On Thursday, 2/8, MARISSA FOGAL facilitated SCRUM MYTHBUSTERS – an activity from The Liberators. Using Mentimeter, Marissa set up a myth/fact quiz for participants to test their Scrum knowledge. We flipped through a series of 9 statements about Scrum, and players… Read more
Category: Meetup Recaps
Agile Decision Games
NICK YINGLING was our guest for our November 9th AGTC Meetup, sharing AGILE DECISION GAMES. Agile Decision Games are a type of experiential learning activity that uses storytelling and role-playing to help teams make better decisions. They are designed to… Read more
The Multitasking Name Game
October 12th’s AGTC meetup featured Marissa Fogal facilitating The Multitasking Name Game. Henrik Kniberg, an Agile coach (currently at Crisp), does a fantastic job with creating visualizations and simulations to help teams discover and experience potential pain points in their… Read more
Battleships
At the AGTC Meetup on Thursday, 9/14, Tim Nolan and Marissa Fogal facilitated an online version of Battleships. Battleships is a short and simple game with valuable takeaways. Through game play, players discovered the value of immediate feedback and the potential… Read more
Codenames – Virtual
At the AGTC meetup on Thursday, 5/11, Marissa Fogal facilitated an online version of Codenames. Participants were split into two teams (red or blue) with one person on each team being the ‘spy master’ and other team members participating as… Read more
Gartic Phone
David Klaus was our facilitator for Gartic Phone Gartic Phone is a game that takes the game of “telephone”, where you pass on information second hand and see how it changes over time, and adds drawing into the mix! The game is… Read more
User Manual to Me
NIELS GOTT was our facilitator for USER MANUAL TO ME. This activity isn’t so much a ‘game’ as we usually like to do but it is a tool that can be very useful for a team to better understand each… Read more
Paper Folding
On Thursday, 2/9, MARISSA FOGAL facilitated a PAPER FOLDING ACTIVITY with the group. This activity is an adaptation of Collaborative Origami. Marissa instructed participants to grab sheets of paper of any size and any types (ie, notebook paper, junk paper,… Read more
The Red Bead Experiment
This month, TERRI ERICKSON and RICK BERNETT facilitated THE RED BEAD EXPERIMENT – a simulation created by Edwards Deming. Terri and Rick created a virtual version of the experiment using Excel, which they were able to share with us. The… Read more
Scrumchkin
CHRIS DILLER brought a card game (gone virtual!) that he first saw at the Global Scrum Gathering in Austin, TX in 2019 – SCRUMCHKIN, created by Mario Melo. Scrumchkin is “a card game created to improve Scrum training and coaching… Read more