What's the best way to teach agile? By playing agile games, of course. In this session, we will talk about some of the different ways in which people learn and introduce some of the games which we use at Box UK to introduce clients to agile concepts and practices. Expect a fun, interactive session as Allie employs those very techniques to show Agile Cymru why agile play can be serious fun.

1. Making Agile serious fun!

2. @brocknroller
#agcym16
Allie Brock
Business analyst
Product owner
Agile coach
Roller derby player!

3. FACT
Training courses are boring

5. People forget 40% of what they
learned after 20 minutes
http://willthalheimer.typepad.com/files/how-much-do-people-forget-v12-14-2010.pdf

6. People forget 77% of what they
learned after six days
http://willthalheimer.typepad.com/files/how-much-do-people-forget-v12-14-2010.pdf

7. People forget 90% of what they
learned after one month
http://willthalheimer.typepad.com/files/how-much-do-people-forget-v12-14-2010.pdf

9. AGILE

10. How do people learn?

11. Visual Auditory
Reading Kinesthetic
http://vark-learn.

12. Visual Auditory
Reading Kinesthetic
Over 50%
http://vark-learn.

14. “People are 3 times more likely to
learn and retain knowledge through
playing games”
Alvin Toffler - The Third Wave

15. Active
Passive
RetentionLevel
Low
High
http://www.mycoracle.com/news/opinions/differences-between-active-and-passive-learning
Teach others
Practise doing
Discussion
Demonstration
Audiovisual
Reading
Lecture

16. “Tell me and I forget.
“Teach me and I may remember.
“Involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin

17. AGILE

18. http://tastycupcakes.org/2012/02/you-sunk-my-

19. Let’s play Battleships!

20. How to play
● Split group into two teams (Team A and Team B)
● Both teams have 2 minutes to plan their ship placement
(horizontal or vertical - no diagonal placement). 18
markers, top grid
● Team A then have 5 minutes to plan their hits up front.
30 hits, bottom grid
● Team A then relay their planned hits to Team B.
● Team B reply with miss/hit/hit and sunk.
● Team B then have 5 minutes to play each of their 30
hits, and receive feedback from Team A after each hit

21. The results!

22. Questions?

23. www.boxuk.com/agilecymru
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