Agile Games for Managers
Inspired by my great friend and awesome coach Ariel Ber, this dynamic is a sequence of quick games for Managers. Games to understand key principles to design better organisations.
If a manager decides to start an agile transformation without taking into account its values and principles, there is a risk that the result will be empty and meaningless, and eventually harmful. Most failures adopting agile methodologies are due to ignore the essence in them, assuming that we do not need to work to develop them.
Games and simulations are a powerful tool to tackle agile values and principles without falling into obvious conceptualisations. In this interactive and dynamic session, we will simulate real situations through challenging and innovative games, which will allow us to reflect on the essentials of agility and take concrete ideas on how to put it into practice to transform our teams and entire organisation.
wish you enjoy this session and get some good take-aways from it. Meanwhile, I´ll appreciate your comments to my proposal to be able to tweak and improve it if required. Thanks
Outline/Structure of the Workshop
Sequence of games of 10-15 minutes each followed by discussion on the principles behind them. Expected 5-6 games.
Session can be shrunk to 40-45' if required to fit into the conference program. Expected 3 games.
Learning Outcome
Participants will learn from the dynamics:
- The radical importance of principles and values.
- How risky it can be to consider Agile only as a set of rules and practices.
- The richness that we can obtain from the combination of games to have significant experiences and facilitated conversations to turn them into experience and learning.
Each game will show specific principles and values for participants to understand and take into account into their organisations:
- The power of self-organisation when there is a precise objective, limits and autonomy.
- The value of receiving clear feedback.
- The importance of situational leadership and resolution of complex problems through emerging plans.
- The experience of building a product through an iterative and incremental process.
- The experience that trust is built and it is very difficult to recover it once it is lost.
Target Audience
All levels
Prerequisites for Attendees
no prerequisites but if you have 30 minutes available you can challenge your assumptions on how Trust works with this game: https://ncase.me/trust/
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Recent Activities
- description Marc Florit updated proposal Agile Games for Managers 3 Timesschedule 3 years ago
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Call for Proposals CLOSED
Ended on Jun 30 '19 11:59 PM AEST
Find Your Edge
Welcome! We are super excited to hear from you.
- The theme this year is Find Your Edge. We want you to talk about what is currently challenging you or the thing that gives you an advantage in your field. What is the theory, practice or concept that you are struggling with but that also excites you. It's not just about answers, it's about questions.
- Pitch us your ideas! Talks, hands-on sessions, workshops. This year we have also added 5 min lighting talks and 20 min TED style talks. There are lots of options, just make sure you let us know what kind of room layout would work best and any special requirements you have.
- Be as detailed as possible in your submission, as this will help you to refine your idea in your own mind, help the content curation team select your session, and enable people who are coming to LAST Sydney to decide that they want to come and participate in your session/s.
- Don't forget, you can edit your session and adjust the idea in the coming weeks, so don't think that you've only got one chance. You can also submit multiple ideas and proposals.
- The LAST Sydney committee is here to help. If you would like to have some coaching or shaping of your idea just let us know.
- LAST Sydney looks forward to finding your edge with you!
Out of town submitters
As we are focused on the local community, we don’t expect people to travel from interstate or overseas to participate, although you are welcome if you choose to come. LAST Sydney is an event with low registration prices, so we need to keep overheads low. Therefore, we generally do not reimburse travel and accommodation or pay a fee to session leaders/speakers.
Registration
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Who needs a nudge?
We would love to know who else you know who has a great idea but needs a nudge. LAST welcomes first time and experienced speakers. Let us know, and we'd be happy to reach out.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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