Debunking Multitasking with Cards

Each team (or organization), has 4 items (stories or projects) to complete. We will simulate these by placing suits of cards in order. Materials For every 5 people, you’ll need a deck of cards and a stopwatch that provides a means of capturing lap time (often now on telephones as an app). A flip chart and markers to record times for each round would be…

Satisfaction foot

Have you ever thought on how to quickly identify all problems related to a specific thing – project, iniciative, sprint? Or how to rank them and engage everyone, no matter whether you have group of 5 or 50 people? Sounds like a tough task, doesn’t it? I faced the exact same challenge, and in order to deal with it I designed Satisfaction foot game that helps a…

Kitchen PrioritizationKitchen Prioritization

The goal of this game is to understand how important it is to have choice criterias during prioritization and make them explicit. This game will talk about relative prioritization, implicit criterias, personal criterias, implicit expectations Le but de ce jeu est de démontrer à quel point il est important d’avoir des critères de choix durant une phase de priorisation et de les rendre explicites. Ce…

Judgement Juggler

** Updated  with links to better quality DoD images ** Name: Judgement Juggler.  Summary: An agility learning ball game, built on The Penny Game, that introduces estimates based on defects and dependencies to more closely simulate software development in an enterprise environment. Learning Points: Estimate taking into consideration defects and dependencies (both internal and external). Additional learning of work in progress limits, intra- and inter-…

“Hitting the Target” — Business Value in Mission-Focused Organizations

How should organizations prioritize work in the face of conflicting goals and metrics? Help more people? Minimize delays? Prosecute more crimes? Lower costs? In this game participants will experience a dice-based simulation that has been created to explore these questions by examining the impact of these decisions on the performance of organizations in changing environments.