Engaging ways to learn agile

Sure. I will try to explain in the best english I can. There are two "versions" of "The Office", one from USA and the other British. I took both to get examples to be used in both continents plus Latin America because some situations are valid for Latin America culture too. It was a hard work I made myself and then I validated with HR and Change Management divisions. I did that trying to put in practice the same I used as tennis coach. I used the TV series with two purposes: 1-show the team things they do in they daily work life without put them in evidence. it was funny the comments they did while watch the scenes and when they take into account the situation maps they current work life the silence they did. Obviously at the end I facilitate an evaluation session but always taking without saying thing like "hey, is what you do each day" 2-take some games you can see in the series, replicate it with the team, but to show what not to do. I mean, the game in the series is to be used to get an objective that you can see is not achieved. I used it to replicate the same and to analyze the reason. Something I did not write before: just in case you are trying to learn an specific method of framework (Scrum for example) then you can find games into the internet. The same for techniques like Design Thinking or Responsive Working. But in my personal experience, learn Agile is not about to learn a method.

Maura - while the term and outcome of value can be a subjective one, anytime we read about and learn something new, I would certainly call that valuable.

I'd assume the goal here is to help others to understand the what and why's around agile in your organization. The delivery and mechanism of that message and the content vehicle used can be significantly impactful in how much of it truly resonates with the audience. So why not think about that delivery mechanism differently than a more traditional approach.

Kudos to you to already thinking outside the box in these areas. TBR is simply another and different way to think about training and audience engagement, absorption, and resonation.

Long-winded answer to go for it :) Good Luck!

Hi Maura,

I hope all is well.

I think the best and most engaging ways to learn agile is to (actually) take a class. I just took a two day Scrum master class in January that was fast paced but very engaging.

We learned agile concepts from a scrum master and product owners perspective by becoming a scrum master for a few hours and then switching over to product owner (role playing).

Of course, we also had people playing the development team as well. Planning poker is also a fun way to learn but you would most definitely need a team because playing by yourself would not be effective.