Abstract:The end state of a highly performing Scrum team is described in the Scrum Guide by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland as follow: "when the values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect are embodied and lived by the Scrum Team, the Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life and build trust for everyone". Then the authors add: "the Scrum Team members learn and explore those values as they work with the Scrum events, roles and artifacts." We simply believe we can fast-track the development of these Agile core values through daily social games. For the past three years, we have been experimenting with half a dozen of Scrum teams, offering opportunities to play a large variety of games (board games, card games, babyfoot, etc...) during the lunch hour and after hours. The results of this experimentation have quickly exceeded our expectations.
Learning Outcomes:- Why gaming is a very powerful tool to develop our Agile core values
- What we learned from gaming at work
- How to organize a successful gaming routine
- Which games to play
- Unsuspected benefits
