Agile Games and Activities: Planning and Retrospectives
Coming up on Tuesday June 10 2014 at Ordnance Survey HQ in Southampton
Agile teams are big on collaboration, both inside and outside of the delivery teams, and often use "games" to kick start the hard work. A game that most Scrum or XP teams will be familiar with is Planning Poker, which helps team members agree on estimates for the relative complexity of stories in the Product Backlog.At the next Agile South Coast meet up we're going to take the chance to try out some new games, as well as the usual chance to network and swap insights in our friendly Agile community.
The planned activities include a learning game that illustrates the benefit of conversation over documented specifications, and two activities to help during iteration retrospectives. I've been playing one of them at home with my children and they love it - lets see how it plays with the software delivery professionals of the South Coast as they retrospect on the Agile South Coast meet up next Tuesday :)
As usual for the Southampton events, register via the rolling Eventbrite link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agile-south-coast-asc-southampton-meetup-tickets-9358257801
The Ordnance Survey building is easy to get to from the M27 by car, but I've found it's an easy cycle across town through Southampton too.
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/head-office/index.html
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Do you have any games or activities that you find useful in your work? Comment here, or even better, come along and show us (if it can fit inside a 30 minute slot!) See you there?
