Play is a powerful method to learn! Come and play some simple agile games that use playing cards, index cards and dice to explore the different values that are at the foundation of Agile and Lean development practices. In addition to your own insights, you may be able to take these game back to work to share with your co-workers.
This is a hands-on session so come prepared to have some fun!
There is no "right" answer to what you're "supposed to" learn from a game, so come ready to discover your own insights into software development processes and teamwork.
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Play to Learn: Agile Games with Cards and Dice
1. Three Cards, Three Celebrities
• Write down a living celebrity on each of three cards.
• Return the cards to the front.
2. Play to Learn!
Agile Games with Cards and Dice
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13. Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
14. Principles of Agile Software Development
• Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable
software.
• Welcome changing requirements, even late in development.
• Deliver working software frequently.
• Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
• Build projects around motivated individuals.
• The most efficient and effective method of conveying information is face-to-face conversation.
• Working software is the primary measure of progress.
• Agile processes promote sustainable development.
• Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
• Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
• The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
• At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then adjusts accordingly.
15. Principles of Agile Software Development
• satisfy the customer
• changing requirements
• deliver frequently
• work together
• motivated individuals
• face-to-face conversation
• working software
• sustainable development
• technical excellence
• simplicity
• emerge from self-organizing teams
• team reflects
32. Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.