Help people visualise on how global and local problems can be interconnected -or woven together-, its impact, amplitude and magnification through different departments and how a shared goal can be compromised. The game also help participants to have a unify point of view, independently from their range in the hierarchy.
Mind Reading
This game is for exploring team members’ responsibility to ask questions to find out the criteria for success, and to understand the importance of close collaboration with the customer/Product Owner to the success of a project.
99 Ballons de test
English version available here : http://tjr.a54.mywebsitetransfer.com/2009/06/99-test-balloons/. This post only contains french version. Durée : 30 min Matériel pour chaque équipe : 20-30 ballons par équipe du papier des règles des ciseaux des marqueurs Instructions : Commencez par montrer aux équipes un ballon que vous souhaitez créer (ou dessinez-en un). Le ballon a un visage constitué de deux yeux ronds, un nez triangulaire, et d’une bouche en demi-cercle. Sans…
Copycats
As somebody in the team described it, “it’s like Chinese whispers, but with pictures”. The inspiration for this game came from a children’s TV game show called copycats. Timing: A team of 5 people with two rounds and a intro and debrief for each round took 20 minutes in total. Materials: A team of 5+ people, if larger could be split into two teams. A…
Delight
This improv exercise originally comes from the work of Keith Johnstone. Geoff and I picked up the exercise from an improv workshop with Neil Mullarkey of the Comedy Store Players, in London. Timings: 5-10 mins Materials: 2 people (standing up) Instructions: The pair must tell a story about something imaginary they did together, but one of the pair can only interact with the story by…