agile creativity games
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AGILE CREATIVI
TY GAMES
Hello!I am Mariya Breyter
I am here because I think that play is the essence of innovation.
You can find me at:@mbreyter
What to expect
✖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!
“Innovation Introduction”
Warm Up Innovation Games you can take with you anywhere!
1.Warm Up
Games
15 min
The goal of the game is to help you to know your team members through
creativity
Game 1.Express Yourself Through Image
Meet Your NeighborsTopic: What is “Creativity” for you?
5 minutes
Game 1.Express Yourself Through Image
Meet Your NeighborsTopic: What is “Creativity” for you?
5 minutes
Share with Your Neighbors
Game 1.Express Yourself Through Image
Meet Your NeighborsTopic: What is “Creativity” for you?
2 minutes
Nominate Your Scrum Master
“Bust the Mold”
Warm Up Innovation Game by Rob Cordova you can take with you anywhere!
The goal of the game is to create safe space for innovation
Game 2.“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 topicIdentify static parameters
Challenge the Status QuoTopic: What do you think when you
here “A Restaurant”?
15 minutes
Take the top four and challenge them as a team
Game 2.“Bust the Mold” designed by Rob Cordova
The Agile Game
Reveal your Agile Creativity!
2.The Agile
Creativity Game
60 min
The goal of the game is to encourage innovative thinking in complex and unexpected situations on an Agile team or in an Agile organization
Step 1.Create Your
StoryAgile Crowdsourcing
15 min
WriteOn the top of the paper, write your answer to the question, based on an imaginary situation in the Agile world.
CREATING A STORYFold and PassFold the top of the paper so no one can see what you just wrote and pass the paper to the person on your right.
Questions (1 of 2)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
Questions (2 of 2)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
SAVE THE DAY!Let’s solve the Agile puzzle
Step 2.UNFOLD AND
SHAREAgile Sharing
10 min
SHARING with your Collaborators
Unfold the paper and read the story that you unfolded
Step 3.Brainstorming
Agile Storytelling
10 min
Agile Storytelling
✖ Select the most meaningful (or meaningless) story
✖ Briefly describe what actually happened (“translate”) and imagine what could have caused it
✖ Write down the summary
Step 4.Resolving
Agile Solutioning
10 min
Agile Resolultion
✖ Discuss and provide practical advice on how to resolve this situation
✖ Share with other teams
Step 6.Retrospection
New Agile Game
15 min
Souvenir Retro✖ 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
3.Other Agile creativity
games
15 min
Game 4.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…
Game 5.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!
Game 6.Agile Haiku
Create an Agile Haiku following the rule:
A poem with three linesSyllables: five-seven-fiveOn any topic
E.g. Product Owner is in chargeOf the product catalogAnd priorities
Game 7.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. SprintAgileRetroPointStory
What are the takeaways?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 instructionsGames 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?
Thanks!Poll: was it helpful? (0- not at all, 5 –fully agree)
You can find me at:@mbreyter
Poll: was it fun? (0- not at all, 5 –fully agree)
“Fist of Five”WU