Games you can play with an distributed team

[Bart Reyserhove]

Hi agile game fans,

I was wondering whether someone of you has already played games with a distributed team. I want to play a game in which the Indian part of the team can also take part, and ideally the game improves the communication between the onshore and the offshore team. This communication is not bad at this moment but a lot of the communication still happens through intermediaries in the onshore team instead of the offshore team directly contacting the right contact in the onshore team.

Best regards,

Bart

[Thierry Montulé]

Are agile teams (on and off) supposed to be at the same location to do that or distributed ?

 

Best regards

 

Thierry

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[Bart Reyserhove]

They are distributed, and I cannot get them all in the same location to play a game. Some of them will fly over anyway, but I will never have all of them in one location.

2011/5/10 Thierry Montulé <montule...@neuf.fr>

[Cuan Mulligan]

I suppose you could adapt the ball flow game, with having anchor people on each side , you would need to double up the tools, and have a faciliator on either side.

If your interested, or you think it may work, happy to talk you through it.

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[Bart Reyserhove]

I do not entirely follow how you throw the ball to the other side?

[Don McGreal]

Hi Bart,

Many of the Innovation Games are online here:
http://innovationgames.com/innovation-games-online/
I've played By a Feature online with great success.
My remote teams often play planning poker online here: http://planningpoker.com/

I have played a few learning/collaboration games, like the one on
http://tastycupcakes.org, over video conference.
They were simpler ones that didn't need much materials; like Presto
Manifesto and People Polling. I setup a remote volunteer to help
facilitate though.

I imagine that quite a few others on TastyCupcakes would work great
remotely. You would just have to go through them and then organize
setting up the materials remotely, maybe by appointing a remote
facilitator.

I would be very interested to hear about any games you do end up
playing remotely.

Good luck!

Don

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[Brian Bozzuto]

About a month ago, i played the spec writing game / lost in
translation (http://agile.dzone.com/news/lost-translation-agile-game)
with a remote team. It was surprisingly effective, we used a shared
white board for drawing (www.cacoo.com) and basically had people send
their instructions via email to the people who would then draw on the
shared space. We managed to run about 3 teams simultaneously and
people got so into it we had laughing on the bridgeline.

There was a little bit of a learning curve getting people comfortable
with the platform, but people liked it quite a bit.

At the risk of sounding like a product endorsement, I would say that
Cacoo is quite a powerful platform and you could conduct just about
any exercise that would require nothing more than a white board using
it. I know we've also done a lot of different retrospectives, such as
Speedboat, using that tool.

On May 11, 9:35 am, Don McGreal <m...@donmcgreal.com> wrote:
> Hi Bart,
>
> Many of the Innovation Games are online here:http://innovationgames.com/innovation-games-online/
> I've played By a Feature online with great success.
> My remote teams often play planning poker online here:http://planningpoker.com/
>

> I have played a few learning/collaboration games, like the one onhttp://tastycupcakes.org, over video conference.

[Yves Hanoulle]

hi Brian,

sounds cool. Did you document this somewhere on the web?

y

2011/5/12 Brian Bozzuto <brian....@gmail.com>

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[Cuan Mulligan]

Hi Bart,

I have a solution for that , but that worked for one team, in fact it came from the teams. They found fixing that very problem very beneficial. 

The game is pretty simple so most people can "get" it, then they can focus on making it work across the video conferencing, they found the solutions to that were useful in resolving  the real world working issues they were having.

Cheers

Cuan

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[Bart Reyserhove]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the tip. I will try the lost in translation game with a remote team tomorrow. 

Regards,

Bart

[Bart Reyserhove]

Hi all,

I just wanted to let you know how the 'lost in translation' game went with my distributed team.

It did not entirely go as I wanted.

What went well: 

- the game showed that communication can still be improved and concrete actions were defined to make that happen

- Cacoo is a promising tool but see 'what did not go well'

- I think it is also good that it showed that team members need to help each other more. It is the output of the team that counts.

- The team had fun

What did not go well:

- Cacoo went down. I don't know whether we caused it or something but in the middle of the game it just went down....

- Cport video conferencing quality is not always good. That's not only a problem for this session of course but still we need to solve that impediment.

- The role 'developer' had issues with drawing in the tools. It is not proven technology for them. 

- The second picture I used was too difficult.

Anyway I would go it again but I would work with the remote team first to make sure they understand the tool and know how to use it. 

Before we did the 'lost in translation' game we did the 'profile card exercise': http://www.selfishprogramming.com/2009/04/11/meeting-the-team/. The team said they really enjoyed that and that it was really helpful.

[Ledalla Madhavi]

Hi all,

   I have used Luke Hohmann innovation games for doing retrospectives. They are really quick and effective, and most importantly all the data gets collated into an excel sheet on a single click of a button, and this data can be further analysed to check for outliers and surprises..

 

Thanks, Madhavi.

[Silvana Wasitova]

Folks,

for whiteboard, have you tried Henrik Kniberg's http://webwhiteboard.com/#/ ?

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[Jurgen De Smet]

You could check this: http://blog.co-learning.be/2015/03/12/collaborative-workshops-from-the-beach/