Index Of Games

Physical - Learn by doing

• Penny Queuing Game : Helps people to understand the efficiency that can come from moving away from a waterfall or large batch process
• Ball Point Game : Demonstrate iterative improvement
• 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
• 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
• 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