Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes!
Using the game "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes", we'll explore and highlight teamwork, communication, developing shared language, creating a shared understanding, and much more. This session will be an interactive session for a small group, with other observing, however with multiple rounds, anyone and everyone who wants to participate will be able to! This is a very practical team activity, which easily scales beyond the team, and while it works well in-person, it's even better with distributed teams as we explore the ways we interact and communicate when not co-located.
Outline/Structure of the Workshop
Brief introduction to this session
Brief introduction to the game (most of the learning comes through actually playing the game, which is one of the debrief points which will be explored)
Playing the game (multiple rounds, which allows this workshop a lot of flexibility in timing - anywhere over 45 minutes allows for new lessons to be explored; it works really well with timings between 60-120 minutes, especially with a larger group).
Closing debrief, and additional notes to run this with your team
Learning Outcome
Communication
Teamwork
Working agreements
Impacts of fractional allocation
Specialization vs generalization
Silos and handoffs
Shared language
Overcoming communication overhead with distributed teams
And other stuff, too
Target Audience
Anyone and everyone who works on a team, works with a team, or knows someone who does.
Prerequisites for Attendees
Just come with an open mind, thinking about what team dynamics you've seen in your experiences. We're going to see all of that, and more, and explore what we can do with it. And, while this workshop does involve participation, not everyone needs to participate, unless they want to.
schedule Submitted 4 years ago
Recent Activities
Call for Proposals CLOSED
Ended on Feb 11 '19 03:00 PM EST
Session Lengths
The conference program features several session lengths for submitters to choose from when submitting their session:
- Deep Dive (180 minute session with a 15 minute break) – The program offers a limited number of Deep Dive sessions to allow for in-depth exploration and/or experience with a related topic.
- Workshop (90 minutes) – Most of the conference program is allocated into 90 minute sessions that allow for hands-on facilitation, demonstrating, and debriefing of a game or activity supportive of the conference objective.
- Fast Games (20 minutes) – We offer several short time slots that focus on fast games (games that can be played and debriefed in ~15 minutes or less) – these fast games sessions are intended to play / facilitate a specific activity or game without going into the details / concepts upon which the game is based.
Matt Carlson
Ram Srinivasan
Marty Bakal
Shahin Sheidaei
Alexis Monville
