Note: The post was first published on Medium here by Sunish Chabba and has been reproduced here as-is. As an Agile Coach and Consultant, I’ve often grappled with the challenge of maintaining a vibrant, creative atmosphere during workshops and strategy sessions. My love for board games and escape rooms inspired me to design my own escape room game, with a focus on fostering collaboration and… The post Unlocking Team Creativity: The Elementalist’s Enigma Escape Room Icebreaker first appea...| TastyCupcakes.org
Improving Relationships by Exploring Different Perspectives The quality of the relationships between people is directly related to how much they trust each other, and trust (as a manifestation of Psychological Safety) is known to underpin happinness and high performance in any team. Often, relationships have challenges and get stuck there because of different perspectives not being aired, explored and understood – and differences going unresolved.… The post “Everyone is right, only part...| TastyCupcakes.org
The Agile Canvas – agile sprint planning template Get started with Agile using the simple sprint planning Being Agile canvas Introduce others to Agile methods. The agile canvas is a simple template to help bring an agile angle to your work and life. Download your copy of the canvas and a free video course to help you apply agile The canvas is a great way… The post The Being Agile Canvas Template first appeared on TastyCupcakes.org.| TastyCupcakes.org
The Scale Agile simulator is accessible on our site: https://scale.octigo.pl/ The Scale Agile simulator allows you to play a team of 2-5 people at once. It demonstrates the problems of sharing resources, bottlenecks, picking people up, prioritizing and responding to opportunities. The goal of the players is to deliver tasks of the highest value within a given number of sprints. In addition to individual effectiveness,… The post Scale Agile simulator first appeared on TastyCupcakes.org.| TastyCupcakes.org
This is a semi-self-paced retro designed to be done within 60-75 minutes. It uses the board from the boardgame Clue as a metaphor. This retro was designed for use on Mural or Miro after witnessing really uninspiring retros online that didn’t do any examination into underlying causations before deciding on actions. You start in the Hall to open the retro. Here you could do a… The post CLUE: The Retro first appeared on TastyCupcakes.org.| TastyCupcakes.org
My second favorite Retro I invented…only second to Retro Catz! Instructions: Present the following categories to your Team to to see if any of them align with aspects of the Sprint just concluded. The post Dogs Retro! first appeared on TastyCupcakes.org.| TastyCupcakes.org
My favorite Retrospective that I have invented to date. Backstory: I had a team that was obsessed with Cats (well…most of them…hence the need to create a follow-up Retro involving Dogs). While trolling for the best cat memes on the internet, I learned that some of my favorite cat pics resembled some of the most important basic human emotions. Try this fun Retro to see… The post Retro Cats! first appeared on TastyCupcakes.org.| TastyCupcakes.org
A mindfulness exercise that helps us to take the stance of not-knowing and to recognize how quickly we let ourselves be guided by our first impression. With this bias we often miss the chance to explore alternatives and thus leave even much better solutions uncovered. The post What you think is what you get (WYTIWYG) first appeared on TastyCupcakes.org.| TastyCupcakes.org
A short, insightful game to review motivational effects and their impact onto us. I use this game within my “Ikigai” presentation. In there I talk about motivation, the 4 areas of intrinsic motivation and how to foster the thinking about that topic. The coin Sort Game or tower of Babel -as some call it- is inspired by the facilitation mechanics of the name game by… The post The shaky, motivational tower of Babel first appeared on TastyCupcakes.org.| TastyCupcakes.org
This is a great agile thinking exercise to really help you to understand and raise your awareness of an agile mindset. I play this game in my training, and I have played it numerous times over the past 10 years. I’ve played it as a variation of the game I have Never too at conferences| TastyCupcakes.org