Recently, I faced a new challenge.
As an Agile coach, I audited an organization. Everyone was happy with my observations so I started to begin my intervention by picking my first actions among the ones I recommended. Then the management asked me why these things first. I simply stated that according to my observations that was the most urgent things to do. But they had a different opinion... Was my opinion better than theirs?
I needed something... Visual management? Co-built roadmap? That would still have been duels of opinions... And then came the idea of a battle map. Something than could help everyone understand why one move is the best to do first given our situation, why one action is more pertinent than another and the criteria that lead to the best decisions.

In this presentation, I'll explain the origins of the map, how it works and how to use it, as well as how to build it efficiently

Gam'Inception is a game made of games to learn how to create games... Sounds funnier than dreams in dreams in dreams, don't you think Mr. Nolan?

By playing three serious games, attendees will learn why serious games are a very efficient way to discover new concepts, mechanisms or tools and that everyone is able to build her/his own ones:

• Attendees will have to face me in a drawing duel. Be prepared, I'm almost as good with pens than with ASCII art:
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• Then, they will travel in time, to Venice, the city of Doges, for a mix of Game of the Goose, a game book and an escape game
• Finally, they will participate to Top Chef (at least my version of the show...) and will find their own recipes to cook their own games

The workshop is almost entirely interactive and requires no prior knowledge about serious games (you don't even need to know what a serious game is). At the end of the session, attendees will have learned:

• how a serious game is structured
• which steps are essential to building a serious game
• which steps are 'nice to have' when they build a serious game
• that they are way more qualified to build their own serious games than they thought
• how efficient a serious game is to learn new things
• how highly corruptible I am

Note that I always try to co-present with Leonardo DiCaprio but, sometimes, he is too busy to come ;-)
I hosted it successfully several times in Europe (Agile France, Agile Tour Paris, Xebicon and smaller events) last year so the structure is solid.

Slides, in French, are available here. The workshop (and its slides) will, of course, be in English with the possibility for attendees to ask me anything in French if they are more comfortable with this language