Agile Tour Delhi NCR2014 - Agile innovation games rahul sudame

Agile Innovation
Games
Rahul Sudame
CSM, CSP, PMI-ACP

Agenda
Introduction to Innovation Games
Games for Agile PMs
Game 1: Hot Air Balloon
Game 2: Prune the Product Tree
Game 3: What a Volunteer Wants?
Agile Innovation Games for Chapter Strategies

Games are Fun!
 Everyone loves to play games!

Innovation Games
 Introduced by Luke Hohmann.
 Fun way to get feedback from the
participants.
 Visual and experiential way of sharing
thoughts.
 Participation by actual customers or end
users.
 Collect feedback on a current / new products
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Benefits
 Organizing thoughts / ideas / suggestions
together.
 Understanding the customer expectations.
 Identifying desired features / services.
 Identifying strategy or making strategic
decisions.
 Prioritizing most important features.

Games for Product Owners
 Use at Strategic / Operational planning
sessions.
 Play with customers to understand their
expectations.
 Understand customer’s grievances.
 Get feedback on current products, projects,
services, benefits etc.
 Enhance collaboration within the community.

Games for Organizations
 Executives: Generate / Prioritize new ideas.
 Marketing: Conduct market research – What
the customer wants?
 Product Management: Identify enhancements
to existing solutions & Stakeholder
prioritization.
 HR/Admin: Get feedback from employees on
work environment / policies etc.

A Product Vision Box
Front:
- Name
- Picture or drawing (if possible)
- Slogan
- 3 / 4 Bullets arguments for Sale / Selling points
Back:
-A more detailed view with more functionality
- The pre-requisites.
- Operating requirements

Product Vision Box
 Conference organizers are asked to use
cardboard box and sell the conference key
highlights using it.
 Put the vision statement or USP clearly.
 Highlight the value or benefits of the
conference, agenda/speakers etc.
 Highlight the key points:
◦ Date / Venue
◦ Cost

Game 1 – Strategic Planning
 Objective: Conduct Strategic Planning to make
Agile Transformation further successful in 2015.
 Identify the drivers that would help the team
grow.
 Identify the potential issues that would prevent
the growth.
 Brainstorm on the strategy for growth of the
team.
 Manage the potential risks and identify mitigation
plans.

Strategic Planning
 Preparations:
◦ A whiteboard or large sheet of paper
◦ A picture of a balloon & ropes
◦ Index card or sticky notes for the
participants

Strategic Planning
 How it works:
◦ The balloon wants to fly high up in the sky
(denotes successful Agile environment).
◦ The air pushes the balloon upwards (positive
push).
◦ The ropes tied up with the balloon prevents it
from flying (negative push) .
◦ Participants write their inputs on sticky notes.
◦ Participants brainstorms to define the strategy.

Strategic Planning

Guidelines
 Refrain from giving judgment or trying to fix
the problem during the game.
 Focus on understanding the feedback shared
by the participants.
 Same issues identified by multiple members
indicate gravity of the situation.
 Review the final results, organized by priority.

Lets Play!
 Strategic Planning for building a successful
Agile team.
 Identify what would make the team
successful.
 Identify any potential risks that would impact
the team.
 Place the positive and negative push on the
board.
 Brainstorm on the strategies to make the
team successful. Agile Innovation Games for Chapter Strategies

Where to use?
 To identify strategic objectives of the
organization / team.
 To define the operational plan / new
initiatives.
 To create a risk management plan.
 Establish the team common goals /
guidelines.
 Establish areas to focus on (Marketing, HR
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Game 2 – Build a Product
 Objective: Identify the core features and
stretch goals to define a product roadmap.
 Identify the importance of various features.
What would provide most value to the
customers?
 Identify the timelines for providing the
features.
 Identify the features and release timeframe
for delivering those features.

Prune the Tree
 Preparations:
◦ A whiteboard or large sheet of paper
◦ A picture of a Tree
◦ Index card or sticky notes for the
participants

Prune the Tree
 How it works:
◦ Write different current or proposed features
as leaves.
◦ Customers would add the core features at
the center of the tree and extended features
at the outer edge.
◦ Add or remove the leaves on the tree to
balance the set of features.
◦ Identify the roots – support framework for the
product.

Prune the Tree

Lets Play!
 Identify the core & extended features of an
Automation Framework.
 Use sticky notes as leaves. Place core
features at the center of the tree and
extended features at the outer edge.
 If some of the features do not add any values
then remove such leaves from the tree.
 Identify the priorities of providing various
features through its placement.

Where to use?
 To identify the core features required in any
product.
 To identify the required membership services.
 To identify the unused features and prune
them.
 To identify the customer care infrastructure
(roots).
 Identify the features that provide value and
develop release plan.

Game 3 – Plan the Conference
Budget
 Objective: Identify the core tasks for
organizing Agile Tour 2015, with the available
budget.
 Identify the investments to be made in the
next year.
 Identify the right features for a product
release.
 Prioritize the set of features.
Get the customer perspective.

Game 3 – Plan the Conference
Budget
 Team has Total 500 Rs.
 Task List with cost:
◦ Hotel expenses: 300 Rs.
◦ Speakers Travel: 100 Rs.
◦ Participant Kit: 50 Rs.
◦ Video recording: 150 Rs.
◦ Logistics (like notepad, pens, tags): 50 Rs.
◦ Conference Souvenir: 80 Rs.

Game 4 – Cruise for Potential
Members
 Use outrageous services to identify the value
customers are looking for.
 The participants would brainstorm amongst
themselves about their expectations from
membership.
 Fancy language or crazy ideas would trigger
the participants to clarify their expectations.
 The less valuable ideas would get rejected. Agile Innovation Games for Chapter Strategies

Game 4 – Cruise for Potential
Members
 Create set of index cards with crazy
ideas.
 Share outrageous ideas like,
◦ Free cruise every month
◦ Free trip to Hawaii
◦ Big news about membership
 Let the participants brainstorm about
these ideas and identify what is most
valuable for them and what they would
be willing to pay for.

Game 5 – Retro

Game 6 – Give me water and
sun!

Game 7 – Don’t miss the bus!

Role of Games Facilitator
 Explain the objective of the game and its
steps.
 Work across groups, answer any queries &
stay focused.
 Facilitate healthy discussions / brainstorming
amongst the participants.
 Initiate the review process and support in
developing objective outcome during the
session.

Games for Agile Environment
 Agile Manifesto:
◦ Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
◦ Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
 Identify what provides most value to the
customer.
 Identify customer’s inputs on priorities for the
features.
 Direct communication between the customer and
teams.
 Understand different views / perspectives of
peers.

Games to Build Collaboration
 Use various games effectively to facilitate
collaboration amongst the chapter members,
board members and potential members /
volunteers.
 Understand the member / volunteer expectations
and concerns.
 Project Managers can facilitate these games to
build team bonding and collaborative
environment.
 Customer expectations can be understood more
effectively.

References
 Innovation Games®: Creating
Breakthrough Products Through
Collaborative Play - Luke Hohmann
 http://innovationgames.com

Let’s start the Game!
Thank You!
- Rahul Sudame
9890021139
rahulsudame@yahoo.com

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