teach agile thinking and demonstrate the scrum framework with lego!
Mid-sprint. Sprint 1 #CSM #lego4scrum
Posted by Alexey Krivitsky on Tuesday, May 23, 2017
The Book #lego4scrum 3.0 IS OUT:
This is a new book released 31 January 2017.
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.
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.
Hope this helps. And if does, feel free to get the whole book (100 pages):
TEach ICagile certificatioNS WITH lEGO!
The lego4scrum training method is undergoing ICAgile certification.
So anyone teaching Agile and Scrum with #lego4scrum would be able to issue ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP) certificates to the students. Cool, huh?
Interested? Send us an email: info@lego4scrum.com.
Free Older Guides Are Still Available:
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FACILITATION
Planning to teach Scrum?
Consider bringing a bag of LEGO!
Get advices to make the simulation a great experience not only for your students but as well for yourself. The original paper by Alexey Krivitsky gives the bare minimum to get it going.
EXPERIENCES
Have just run the simulation?
Write it up!
We'd love to post your reports as a blog post, a link to your article, photos or video as many other trainers have already done.
TRANSLATIONS
English is too easy?
Consider the choice of 20 languages!
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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.
Teach ICAgile Certifications with #lego4scrum
The lego4scrum training method is undergoing ICAgile certification.
So anyone teaching Agile and Scrum with #lego4scrum would be able to issue ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP) certificates to the students. Cool, huh?
Interested? Send us an email: info@lego4scrum.com.
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
Video: lego4scrum workshop in 53 seconds
Filmed and shared by Bartosz Zieleźnik
Bartosz has shared with us recently an amazing video from his lego4scrum workshop.
Enjoy every second!
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!