The document describes how to play an Agile game in teams. Each team has a backlog of story cards that must progress from backlog to done. Team members take turns working on stories by rolling dice, with each roll of 1 representing a unit of work. The game involves iterations where teams work through stories, have retrospectives, and implement additional mechanics like swarming, defects, work in progress limits, and buffers.

1. Agile 1’s Game

2. We work in teams, in a
pipeline

3. Each team has a
‘Backlog’ of story cards

4. The aim is to get story
cards from
‘Backlog’ to ‘Done’

5. Each story card has a
size

6. Each story has to be
worked on by every
team member in turn

7. You can only work on a
story that is in front of
you

8. Each team member has
six dice

9. Every day we all throw
all our dice TOGETHER

10. Every ‘1’ you throw is
one unit of work done

11. Record the amount of
work done on the
story in front of you

12. When you have finished
a story, pass it to the
next team member

13. Each story takes the same
amount of work from
every team member

14. Questions?

15. Form into teams -
choose a name

16. Create your pipeline

17. Create a backlog of 5
stories

18. Questions?

19. Iteration 1

20. Retrospective

21. Backlog
You can use a unit of work to create a new
story for the backlog:

22. Iteration 2

23. Retrospective

24. Story Splitting
You can use a unit of work to split any story:

25. Iteration 3

26. Retrospective

27. Swarming
Before your team rolls, you can decide to
lend some of your dice to another team
member
For each die that you lend, you must put
another die aside:
Lend Put aside Roll
1 1 4
2 2 2
3 3 0

28. Iteration 4

29. Retrospective

30. Defects
After each ‘day’, roll 2 dice for each card that
is still ‘in progress’
Total Outcome
10 Lose all work done
11
Lose all work done AND move card
back one
12 Lose all work done AND move card
to backlog

31. Iteration 5

32. Retrospective

33. WIP
Implement a work in progress limit of 2.
So, no story can move to the next stage in
the pipeline if there is a story being worked
on in that stage.

34. Iteration 6

35. Retrospective

36. WIP and Buffers
Vary the WIP limit.
Create buffers.

37. Iteration 7

38. Retrospective