Short scrum games the efficient way to produce team cohesion

Short Scrum games The Efficient Way To Produce Team Cohesion Danny (Danko) Kovatch [email_address]

Who am I " I am nobody, nobody’s perfect, therefore, I am perfect! " Founder of AgileSparks Head of the Israeli User group 10 years of SW experience (Unix and Java not the other one) Father of four (just lately)

Warning...! Run for your life or Stay and be ready for action... Prerequisite: sense of humor! This is not only an interactive session It is an exercise session Marc Löffler “ How to defend against the 10 things that drive a ScrumMaster crazy ” Vasco Duarte “ From an idea to a Vision you can implement ” Pavel Gabriel “ Successful software product development without testers ”

Why Games? Take 5 minutes to play it... (“Yes and, Yes but” game)

Yes and, yes but
Split into pairs
One needs to convince the other that using Agile Games is good
Start your answers with “ Yes and ”
Change roles
Start your answers with “ Yes, but ”
Duration: 5 minutes
Pair Programming? Now they started to eat fruits during working hours?!?!

6 hats brainstorming
Developed by Edward De Bono
Each person in the table chooses a hat
Make sure you have all the hats
Start debating about the following ideas:
Implementing Agile without an outsider trainer
or
Bungee Jumping for scrum masters in Kyev as an incentive
Duration: 10 minutes

More efficient! Fun! Real experience! Encourage people to interact and communicate. Why Games? Learning in a snap Break from the usual routine. Motivating and challenging

The party Go around the room introduce yourself and explain how do you know Mr. Agile, what are the rumors about him Variations: spin dating (two circles, one inside the other, each one has one minute, one circle is rounding the other is not) Duration: 10 minutes

Goodbye letter / admire letter Write a goodbye letter from your current working methodology Or Write an admire letter to Agile Duration: 10 minutes (in large companies: 2 days...:-) Dear Agile

Self empowerment
Split into pairs
One is the boss and one is the employee
Within the next 60 seconds the BOSS needs to walk the EMPLOYEE as many steps as s/he can using only the words: “Forward”, “Backword”, “Left” and “Right”
Exchange roles
Same requirement but the team is fully self empowered

Pushing 40
As a team count till 40 as fast as you can
No specific order is allowed
Only one team member says a number
Start from the beginning if you fail
Variation: Raise the fingers for each number

Remember the future
Tell the story of the sprint as if it just ended (Use past tense!)
Practice: Tell the story of the conference as if it already ended
Great for retrospectives!
Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind

Agile as a TLA Either for the twelve principles or 8 values, write for each one, a description of Three Letter Acronym Duration: 15 minutes

Attack-defender
Form a circle
Pick two people: One is the attacker and one is the defender
Pick two people: One is the attacker and one is your defender
Duration: 2 minutes

Roles picturegram
Draw an average Scrum master, team member, product owner and manager

Team vs. individual
F orm a circle
Choose one person from the other side
Round I: Exchange places with him
Round II: Now think as a group...
Duration: 2 minutes

What else?
Pass the penny
Ball point game
The marshmallow and the spaghetti
You are in control (or not)
The bottleneck game
Business value game
Estimation games
“ You interrupt, I quack”
The story of sprint – The user story POV
Many many more...

Summary
Only cohesive team can be hyper productive team
Fun is a prerequisite to creativity
Overtime is not the 9 th hour but is the time in which you feel you do not want to work anymore

Thanks! "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.“ -- Confucius

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