Understand the basic Scrum process. Why are iterations, planning, and Product Owner communication important?

Practice standup meetings with a dysfunctional one.

Understand the advantages of iterative planning vs. all-up-front planning.

Understand the reasons behind agile, and the principles that the methodology is built on. Specifically targeted at designers and aims to highlight the benefits of agile, and illustrate how design activities can occur in an agile environment. This game is designed for a large number of people 50-150.

Experience communication, collaboration, and leadership in a team by letting individuals collaboratively follow a circuit using a single pen by pulling strings.

Learn about Scrum and its basic meeting types: Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective.

Learn about how iterations help to identify the assumptions in the project, its cost and duration and the real customer needs.

Understand high performing teams by focusing on people utilization (instead of completing projects early), continuous partial attention, effect of lack of face-to-face communication, limiting work-in-progress.

Learn about acceptance criteria, their definition, and customer communication.

Learn and conduct a risk assessment using Jenga blocks.

Learn about how the basic practices such as iteration planning, iteration review, and retrospective can help teams to self-organize.

Learn about communication, lack of negotiation and requirements clarity using the game of Chinese Whispers.

Learn about Tayloristic vs. Agile knowledge sharing.

Learn about roles and responsibilities across team, Product Owner and Scrum Master.

Understand how the Product Owner’s ability to describe features leads to better results. Learn about different possible interpretations and good and bad styles of test.

Learn basic agile practices including the planning process in iterative software development; it brings together concepts such as: iteration (sprint), backlog, story cards and storypoints, velocity (productivity), impact of defects, technical debt, and risks.

Experience and learn: (1) negotiate an iteration plan, (2) use velocity to measure and make a predictable schedule.