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Agile Games Day

Get hands-on experience with key Agile concepts through a day of Learning by doing.

Thursday, Feb 18th in Downtown Toronto

This training session will run by two expert Agile trainers and coaches – Michael Sahota (CSM, CSP) and Michel Goldenberg (CSM, CST). It is located in downtown Toronto, ON, Canada at the Residence Inn Mariott at 255 Wellington St West.

What you will Learn

Define the Business Value

Fact: Determining the Business Value is an important aspect of an agile project
Fact: Learning that from a book is impossible
Fact: The Business Value Game is the fastest way to learn this

Understand Self-Organizing Teams

Fact: Self-organizational teams are important for agile
Fact: Most people have NO experience with a self-organizing team
Fact: The Leadership Game lets you experience the difference between a command and control, self-organizing and a process led team.

Theory of Constraints

Fact: Every project has a bottleneck that limits productivity
Fact: Most people don’t know how to eliminate a bottleneck to go faster
Fact: The game “I’m not a bottleneck, I’m a free man” will teach you how to apply the Theory of Constraints

What to Expect?

Learn Quickly

Fact: Humans learn fastest when they are playing.
Fact: The Agile game day combines 3 famous agile games

Have Fun

Fact: You’ll have fun
Fact: You will learn a lot

Audience

• People new to agile.
• Agilists stuggling with one of these concepts
• Agile Coaches that look for new ways to explain these concepts to there customers/developers.

Session Activities

Leadership Game (3 hours)

Participants will experience:

• a command and control team
• a self-organising team
• a process led team

More details on The Leadership Game.

Business Value Game (2 hours)

Participant will do 3 iterations of determining business value and learn from their mistakes.  More details on The Business Value Game.

I’m not a bottleneck, I’m a free man (2 hours)

Learn to apply Theory of Constraints in a real project.  More details on “I’m not a bottleneck, I’m a free man”.

History

The three games have been played all around the world on multiple agile events and have been previously run together in Toronto in 2009.

Participants

8 – 20. We are keeping the class small so you get to directly interact and learn.

Registration Closed

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Questions?

Please contact Michael Sahota at:

• Email: michael.sahota AT agilitrix.com
• Phone: 416.999.3297