Great Games for Scrum and Agile Learning

I love using games and interactive activities when I share Scrum and Agile with people. Here's a list of some of the games I use.

Name games

These games are from Stanley Pollack's excellent book, Moving Beyond Icebreakers.

• Name shout, name wave, name race, name and motion, name and secret skill, name and adjective
• Bag Toss 

Class start-up

These ways of collaborating are some of the Core Protocols.

• The Core Commitments
• Pass (Unpass)
• Check In
• Check Out
• Decider

Scrum and Agile fundamentals

• Ball Point Game
• Ball Flow Game  
• Presto Manifesto
• Class project: use Scrum to write courseware that teaches you everything you need to know about Scrum (inspired by Jim & Michelle McCarthy's Core Protocols BootCamp)
• Scrum, itself, is a game!

Estimating

• Doggy Planning
• White Elephant Sizing
• Planning Poker

Retrospectives

• Innovation Games, including Speed Boat and 20/20 Vision
• Perfection Game (a Core Protocol) and Passionometer (an additional Protocol)

Self-organization

These activities are from my blog post on Agile Games for Self-Management.

• Line Up
• 60 Paces
• Triangles
• Human Knot
• Human Sculpture

Multitasking

• Alphabet and numbers: How fast can you go at simple tasks? What if you multitask? Round one: in 10 seconds, write the letters, e.g. A B C D. Round two: in 20 seconds, write letters and numbers, e.g. A1 B2 C3 D4. Round three: in 30 seconds, write letters, numbers, and the letters of your name, e.g. A1R B2I C3C D4H. Round four: in 40 seconds, write letters, numbers, the letters of your name, and the letters of the alphabet backward, e.g. A1RZ B2IX C3CY. Michael de la Maza taught me this game. Here’s a timer you can use.

Batch size

• Penny Flow Game

What are you favorite Agile and Scrum learning games?

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