Category: Meetup Recaps

Paul led the group through playing TWiG – The WIP Game. TWiG has the player focus on their WIP, or Work In Progress. By manipulating different WIP limits on each of the kanban board columns and determining where to allocate… Read more

Chris facilitated the group through the Multitasking Game – a virtual adaptation by Alan Cyment of an in person game about multitasking. In the game, the entire group works together as a team to deliver their product – haikus. Each… Read more

David shared a recording of his experience running Overcooked 2. He also discussed the parallels between Overcooked and working together on an Agile team. Here’s some additional information on how you can use Overcooked with your teams: Overcooked 2 for… Read more

Marissa and Noah brought Story Cubes to this month’s AGTC meetup. At today’s session, we took a look at Story Cubes and explored various ways we could potentially use them with our teams.  Whether it’s an ice breaker, a team… Read more

Big thanks to David for introducing us to a few different games and activities that can be used for ice breakers with teams or other group sessions. These games are quick – most under five minutes – and intended to… Read more

Matt facilitated our meetup today with Conquer the Numbers. Due to events surrounding the Coronavirus pandemic, games like the Ball Point Game were no longer feasible for video conference-based training. Enter Conquer the Numbers created by Bogoy & Nikola Bogdanov…. Read more

Ryan and Marissa put on their ‘game show host’ hats and facilitated an engaging and nail biting round of  Agile Jeopardy.  Agile Jeopardy is an incredibly versatile game that can be used for trivia, unique retrospectives, reinforce workshop content, and… Read more

Ed walked our group through playing the game Munchkin – a card game with elements of Dungeons & Dragons. Throughout the game, we, as players, were presented with options such as: Choose the ability to increase our retreat speed at… Read more

At this month’s meetup, Chris shared a version of his workshop “Save the World, Save Your Team” using the board game Pandemic. In Pandemic, you are a team of specialists from the CDC setting out to save the world from… Read more

Today, Marissa facilitated the Agile Point Game which is a virtual rendition of the Agile Ball Point Game.  A template for the game was borrowed from Richard Kasperwoski; the template (with the instructions) can be found here:  https://miro.com/miroverse/agile-point-game/ Game play was… Read more