{"id":177,"date":"2014-03-02T13:40:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T11:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proessler.wordpress.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2014-03-02T13:40:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T11:40:36","slug":"p4a14-play-4-agile-my-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/p4a14-play-4-agile-my-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"#p4a14 – Play 4 Agile – My Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the third time in a row I had the pleasure to participate at Play 4 Agile (Un-)Conference at R\u00fcckersbach. Three years ago Play 4 Agile 2012 was my first experience with Open Space technology and even my first encounter with the Agile “Play” Community. (Thanks to Sebs<\/a> for introducing me back then!) \u00a0In review t<\/strong>his year’s Play 4 Agile was intense and \u00a0enlightening as ever<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My personal highlights from #p4a14 (un-ordered):<\/p>\n

Gamification Pre-Event<\/strong>
\nI felt honoured to be asked to help facilitate the “Gamification” Pre-Event together with Katrin<\/a> and Thorsten<\/a>. None of us are Gamification experts, but we were holding three sessions about “Gamification and Agile” at Play 4 Agile 2013 together with Birgit<\/a>. In the last year Katrin attended the Gamification Class at Coursera, whereas I read some books and articles about gamification and made some real-live experiences with a team at CHIP<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"pre-eventThe Pre-Event was mainly based on Kevin Werbach’s Gamification Design Process. Some results after only 3,5h were amazing and could actually work for real. My 2 favorites were Carpe Diem (Objective: “Experience more life to prolong your life.”) and a prototype on how to make house-cleaning more fun (Objective: “We want a clean and organized house.”). But I think all groups turned out with a valuable result.<\/p>\n

“Show Me Your Data”<\/strong>
\nMy session “Show Me Your Data” was about understanding and loving Kanban Metrics. (See my blog post here<\/a>.)\u00a0As I played it on several occasions last year (Limited WIP Munich and my new employer) and got lots of feedback on how to improve the game, I tried to bring “Show Me Your Data” to the next level. And I failed! \ud83d\ude42
\nAfter 5 minutes I knew that the changes I introduced were not going to work. So the participants (and me) struggled hard and I stopped the actual game. But then started a (for me) fruitful discussion on how the game could work or could have worked.
\nThanks for every participant for their input.
\nI personally was surprised that I got along with the failure pretty well and saw more the new opportunities that the failure created. (“If you’re not failing, you’re not trying hard enough.”)<\/p>\n

Buy me a Feature<\/strong>
\nIt was great to find my new colleague Tom <\/a>among the #p4a14 participants. At our company we are struggling with prioritization on what to do next (or rather first, as the backlog is overfilled…). To have a common understanding in the company on how hard it is to decide and to reach at least some kind of agreement among managers, Tom introduced “Buy me a feature” to prioritize what should be done next about 9 months ago. We thought it was a good idea to get feedback on this approach. So Tom held a session on how and why we are using “Buy me a Feature” and how the process evolved over time. The participants were curious and gave some very valuable feedback and suggestions on how to improve. Loved it.<\/p>\n

\"buy-me-a-feature<\/p>\n

Creative Suitcase<\/strong>
\n\"creative-suitcaseThis was probably the best session I attended at #p4a14. Katrin <\/a>helped us packing our “Creative Suitcase” and selecting reminders on how to stay creative. I have my suitcase with me most of the time and opened it already some times in the last week…<\/p>\n

LEGO Serious Play “Time Capsule”<\/strong>
\nI was happy to co-facilitate a LEGO Serious Play Session together with Katrin<\/a>, Melanie <\/a>and Sabine. The goal was to create a Time Capsule on “How I have changed my World in 6 Months”. The participants will get a photo of their model in 6 months time. I was messing around with my GoPro during that session and you can get an impression here:<\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EkGTzjRtxe0?rel=0&w=560&h=315]<\/p>\n

This year I felt that there were quite a number of spiritual and coaching sessions proposed, and less “play” sessions. I’d loved to have more focus again on “play” next year, but I know it always depends on the people and their interest and energy.<\/p>\n

Play 4 Agile<\/a> is always about people and talking and discussing and laughing. With my life partner Mel <\/a>(who was attending this year for the first time) we set as a goal for #p4a14 to have as many laughing fits as possible and we think, we did quite well! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Play 4 Agile 2015 will take place on February 20-23, 2015. Can’t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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