People keep saying SAFe is a very prescriptive methodology with zero room for engagement and participation. In this session we will uncover the many opportunities for participation/games in a Scaled Agile implementation. We will also share Kahoot - a useful game platform I've been using in recent years to quickly drive participation with large groups.
Kahoot is an awesome online Quiz/Discussion/Survey tool that is free and easy to both setup and use. We will use Kahoot to learn and experience a couple of the key activities in a Scaled Agile implementation - Planning an implementation, Generating Buy-in, Prioritizing Features, Estimating Features, Gauging confidence for plans, Managing risks, Retrospecting a session and more.
Using the SAFe/Scaled Agile context we will experience both a couple of ready games as well as the full cycle of game thinking/design from identifying need/purpose all the way thru creating an outline, the questions, and running and debriefing so you can use it on your own.
Along the way you will also learn and experience some aspects of SAFe(tm) - The Scaled Agile Framework.
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How to spark engagement and participation in a SAFe Scaled Agile Implementation using Online Games such as Kahoot/Socrative
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How to spark engagement and
participation in a SAFe Scaled
Agile Implementation using
Online Games
Yuval Yeret
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About Me
• Help people spark Real business agility at scale.
• Allergic to Agile Theater (And Dust, and probably Dog/Cat hair)
• Senior enterprise agility coach at AgileSparks, an international lean
agile consulting company with offices in Boston, Israel, India.
• Blogging at yuvalyeret.com.
• Living in Newton, MA – heading business development and agile
consulting engagements for AgileSparks in the US.
• Email me questions/feedback/suggestions at
yuval@agilesparks.com or 857-218-9585.
• Slides will be available at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuvalyeret.
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• Get to know you guys & your SAFe background & experience
Kahoot
• Short introduction to SAFe / Scaled Agile Framework
foundations.
• Why Engagement is important on a SAFe/Scaled Agile
implementation.
• Highlight a couple of the key interaction/participation points in
SAFe implementations.
• What is Kahoot, Why/How we use it in the context of
implementation
• Show some uses of kahoot as a Lean/Agile Coach/Change
Agent/Servant Leader (probably driven as a kahoot quiz as
well, we shall see) on a Scaled Agile implementation.
• workshop to design your own kahoot
• Retrospective
• Q&A / Open Discussion
The Game Plan
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Game Design Workshop
• Choose a context for Kahoot on a Scaled Agile
Implementation (either one of the highlighted contexts or
your own)
• design high level game approach
• create a couple of questions
• Move this into Kahoot/Socrative
• play?
• Share!
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Let’s collect some game ideas
Game/Feature Benefit WSJF
1 (example)
Prologue – Introduction
Get to know you guys & your SAFe
background & experience Kahoot
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• Feature – A brief 1 to 3 word title summarizing the feature
• Benefit – A short description that elaborates the feature and describes the value to the user. There may be multiple benefits.
• WSJF – The calculated Weighted Shortest Job First.
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• Describe how the game would work like at a high level.
• Acceptance Critera - What would be the results of
running it – what decisions/learning would we have
• In our Example:
– Audience Played kahoot get understand the potential
– Mapped SAFe+Kahoot background and can adjust workshop
accordingly
– Started strong with a game rather than powerpoint – survived
post-lunch-snooze?
• Note – these are all ASSUMPTIONS regarding the
game. You’ll need to validate them!
Design high level game approach
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• First, let’s choose one of your examples and I’ll show
you how to do it.
• If you have a laptop you can go to http://create.kahoot.it ,
get a user, and create your quiz there, as we go along.
• Another option is http://socrative.com/
Move this online
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• Tweet it to #AgileGames2016
• Or just send a link to my email –
Yuval@AgileSparks.com (promise no spam or anything)
Want us to play your game?
#AgileGames2016