Agile Games Day

Define the Business Value
Fact: Determining the Business Value is an important aspect of an agile project
Fact: Learning that from a book is impossible
Fact: The Business Value Game is the fastest way to learn this

Understand Self-Organizing Teams
Fact: Self-organizational teams are important for agile
Fact: Most people have NO experience with a self-organizing team
Fact: The Leadership Games lets you experience the difference between a command and control, self-organizing and a process led team.

Theory of Constraints
Fact: Every project has a bottleneck that limits productivity
Fact: Most people don’t know how to eliminate a bottleneck to go faster
Fact: The game “I’m not a bottleneck, I’m a free man” will teach you how to apply the Theory of Constraints

Learn Quickly
Fact: Humans learn fastest when they are playing.
Fact: The Agile game day combines 3 famous agile games

Have Fun
Fact: You’ll have fun
Fact: You will learn a lot

Audience

- People new to agile.
- Agilists stuggling with one of these concepts
- Agile Coaches that look for new ways to explain these concepts to there customers/developers.

Benefits of participating

Participants will experience 
- a command and control team
- a self-organising team
- a process led team

- do 3 iterations of determining business value and learn from their mistakes.

- learn to apply TOC in a real project

Session timeline

- Leadership Game: 3 hours
- Business Value Game: 90 minutes
- I'm not a bottleneck, I'm a free man: 90 minutes 

History

The three games have been played all around the world on multiple agile events.
They are now grouped as a one day event for the first time.

Participants

7 - 20 
 
 
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