This free e-book presents a stepwise approach to perform a full Scrum Simulation With Minecraft. An outstanding learning activity for teaching Scrum. It is free to use and adapt, licensed under Creative Commons. Timing: 8 hours (full day), divided in: Minecraft Bootcamp – 2 hours; Pre-Game – 1 hour; Game – 4 hours; Post-Game – 1 hour; Overview: The products of my MSc dissertation at…
ScrumCardGame – simple and realistic Scrum simulation
SCRUM CARD GAME is the simple game, which lets players experience work in Scrum sprints and brings to discussion many questions and topics that happen in real life while working in a Scrum team. This experience facilitates learning and makes participants prepared to the real use of Scrum.
Scrum Values & Roles Card Game
Timing: 20-35 minutes Overview:This gamified learning activity is the first product from my MSc dissertation at the University of Liverpool. It is a card game to teach Scrum values and roles. There are four categories of cards: roles, responsibilities, values, behaviors. The objective of the game is to distribute the responsibilities cards below the roles cards and distribute the behaviors cards below the values cards.…
Iterative Incremental Big Bang
Timing: 30-60 minutes expected running time (including prep and debrief) Overview: Iterative, Incremental, Big Bang is a workshop game to encourage people to think about alternative approaches for tackling projects. However, rather than discuss boring work-like scenarios, it asks players to decide on an approach for everyday scenarios like converting a loft, cooking Sunday lunch or building a nuclear submarine! Materials: Iterative Incremental Big Bang cards (available on Amazon) A…
This Sprint Future-O-Spective with Santa Claus!
Here’s the festive season again and Santa Claus is coming to town. We need to take care of the balloons during the party so they shouldn’t look awful (deflated). What may be the impediments which need to be taken care? During freezing weather, balloons shrink up terribly Balloons should be retained for longer period of time Safeguard balloons from our pet parrot with curved beak…