Slides from WorthingDigital's October meetup Making is Visual and Playful

1. JUNE 2012
OCTOBER 2012
Making it visual and playful
By Nick Finch

2. An excuse to play games
FROM THIS TO THIS
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3. Brainstorming to Gamestorming
A TOOLKIT OF PROVEN GAMES WITH
REQUIREMENTS, PRINCIPLES AND
STRATEGIES
SOCIAL GAMES
MADE OF PEOPLE, PAPER, PASSION
MAKE, CREATE, INNOVATE SORTING GAMES
SYNTHESIS GAMES
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4. Fuzzy to Fun
Many applications including:
• Product design Fuzzy goals -
• Creative teams You don’t know what you
• Solution design
don’t know
• Process engineering
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5. Inside the toolbox
VISUAL AGENDA
SPEEDBOAT WHODO
• LOW TECH SOCIAL NETWORK
DESIGN THE BOX NUF TEST • ANTI-PROBLEM
• MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
• FORCED RANKING
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6. Visual Agenda
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7. Speedboat Game
Statement
WorthingDigital fosters and supports the digital
community in and around Worthing
WorthingDigital provides real value
Target
to it’s members
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8. Affinity Mapping
Issues Identified Affinities Programmes
Programme A
Programme B
Programme C
Programme D
Programme E
Programme F
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9. Putting the games to work – Understanding SCRUM
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10. 1 INTRODUCE THE GAME
Purpose of the game, Build a city of LEGO, Materials, Roles, Teams, Rules, Requirements
cards, Planning poker cards
2 REQUIREMENTS
OVERVIEW – 15 MINS
Product Owners run through requirement cards and answer questions. Use post-it notes
to capture additional information
3 ESTIMATION – 20 MINS
Estimate one requirement as a time using planning poker technique.
4 SPRINTS
• Sprint Planning – 3 minutes
• Sprint Execution – 7 minutes
• Sprint Review – 5 minutes
5 REVIEW
Feedback on the game / Observations
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11. In closing
Want to know more?
Gamestorming - http://www.gogamestorm.com/
Innovation Games – http://innovationgames.com/
Doodling revolution - http://sunnibrown.com/doodlerevolution/
Pink Motivation – Dan Pink
http://www.zigzagcycling.com
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