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Tasty Cupcakes
Are you ready for some Tasty Cupcakes?
By 'Tasty Cupcakes', we of course mean experiential learning games that accelerate the adoption and understanding of Agile principles in a fun and interactive way.
Below are games (in the form of recipe cards) that we have found useful in learning settings. If you have used or seen other effective and fun learning exercises like these, please contact us and we'll happily add them.
Agile 2008
We had a great time at Agile 2008! For all our participants in the Agile Playground, the games are now available. - Don McGreal and Mike McCullough.
Games
Physical - Learn by doing
- Telephone Game : Show how noisy communication can be.
- Tangled Mess : Show how decisions can be more effective when a team communicates and collaborates
- We're Having a Party! : Demonstrate the benefits in Single Piece Flow over Batch & Queue
- Doggy Planning : Learn how to do poker planning in a fun and effective way
- Football SCRUM : Enforce the rules of the daily stand-up meeting in a fun way
- Coin Sorting : Demonstrate the value in early and continuous customer feedback
- Collaborative Origami : Show how collaboration leads to faster results and better quality
- You are in Control (Not) : Make a case for self-organizing and cross-functional teams
- Resort Brochure : Simulate an Agile project with this fun and informative game
- 60 Paces : Contrast command and control management with self-organizing teams
- The Train Game : Demonstrate the business value in iterative development
Emotional - Learn by recalling emotion
- 99 Test Balloons : Demonstrate the value in defining upfront acceptance criteria and test harnesses
- Theory of constraints dice game : Learn about value streams and how inventory can be waste
- Pair programming game : Highlights the essence of TDD, by only writing code for failing tests
- Planning poker game : Fun way to create more accurate estimates
- What Were They Thinking : Demonstrate the way requirements are communicated in the software development field
- Alaskan Road Trip : Responding to change over following a plan
- Location! Location! Location! : Demonstrate that co-location promotes better communication and collaboration
- No-one Listens to Me! : Communication exercise that highlights the importance of listening
- Polling game : Wisdom of Crowds demonstration
- Word at a Time Letter : Create an emotional experience to emulate embracing uncertainty
- Process Doodle : Gain visibility in to an organizationʼs current process in an interesting and fun way
- The Story of our Sprints : A fun and very useful way to run Sprint retrospectives that ensures participation from all team members
Impressional - Learn by memorization
- Alphabet Game : A fun way to have participants collaborate to recall learning topics
- Question Game : Use this trivia game format to help review topics
- Picture Me : A fun and creative way to memorize certain types of topics
Other things
- Other Games : Links to Other Games we have found or submitted to us
- Puzzles
- Jokes
- Choosing effective groups
- Learner patterns
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