Agile creativity games
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- 2. Hello! I am Mariya Breyter I am here because I think that play is the essence of innovation. You can find me at: @mbreyter www.agileleantransformation.com maria_breiter@yahoo.com
- 3. Whattoexpect ✖We will start with a warm up exercise ✖We will play the Agile Creativity Game ✖We will game-retrospect on it ✖If time permits, we will share 5 more ideas for Agile Creativity Games ✖You will have fun! You will leave this session with a few creative ideas to take to your companies/ clients/friends right away!
- 4. “InnovationIntroduction” Warm Up Innovation Games you can take with you anywhere!
- 6. The goal of the game is to help you to know your team members through creativity
- 7. Game1. Express Yourself Through Image Meet Your Neighbors Topic: What is “Creativity” for you? 5 minutes
- 8. Game1. Express Yourself Through Image Meet Your Neighbors Topic: What is “Creativity” for you? 5 minutes Share with Your Neighbors
- 9. Game1. Express Yourself Through Image Meet Your Neighbors Topic: What is “Creativity” for you? 2 minutes Nominate Your Scrum Master
- 10. “BusttheMold” Warm Up Innovation Game by Rob Cordova you can take with you anywhere!
- 11. The goal of the game is to create safe space for innovation
- 12. Game2. “Bust the Mold” designed by Rob Cordova Topic: What do you think when you hear “A Restaurant”? 15 minutes Challenge the Status Quo Identify a topic Identify static parameters
- 13. Challenge the Status Quo Topic: What do you think when you here “A Restaurant”? 15 minutes Take the top four and challenge them as a team Game2. “Bust the Mold” designed by Rob Cordova
- 14. TheAgileGame Reveal your Agile Creativity!
- 15. 2. The Agile Creativity Game 60 min
- 16. The goal of the game is to encourage innovative thinking in complex and unexpected situations on an Agile team or in an Agile organization
- 18. Write On the top of the paper, write your answer to the question, based on an imaginary situation in the Agile world. CREATINGASTORY Fold and Pass Fold the top of the paper so no one can see what you just wrote and pass the paper to the person on your right.
- 19. Questions(1of2) 2. Who? Examples: ✖ Scrum Master ✖ Agile Coach ✖ Consultant 3. With Whom? Examples: ✖ With a customer ✖ With an angry customer 1. When? Examples: ✖ During the last day of the sprint ✖ During the backlog grooming session
- 20. Questions(2of2) 4. What did they do? (period at the end) Examples: ✖ Planned the next sprint ✖ Prioritized the backlog ✖ Resigned 6. How do they feel? (They feel…) Examples: ✖ Helpless ✖ Horrible 5. What happened then? (Then, they) Examples: ✖ Fired the Scrum Master ✖ Hired Consultants ✖ Switched back to waterfall
- 21. SAVETHEDAY! Let’s solve the Agile puzzle
- 23. SHARINGwithyourCollaborators Unfold the paper and read the story that you unfolded
- 25. AgileStorytelling ✖ Select the most meaningful (or meaningless) story ✖ Briefly describe what actually happened (“translate”) and imagine what could have caused it ✖ Write down the summary
- 27. AgileResolultion ✖ Discuss and provide practical advice on how to resolve this situation ✖ Share with other teams
- 29. SouvenirRetro ✖ Take a large index card and write your name on one side. Pass it to the person on the right ✖ Pass your cards to the person on the right simultaneously ✖ Write your feedback for the person whose name is on the card and pass to your neighbor on the right until your card makes a full circle ✖ Once you get your card, read the feedback and thank your friends
- 31. Game4. Agile Alphabet Improv Complicate the previous game by requiring every team member to take turns to start their next sentence with the next letter of the alphabet. E.g. Agile transformation is hard. - But Scrum Master does not give up. - Can’t wait until we complete Release Planning. - Don’t you think it will give us the visibility we need? - Each time we do Release Planning, we deviate from it. - Frequently, we do not have to complete Release Planning to establish visibility…
- 32. Game5. Agile Catalog Write Agile Role Descriptions in the style of a retail catalog. E.g. No Impediment Stays Unresolved with the Scrum Master. A fearless and supportive Servant Leader fears no challenge. Whether it is a missing Product Owner or requests for the team to take more work during a sprint, the Scrum Master is always there to protect the team from interference and empower them to find solutions. Just stop by the Sprint Review session and observe how the Scrum Master facilitates Agile ceremonies leaving no one behind!
- 33. Game6. Agile Haiku Create an Agile Haiku following the rule: A poem with three lines Syllables: five-seven-five On any topic E.g. Product Owner is in charge Of the product catalog And priorities
- 34. Game7. Agile Word Building Create Agile words and phrases from the letters in team members’ first and last names. The team that gets most, wins. Team: Peter, Helen, Anthony, George, Lila, Sid E.g. Sprint Agile Retro Point Story
- 35. Whatarethetakeaways? Purpose The purpose of creative play is to establish new way of looking at old things Risk Creative games reduce risk because they help envision all possible cases and identify associated risks Creativity Creativity unleashes potential and promotes motivation Clear instructions Games allow to maintain clear and close interactions with the team and ensure team members are on the same page Fun Games allow to enjoy creativity and collaboration! Play! Games are global and allow people to understand each other and create meaningful outcomes Yours?
- 36. Thanks! Poll: was it helpful? (0- not at all, 5 –fully agree) You can find me at: @mbreyter www.agileleantransformation.com Maria_Breiter@yahoo.com Poll: was it fun? (0- not at all, 5 –fully agree) “FistofFive” WU
Editor's Notes
- Serious play is not an oxymoron; it is the essence of innovation. —Michael Schrage Michael Schrage is a Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Business at MIT Sloan School of Management. Michael Schrage is one of the world’s most innovative thought leaders on innovation. A sought-after consultant on business innovation, he is the author of " Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate" and "What Do You Want Your Customers to Become?
- Pictures Speak Louder than Words http://ddunleavy.typepad.com/the_big_picture/2009/07/why-pictures-speak-louder-than-words.html a picture is worth a thousand words • Time and tide wait for no man: In this fast-moving world, when you have a message to convey, people hardly have time to sit down and read a paragraph or more. But if you’re able to capture the essence of what you want to say with one photograph, you know you’ve captured your target audience. Even in newspapers and magazines, people look to pictures to tell the story if they don’t have time to read the entire article. • One picture says it all: Visuals are always more effective than the written word. A picture is more colorful than a group of words, literally and figuratively. People tend to stop and look at compelling visuals rather than sit down to read (what they consider) boring words. It’s true that our attention is easily captured by a picture rather than a group of words. • Easy on the eye, easy on the brain: Pictures facilitate the learning process, especially when it comes to children and others who are mentally impaired. They are easier to remember and associate with facts, which is why people prefer them to plain old words. • Tugged heartstrings evoke more emotions: Photographs are able to capture emotions that words cannot, no matter how cleverly they’re used. In a warzone, a crying child in the midst of all the rubble drives home the pointlessness of it all much more than the harshest of write-ups. The picture of a little boy smiling is enough to melt even the hardest of hearts.
- Pictures Speak Louder than Words http://ddunleavy.typepad.com/the_big_picture/2009/07/why-pictures-speak-louder-than-words.html a picture is worth a thousand words • Time and tide wait for no man: In this fast-moving world, when you have a message to convey, people hardly have time to sit down and read a paragraph or more. But if you’re able to capture the essence of what you want to say with one photograph, you know you’ve captured your target audience. Even in newspapers and magazines, people look to pictures to tell the story if they don’t have time to read the entire article. • One picture says it all: Visuals are always more effective than the written word. A picture is more colorful than a group of words, literally and figuratively. People tend to stop and look at compelling visuals rather than sit down to read (what they consider) boring words. It’s true that our attention is easily captured by a picture rather than a group of words. • Easy on the eye, easy on the brain: Pictures facilitate the learning process, especially when it comes to children and others who are mentally impaired. They are easier to remember and associate with facts, which is why people prefer them to plain old words. • Tugged heartstrings evoke more emotions: Photographs are able to capture emotions that words cannot, no matter how cleverly they’re used. In a warzone, a crying child in the midst of all the rubble drives home the pointlessness of it all much more than the harshest of write-ups. The picture of a little boy smiling is enough to melt even the hardest of hearts.
- Pictures Speak Louder than Words http://ddunleavy.typepad.com/the_big_picture/2009/07/why-pictures-speak-louder-than-words.html a picture is worth a thousand words • Time and tide wait for no man: In this fast-moving world, when you have a message to convey, people hardly have time to sit down and read a paragraph or more. But if you’re able to capture the essence of what you want to say with one photograph, you know you’ve captured your target audience. Even in newspapers and magazines, people look to pictures to tell the story if they don’t have time to read the entire article. • One picture says it all: Visuals are always more effective than the written word. A picture is more colorful than a group of words, literally and figuratively. People tend to stop and look at compelling visuals rather than sit down to read (what they consider) boring words. It’s true that our attention is easily captured by a picture rather than a group of words. • Easy on the eye, easy on the brain: Pictures facilitate the learning process, especially when it comes to children and others who are mentally impaired. They are easier to remember and associate with facts, which is why people prefer them to plain old words. • Tugged heartstrings evoke more emotions: Photographs are able to capture emotions that words cannot, no matter how cleverly they’re used. In a warzone, a crying child in the midst of all the rubble drives home the pointlessness of it all much more than the harshest of write-ups. The picture of a little boy smiling is enough to melt even the hardest of hearts.
- "When you want the results you never had, you have to do something you've never done." (Thomas Jefferson) This is exactly what we do in this game: first, we co-create an unusual and unexpected environment using a crowd-sourcing technique, and then, we frame and resolve the challenges of this environment by coming up with unexpected and innovative solutions to the issues presented.
- Head of Finance team: A – A-team of your employees, that is G – Gung-Ho on delivering, most I – Intelligently & Diligently, your L – Long term objectives, the most E – Efficient way My response: Can't believe our presentation inspired Outside of IT world Ownership of Agile thought leadership and such a great Learning Experience.
- We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw