said? What groupings on the board do you notice? Which communication channels are used? Who is leading? Why? Team
- 26. Round 2 Reflection Who escaped/ delivered? How do the burndown charts look like? How was it for the players? What did the observers notice? What strategy did the team use? Suggestions for improvement? (team/observer)
- 28. Meta- Reflection • Liftoffs • Scrum Trainings (Metaphors ) • Team dynamics • Retrospectives • Multi Team Collaboration How to apply on your teams?
- 29. Your Guide: Martin Heider Agile Trainer, Consultant & Coach Community Gardener & Initiator e.g. Play4Agile, Agile Coach Camp, Coach Reflection Day, etc. based in Nuremberg, Germany Twitter: @martinheider Email: mh@infomar.de
- 30. Presentation design: Aneta Radon Illustration www.anetaradon.com