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Mid-sprint. Sprint 1 #CSM #lego4scrum
Posted by Alexey Krivitsky on Tuesday, May 23, 2017
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The Book #lego4scrum 3.0 IS OUT:
Last book update: February 2020.
This is the third and by now the most complete guide with a foreword by Henrik Kniberg. This book summarises years of experiments and hundreds of lego4scrum workshops with groups of 10 to 150 participants. It will let you teach Scrum in a complete new, fresh and also fun way.
Get your copy:
An e-book is offered for FREE to University teaching staff. Email info@lego4scrum.com to request your coupon.
This book is written for:
- Scrum Trainers exploring way of adding more elements of interactivity and gaming into the trainings turning them more to “from the back of the room” kind of things.
- Agile Coaches looking for new training and coaching ideas with some elements of serious plays and simulations.
- Scrum Masters willing to get ideas how to introduce agile thinking to new teams and newcomers in a fun and easy way.
- Professors and Teachers trying to adapt their teaching style to the ever-changing world that is full of games, fun and LEGO.
- Anyone else who is in charge of "installing Agile thinking and Scrum in a workspace".
lego4scrum 3.0 incorporates the following popular agile coaching techniques:
- user story mapping
- magic estimates
- overall backlog refinement with multiple teams
- joint multi-team scrum meetings
- continuous integration and deployment
- and more little tips and tricks to make the simulation valuable and fun.
Book translations are on its way!
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Interested to help out? Email us info@lego4scrum.com
Book excerpt on choosing LEGO sets and room set up
So many people keep asking:
Which LEGO sets do I buy?
How many boxes and bricks required for n people?
How to set up the room and make sure all is set for the workshop?
That I've decide to share a book chapter on this topics.
Hope this chapter helps. And if you like it, feel free to get a full book copy:
An e-book is offered for FREE to University teaching staff.
Email info@lego4scrum.com to request your coupon.
Download a book's free chapter dedicated to the topic of preparation to lego4scrum workshop.
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Scaled lego4scrum instructions
The book lego4scrum 3.0 has chapter on a scaled version of the game. The known record is 155 people playing in 22 teams!
So here are the additional instructions for the facilitators:
Book excerpt on choosing LEGO sets and room set up
So many people keep asking things like:
Which LEGO sets do I buy?
How many boxes and bricks required for n people?
How to set up the room and make sure all is set for the workshop?
That I've decided to share the book's chapter dedicated to these and other preparatory topics.
Large-Scale Scrum simulation with LEGO Bricks #lego4scrum #less
The simulation is scalable. The limit is your imagination.
See a new article on using #lego4scrum for simulating LeSS Huge Framework .
The book #lego4scrum is out!
This is a new book released 31 January 2017 by Alexey Krivitsky who has invented lego4scrum back in 2009 or so.
This is the third and by now the most complete guide with a foreword by Henrik Kniberg. This book summarises years of experiments and hundreds of lego4scrum workshops with groups of 10 to 150 participants. It will let you teach Scrum in a complete new, fresh and also fun way.
This book is written for:
- Scrum Trainers exploring way of adding more elements of interactivity and gaming into the trainings turning them more to “from the back of the room” kind of things.
- Agile Coaches looking for new training and coaching ideas with some elements of serious plays and simulations.
- Scrum Masters willing to get ideas how to introduce agile thinking to new teams and newcomers in a fun and easy way.
- Professors and Teachers trying to adapt their teaching style to the ever-changing world that is full of games, fun and LEGO.
- Anyone else who is in charge of "installing Agile thinking and Scrum in a workspace".
lego4scrum 3.0 incorporates the following popular agile coaching techniques:
- user story mapping
- magic estimates
- overall backlog refinement with multiple teams
- joint multi-team scrum meetings
- continuous integration and deployment
- and more little tips and tricks to make the simulation valuable and fun.
Get the book, get some LEGOs and have fun with this.
Scaled #lego4scrum - done with 155 people!
Author: Alexey Krivitsky
Recently I had a chance to run lego4scrum for ... 155 people. And it was fun!
Teaching Agile through Games
Wesley van Heije has just submitted an experience report on teach Scrum with LEGO.
Check it out: Teaching Agile through Games
Image by Hakan Forss
New LEGO Sets
Hey LEGO Lovers,
The LEGO Set referred to in the facilitator's guide is no longer available in stores.
So here are few ideas for its replacement.
LEGO USA Shop:
- LEGO Creative Bricks (#10692)
- LEGO Creative Supplement (#10693)
- LEGO Creative Building Box (#10695)
- LEGO Medium Creative Brick Box (#10696)
Video: Scrum Simulation with LEGO
Filmed and shared by Jan Kees Velthoven
Lego Scrum report from mhs.com
Written by David Cartagena,
Project Manager at mhs.com
We have been working hard to increase adoption of scrum to multiple teams as we’ve had some great success with one project while others have had difficulties getting off the ground.
I took it upon myself to investigate opportunities on how to increase collaboration and understanding of the scrum process with my teams as they worked on multiple projects that were driving towards one collective goal.
Then I found Lego Scrum!
New lego4scrum website is up!
Posted by Alexey Krivitsky
Congrats to all followers and lego4scrum lovers!
We're happy to announce that we've launched a website.
We hope that www.lego4scrum.com looks much better and also serves you better.
It is easier now to find the facilitator's guide and its numerous translations.
We're happy to keep posting your reports experience reports and game variations.
Lets's keep on rolling.