Troublemakers
In this game, participants will have fun and they could discover agile roles and think about forces involved inside agile transformations (for and against).
How to play
Setup
Print the cards
Playing the game
Introduction
Before starting the facilitator of the game needs to explain :
- The game has two phases, “1- During the week end” and “2- Monday morning at the office”
- The differents roles/cards and the associated powers that can be used during the week-end.
During the week end
- “Everyone, close your eyes.”
- “Trouble Makers open your eyes and look for other Trouble Makers.”
- “Trouble Makers, close your eyes.”
- “Product Owner, open your eyes. You may look at another player’s card or two of the center cards.”
- “Product Owner, close your eyes.”
- “Middle Manager, open your eyes. You may exchange cards between two other players.”
- “Middle Manager, close your eyes.”
- (if any) “El Facilitator, open your eyes and look at your card.”
- (if any) “El Facilitator, close your eyes.”
Monday morning at the office (10 minutes)
Players have 10 minutes to discuss amongst themselves who they believe the “Trouble Makers” are.
- All players may say anything but may never show their card to anyone.
- After 10 minutes of discussion, players vote.
- After the vote everyone has to return his card in order to identify who was right.
Debriefing the game
As a facilitator, ask to the participants to do the parallel between their current agile implementation.
Ask simple questionsNow; what are the forces for change? what are the forces against change?
Push some tooling like the force field analysis that you can use in an agile transformation.
Adrien MULLER & Yoan THIRION
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