Recently I had the fortune to be asked to co facilitate at a session for Yahoo! on a market research project that was being produced by The Innovation Games(R) Company.
One of the great things I noticed straight away is that people were excited and intrigued about playing games, not that they really knew yet, what the games were or what it would be like.
Offsites are dead.
Long live volunteer work.
Yesterday rather than spend the day in a gray hotel room, we spent the day painting, lifting, digging, dragging, and delivering value.
We were working at the Battersea adventure playground, we were there to paint the bouncy castle enclosure, sort out the timber yard, and rip up the flooring on a huge castle play area, that over the years had become unsafe and was preventing it from being used by the kids.
We split up into 3 teams, one for each area, I was working with Team B, in the timber yard.
Why was this the perfect agile project :
I popped into John Stevenson “How to build a kanban board” session at skills matter last week. It was a packed session with good participation, it would have been great if it was a longer session.
My key takeaways were,
I wanted to capture the steps that John went through in the class, so this is my take in what John covered and his facilitation approach.
A while back I created a scrum cheat sheet, that has been quite useful. I include it here for you to use, update how you need it. Take a look at the PDF version Scrum cheat sheet (12) , if you want the raw Visio file, do get in touch and I will email it to you..
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At the agile2010 conference, I had the luck to attend the Lyssa Adkins talk on Silent Coaching. There is not much written about it yet, (most Google results are regarding a ice skating teaching tool), however I feel that is all about to change.
The concept is that our voice gets the way of the true value within, it especially prevents introverts from sharing on a level playing field with extroverts, and as a coach its our job to ensure each and every team member gets the opportunity to give their great ideas to the group.
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One of my favorite talks at apt he agile2010 conference was Henriks talk in scrum v kanban his content and presentation style was rocking. Continue Reading
All too often courses are run to a tight predefined schedule, and while useful are not always relevant, this was different.
I attended Luke Hohmann’s Innovation games workshop on the Saturday and Sunday prior to the Agile2010 conference in Orlando, the 2 day course was great and unique in that there was only 4 of us in attendance due to people pulling out at the last minute.
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