The Coffee Game
This game lets players experience the burden of being a Product Owner, backlog management and having to choose between stakeholders. Players will form a team responsible for everything related to coffee and will try to create as much business value as possible for their organization while keeping stakeholders happy.
Outline/Structure of the Experience Report
- Intro of facilitators (2 mins)
- Introduce the purpose of the game (3 mins)
- Explain the instructions and distribute materials (5 mins)
- Conduct the game (25 mins)
- Debrief (9 mins)
- Close (1 min)
Learning Outcome
- Basics of backlog prioritizing
- It’s smart to have some sort of business value model as guide to base your backlog ordening on
- Refinement doesnt need to be perfect right away and isn’t a one time thing. Timebox, start and keep refining as you go
- How do you keep stakeholders happy while adding as much business value as possible
Target Audience
Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches
Prerequisites for Attendees
None
Links
Manjit Singh is a CST and an Enterprise Agile Coach. This coaching technique was created by Michael Stanier. I have been using this technique for over a year now and have taught it to C-suite executives, org leaders, managers, etc. I am presenting this for the first time at a Wash DC area meetup Agile Professionals in March 2018.
Manjit speaks publicly very frequently on professional topics related to Agile/Scrum professionally. Additionally, as the co-founder of a 20 year old civil rights organization (www.saldef.org), I speak publicly and have appeared on radio and broadcast TV such as CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and NPR.
I am a seasoned speaker with the privilege of presented at various conferences including Agile2016, Global Scrum Gathering Bangalore 2016, AgileDC 2017, AgileDC 2016, AgileDC 2015. I presented at Global Scrum Gathering Minneapolis April 2018.
Here are links to 2 videos of my speaking:
http://youtu.be/m_-BF6KAB9U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buhbO2UyC2Q
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