This is a fun and instructive exercise that encourages teams to experience simple but profound lessons in collaboration, innovation & creativity. It challenges you to find hidden assumptions in business requirements & learn to Fail-Fast-Fail-Often! In 18 minutes, teams must build the tallest free-standing structure out of spaghetti, tape, string and one marshmallow which must be on top.

1. The Marshmallow Challenge

2. Your kit

3. Roles & Responsibilities
Development experts
Testing experts

4. The
Challenge
1. Build the ta!est "ee standing
structure
2. The entire marshma!ow should
be on top
3. Use as much or as little of the kit
4. Breakup the spaghetti, string or
tape as you wish
5. You have 18 minutes

5. Lets play!
18 minutes start now..

6. Ta-dah to Oh-ohh
moment explained..

12. Who consistently performs
Poorly?

13. Recent B-school grads
CxOs,

14. Who consistently performs
Well?

15. Kindergarten students,
Architects & Engineers (thankfully)

16. Why?

18. Key lessons
Test early
Testing right from inception through dev until production
Fail fast Fail Often
Prototyping matters
Identify the hidden assumptions
Avoid the ta-daa to uh-ohh moment

19. Thank you!

20. Animal calling..
ice-breaker