Developing your Agile skills through social Games
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The document discusses the integration of social games to enhance agile skills in the workplace, outlining the benefits of playing games to develop core scrum values such as commitment and courage. It includes specific game examples, rules, and reflections on their impact on team dynamics and employee engagement. The authors advocate for incorporating gaming activities into work routines to foster collaboration, creativity, and interpersonal connections among employees.
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Developing your Agile skills through social Games
- 1. Developing your Agile skills through social Games
- 2. Eric Boivin ● Lead Developer since 2006 and ÉTS teacher ● Game Master sharing his passion in conferences and other public speaking events
- 3. Ludo Bruyere ● Scrum Mastering after managing projects for 20 years ● Coaching employees through the organization Agile transformation ● Learning beyond Agile certifications (PSM I/II and PMI-ACP)
- 4. Agenda Let’splayagame Living ScrumValues Ourstory Picking upgames Let’splayagain Gamingbenefits
- 5. Can we use games to fast-trackthe development of Agile core values?
- 6. There is a gamer in each of us
- 7. We learn life skills as kids through games
- 9. Spyfall Summary Onespy tries to guess team location without revealing his true identity.
- 10. SPY: Has to guess the other players location All but 1 player: Get the same location card Ex. Amusement Park
- 11. Let's play! Rules You are the spy! In the following slide, find the location where players are, based on their questions and answers
- 12. 1. You are the spy. Guess the location Do you feel safe here? Should you bring your kids here? What shouldn’t you forget when leaving here? Yes Your bags No!!
- 13. 2. You are not thespy. Guess who is most likelythespy We are here Do you feel safe here? Yes Should you bring your kids here? No!! What shouldn’t you forget when leaving here? Your bags 1 2 2 3 3 4
- 14. 3. Find questions about a location without revealing too much Obvious to the players Not so obvious to the spy Share with your neighbors Pick the best question
- 15. 4. Lure thespy Find a question that could apply to both a Nightclub and the Airplane
- 16. Whatdo we likeabout Spyfall? • Requires people to take risks • Difficult to ask the best questions • Very quick, allowing immediate retrospective on what went well or not
- 18. According to the Scrum Guide... When the values of commitment, courage, focus, openness andrespect are embodied and lived by the Scrum Team, the Scrum pillarsof transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life.
- 19. The Scrum Team members learn andexplore those values as they work withScrum events, roles and artifacts.
- 20. Scrum Pillars
- 21. Transparency - expose yourself whenforced to play a role
- 22. Inspection - post mortem aftereach game discussing what wentwellor did not
- 23. Adaptation - from inspection and introspection you improve your game
- 24. Scrum Values
- 25. Courage - social, take risks, potentiallylose
- 26. Respect - follow rules, respect other players
- 27. Openness - open discussion before havingto make a choice or vote to collaborate on best option
- 28. Focus - driven to play the game
- 29. Commitment -mustparticipate and play untilgame is completed
- 30. Considerations
- 31. While there is value in having Scrum objectives when gaming, we value spontaneous gaming more. No official objectives. Just let people having fun.
- 32. Our Story
- 33. As often,it allstarted at thewater-cooler...
- 34. Éric socialized the idea with Ludo.
- 35. As a manager,Ludo feltuneasy about playing at work.
- 36. As a Scrum Master, Ludo embrace thelunch & play experiment.
- 37. Éric recruited a few like-mindedpeers to getthe trialstarted.
- 38. Within twoweeks, theroutine was established, coworkers were hooked,and management was onboarded.
- 39. At theend, thisexperimentwas so successful thatpeople were avoiding telecommutingto play at our lunchgame.
- 40. Picking upgames
- 41. Foster a work environmentwhere people want to play together.
- 42. Work constraints Pilot each game ● Time boxedto 45 minutes ● Simple setup ● Simple to learn ● Simpletoplay ● Scale up to large groups
- 43. Most board games are designed for more intimate,laid- back settings thana workplace. Variety is key.
- 44. ● Cooperative and competitive games ● Team andindividual games ● Social and serious games ● Strategic and tactical games Types of games
- 45. Establish game library Bring games from home Raise funding at the office Put games in easy to reach location
- 46. Successful gamingroutines Lunch break 1. Daily vote on Slack at 11 to select lunch games 2. Create teams based on votes/preferences/availability 3. Lunch and play
- 47. Gateway games Games with simple rules Easy to teach Attract newplayers into boardgaming
- 48. Our top picks
- 49. Resistance: Avalon Summary Players are secretly either trying to make quests succeed or sabotage them
- 50. Movie time!
- 51. What do we like about Resistance: Avalon Play various roles Read people intentions Good strategy and analysis
- 52. Card games Summary Traditionalandhouse-rulescardgames: Tarot Cribbage Skull Magic thegathering Mille bornes
- 53. What do we like about Card games? Well-knowngames Relaxing Encouragesreplay Improves memory
- 54. Telestrations Summary Playersmakeatelephonegame,alternating between drawingandwriting whattheysee
- 55. Telestrations Whydowelove it? Creativity Createsstories Nostrategy,just simple fun
- 56. Codenames Summary 2 teamscompetetoguesswordssuggested by their teamcaptains… … while avoidingthe wordsofthe otherteam.
- 57. Team captain: Find a word that links unrelated words together Team: Tries to guess the words the leader has in mind
- 58. Let's play again Rules In the following slide, find one word that can related to as many words as possible Example: Cat + Police Burglar
- 60. Share your best word with your neighbors
- 61. Now, let’s try again, but by avoiding some words
- 62. Best answers?
- 63. Createpeer to peer connection Improveverbal interaction andvocabulary Risk taking What do we like about Codenames?
- 67. Renewenergy levels for afternoonshift
- 68. Increase presence at the office
- 69. But you may be a victim of your own success….
- 74. Learn to read people intentions
- 75. Playroles
- 76. Problem solving
- 77. Buildtrust
- 78. Buildconfidence
- 79. Reduce fear of failure
- 81. Develop your Agile Team skills
- 82. Win or lose as a team
- 83. Break professional barriers betweencoworkers and management
- 84. Improve ways to interact with your peers
- 85. Improve communicationsintra and inter teams
- 87. Inspect whatworks and doesn't, failfast without consequences
- 88. In a nutshell… Gamingis a very powerful tool to develop our Agile core values
- 89. Next steps
- 90. Immediately start organizing gamingopportunities at your workplace!
- 91. Thankyou!
- 92. Credits ● Boardgaming at your workplace http://info.thinkfun.com/stem-education/the-benefits-of-games-in-the-workplace http://altemagames.com/getting-your-workplace-to-embrace-board-games/ ● Games suggestions https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1911672/top-150-best-gateway-games-results ● Gamification in Agile http://www.gamification.co/2014/07/08/4-gamified-solutions-for-agile-scrum-training/ https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2014/august/agile-gamification ● Scrum Alliance https://www.scrumalliance.org/ScrumRedesignDEVSite/media/ScrumAllianceMedia/Global %20Scrum%20Gatherings/2017%20San%20Diego/Presentations/BodeMichael_Our-favorite- agile-games.pdf ● Scrum Guides https://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html Pictures courtesy of Geneviève Plantin and boardgamegeek.com
- 93. Great games for the office ● Codenames ● NoThanks ● Decrypto ● SkullsandRoses ● Mascarade ● Ricochetsrobot ● Timeline ● Pandemic ● Telestration ● Hanabi ● Resistance ● Avalon ● SpyFall ● Deception:murder in Hong-Kong ● Cashandguns ● One-nightwerewolf ● Bang ● Magical Athlete ● Citadels
- 94. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- #2: ERIC
- #3: ERIC
- #4: LUDO
- #5: LUDO
- #6: By show of hands, who play games at work?
- #7: ERIC
- #12: Spy questions 1st easy 2nd no clue Present game rules. Gaming in progress. Lessons learned.
- #13: Spy questions 1st easy 2nd no clue Present game rules. Gaming in progress. Lessons learned.
- #14: Spy questions 1st easy 2nd no clue Present game rules. Gaming in progress. Lessons learned.
- #15: Spy questions 1st easy 2nd no clue Present game rules. Gaming in progress. Lessons learned.
- #16: Spy questions 1st easy 2nd no clue Present game rules. Gaming in progress. Lessons learned.
- #17: LUDO Why do we love it Easy to learn but difficult to master Risk taking
- #19: The Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life and build trust for everyone
- #21: Game Examples!!!
- #32: No official objectives vs. gaming to improve performance Not Scrumble or other games teaching Scrum No disguised teaching purpose No gamification Our gaming manifesto Keep gaming fun and attractive Avoid turning gaming into training Gaming should not be contrived
- #33: ERIC AND LUDO ALTERNATE
- #41: ERIC
- #43: ERIC
- #44: (Pandemic, Cash and guns, Secret Hitler)
- #47: Recette à améliorer pour être plus inclusive et pour éviter que les mêmes jeux soient utilisés quotidiennement
- #48: ERIC No player elimination Short games Wide range of games for all tastes, group size
- #55: LUDO
- #57: ERIC
- #59: SELECT GAME 2 codenames Present game rules. Gaming in progress. Lessons learned : one skill or benefit exposed by this game : openness, discussion, rules
- #65: ERIC RELATES TO GAMES AND LUDO RELATES TO AGILE
- #70: Too many players Star games Requires a Game Master to change games
- #94: Pick 3 examples to illustrate how they fit constraints.