An Exercise in Flow: The Dice Game. List of Agile Team Exercises. 101 Ways All About Agile List of Agile Team Exercises by David Koontz, 27 March 2014 | The Agile Blogosphere This content is syndicated from Agile Complexification Inverter by David Koontz.
To view the original post in full, click here. 4 Gamified Solutions for Agile Scrum Training. Gamify Your Scrum Training and Build Team Synergy Agile is all about team alignment, mindset sharing and streamlined, self-assessed work to bring about the best value possible to all stakeholders.
This methodology is found in all kinds of Agile development, especially in the Scrum form. There are conventional teacher-centered processes to learn Scrum, but there are also hands-on opportunities to grasp this framework in a safe, game-like environment. Besides, what is a better way to build team dynamics than playing a game together? The Agile Games and Play4Agile conferences particularly support this by encouraging the creation of games and dynamics for practicing the methodology. Lego4Scrum. 3 Agile Exercises to Help Clients in the Discovery Process. In a typical product development scenario, a client comes to you with an RFP or a list of all of the things their web app or website must do.
Here are just a few of the must-have items from RFPs we’ve received recently: “It’s got to have drop downs!” “It’s got to work on an iPad.” “It needs video and social networking.” We’ve all heard (or said) these things at one time or another. What you should say here is, “I don’t know.” Agile to the Rescue I recently took Petri Heiramo’s CollabNet Scrum Master Certification class in an effort to better understand how Agile development methodologies can be applied to our work with clients.
I certainly didn’t learn everything there is to learn about Scrum (an alternative development approach that incorporates feedback into the creation process), and although I passed the exam, I don’t think I’d consider myself a Scrum master… yet. Exercise One: The Product Vision Statement For our first exercise, we’re going to write a product vision statement.
Teach Scrum through games - Scrum Simulation with LEGO. Training Exercise: Scrum Simulation. Agile Project Management with SCRUM - Training Material. Title Agile Project Management with SCRUM Author Bernard Szlachta, Prateek Shrivastava Subfooter Agile Project Management with SCRUM Bernard Szlachta, Prateek Shrivastava Published in 1970 by Winston W.
Waterfall Stages ⌘[edit] Waterfall Model Problems ⌘[edit] Market Dynamics/Changing RequirementsBlaming other people (Analysts blaming designers, designers developers, etc..)Lack of understanding business by lower ranksLong feedbackHit-by-a-spaceship effect (Abducted by aliens) "We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more. " Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. Learning Scrum Through Games. While this is the session I ran in 2011 it has been replaced by: Learning Scrum Through Games – Goldilocks Iterations II.
Last week at Agile Tour Toronto I had the privilege of working with my friend Paul Heidema to help introduce the basic concepts of Scrum in 60 minutes. This is a really interesting challenge, what’s the minimum amount you can teach people and still give them a taste of Scrum. In end we opted for about ~10 minutes of talking heads (spread throughout), ~30 minutes of simulation time and 15 minutes of debrief. We invited our teams to create Children’s Books of the Goldilocks story. Along with the basic Story participants were asked to offer advertising, public service announcements etc. Comments from participants: A number said it was surprising how well teams of complete strangers came together after two sprints.Several didn’t like the way I set them up for a mini “failure” by not playing the Product Owner role poorly and not communicating my needs. Agile Games And Exercises List – AgileSparks. Scrum Training Exercises. What are some good training exercises that can help people experience Agile planning, prioritization, burning down, reflecting, and so on?
"scrumnoob" writes: I am running a 60 minute session in a couple of weeks for some of the employees close to, but not part of my project (Scrum project). What I would like to do is have a 1 or 2 sprint cycle as part of the hour but am lacking the inspiration to think of some backlog items that could be used. The old "make a cup of tea" or "book a holiday" ideas are floating around, but I am wondering if anyone has tried anything that has worked. "David H" recommends a sixty-minute Scrum exercise that he says was part of the original Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) course material. Mark Levison recommends the Agile Games Google group as a good place to find ideas for Agile games. Sometimes a separate exercise is not necessary for effective learning, however.