Story Points & Velocity are a sign of an unsuccessful team
Interesting post about the Story Points and Velocity usage: https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/story-points-velocity-are-sign-unsuccessful-team
The Scrum Accountability Game – How to evaluate the accountabilities in Scrum
In this blog, we want to share with you how to play the ‘Scrum Accountability Game’ in a virtual setting and I’ll also be sharing our Mural template that you can use.
https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-accountability-game-how-evaluate-accountabilities-scrum
Mischief Makers Facilipedia
Game of the week – Santas Workshop (Game of circles)
In this virtual agile game, we bring agile to life through simulating sprints, retrospectives, planning & team collaboration
When to use this game?
– Would you like to introduce agile ways of working to a new team? – Would you like to remind existing teams about some of the core principles of agility? – Would you just like to have a bit of festive fun with your team?
Play this game with your teams or those within your company to show them in a very tangible way, how it feels to iterate, inspect & adapt, and work together.
Agile Games And Exercises List
- TastyCupcakes.org – Fuel for Invention and Learning
- Conteneo Inc. – Prioritization Without Politics™
- 35 – Gamestorming
- White Elephant Sizing « TastyCupcakes.org
- InfoQ: Agile Games for Learning
- Trifork Agile Excellence: Exercise Introducing Story Maps
- XP Game « Agile Belgium
- Red Bead Experiment Video and Materials « Lean and Kanban
- Customer’s Run: Iteration Planning
- Agile Airplane Game | Gist Labs
- Learning Scrum through the Ball Point Game | Declan Whelan
- Alistair.Cockburn.us | Elephant Carpaccio exercise
- Innovation Games | Serious Games for Business
- TastyCupcakes.org
- getKanban.com
- agile42 | Kanban-Pizza-Game
- Play the Scrum Simulation (based on XPGame) for Great Learning
- (99+) AgileGames – Google Groups
- Fun Retrospectives
Copied the above list from: https://www.agilesparks.com/resources/topicsubject-reading-lists/agile-games-and-exercises-list/ 😇
When are SMART goals not-so-smart?
Interesting read from Kurt Bittner which may help you in preparing for the EBM exam 🙂
https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/when-are-smart-goals-not-so-smart
Tech Debt Walls
Every codebase carries some amount of technical debt. Every team would like to get better at managing that tech debt.
The first step in managing something is making it visible. A tech debt wall is a simple, effective way to make tech debt visible.
Pete Hodgson wrote a nice article about Tech Debt Walls which can be found here: https://blog.thepete.net/blog/2020/12/01/tech-debt-walls/
Xebia Academy Video Trainings
Watch the 2020 Webinar week videos here: https://community.xebia.academy/all-courses