The Scale Agile simulator is accessible on our site: https://scale.octigo.pl/ The Scale Agile simulator allows you to play a team of 2-5 people at once. It demonstrates the problems of sharing resources, bottlenecks, picking people up, prioritizing and responding to opportunities. The goal of the players is to deliver tasks of the highest value within a given number of sprints. In addition to individual effectiveness,…
CLUE: The Retro
This is a semi-self-paced retro designed to be done within 60-75 minutes. It uses the board from the boardgame Clue as a metaphor. This retro was designed for use on Mural or Miro after witnessing really uninspiring retros online that didn’t do any examination into underlying causations before deciding on actions. You start in the Hall to open the retro. Here you could do a…
Dogs Retro!
My second favorite Retro I invented…only second to Retro Catz! Instructions: Present the following categories to your Team to to see if any of them align with aspects of the Sprint just concluded.
Retro Cats!
My favorite Retrospective that I have invented to date. Backstory: I had a team that was obsessed with Cats (well…most of them…hence the need to create a follow-up Retro involving Dogs). While trolling for the best cat memes on the internet, I learned that some of my favorite cat pics resembled some of the most important basic human emotions. Try this fun Retro to see…
What you think is what you get (WYTIWYG)
A mindfulness exercise that helps us to take the stance of not-knowing and to recognize how quickly we let ourselves be guided by our first impression. With this bias we often miss the chance to explore alternatives and thus leave even much better solutions uncovered.