Agile Dev East 2017 Concurrent Session : Discover Your Team’s Values with LEGO® Serious Play®

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Thursday, November 9, 2017 - 11:30am to 12:30pm

Discover Your Team’s Values with LEGO® Serious Play®

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Creating a cohesive team doesn’t require knowledge of dark arts or forbidden rituals. In fact, under the right circumstances, it can even be fun! Using exercises built around the LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) methodologies, Paul Wynia explores techniques that ensure full team engagement and collaboration resulting in more meaningful discussions. Working as teams, discover Team Values using a series of individual and collaborative LSP builds. Once the Team Values are defined, use them to guide your team’s behaviors. These are finally turned into the Team Working Agreement, a powerful tool for teams, that can be useful in agile retrospectives and conflict management as part of a team’s self-governance. Throughout the exercises, we focus on outcomes that encourage open, honest, and respectful communication. We ensure that the Team Working Agreement, an agile document, remains flexible and can be modified by the team at any time. Join Paul for some serious fun!

Paul Wynia
Strategic Play USA

Paul Wynia is an agile coach and consultant with twenty years of software industry experience including running his own company, Work Agile Consulting. Paul is a licensed trainer of the Lego® Serious Play® methodologies with Strategic Play, USA, and a certified trainer for Training from the Back of the Room. Using agile games and simulations, Paul helps teams explore new ways to collaborate, create, and innovate while focusing on continually delivering value through a blend of agile methodologies. He co-hosts the Agile Games podcast and co-chairs the annual Agile Games West conference. Contact Paul at [email protected] or on Twitter @workagile.