Abstract: "Okay team, let's do some Scrum, I will count to three and then you will collaborate and be self organized! One....two..." Asking a team to be self-organised can be confusing and difficult. It's not natural, it's not easy and if you have ever lived in a command-and-control environment, it is certainly a paradigm change. What if we could teach and practice ‘Self-Organisation’ playing one game that implies communication, movement...and chairs? Let's have fun together discovering the importance of Trust in an Agile team. "...Three !"

1. Non Musical Chairs, an Agile game to
introduce and practice self-organization
@BrunoSbille

2. Raise you hand…

3. Ok, guys…
You need to be self-organized!

4. The Facilitators Team!
@AgileSquirrel @evanderkoogh

5. Objectives:
1. Work as a self-organised team
2. Prevent the facilitator to sit on the
empty chair for 60 seconds
3. Loop: Try then debrief
Rules:
1. You cannot touch the facilitator
2. Once you stand-up, you have to
sit on another chair
3. You cannot move the chairs
4. As many attempts as you want
Rules of the game

6. Learnings of the game
1. Retrospective
2. Global view of the project
3. Communication
4. Simplest solution
5. Inspect and adapt (one idea ->
Test it !)
6. It’s about trust

7. Team #Smart

8. Team #Sexy

9. Links
• Source:
http://tastycupcakes.org/2011/04/non-musical-chairs/
• Find many Agile Games on:
http://tastycupcakes.org/category/games/
• #AgileGames Google Group: agilegames@googlegroups.com
• Agiles Games Conferences:
• http://agilegames2014.com/
• http://play4agile.wordpress.com/

10. About me
Agile Trainer (CST) and Coach
Blog: http://brunosbille.com
Twitter: @BrunoSbille

11. Thank you all!

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