Re: Executive Game Icebreaker

I mean, find out what precipitated their move to bring you on board to do
Scrum.

They were doing something before?  Did they not do software development
before?  Maybe they tried Scrum before and it didn't work?

Your original email suggested to me they're going to scrum from something
else.  Find out what that something else was, what didn't work, and what
precipitated their decision to do something else.

I'm sure you'll get the usual, "Stuff wasn't getting done...  Wasn't
getting done fast enough..."

Too many places I've worked have "decided to go agile" and "to use scrum"
but then never had the discipline to follow through.  They thought that by
calling something that they did "agile" without actually doing agile would
somehow magically confer benefits when they had unrealistic expectations
and refused to be disciplined about how they pursued using the process.

Maybe you can ferret that sorry of thing out...

Best,
-Zander
On Sep 29, 2015 5:29 PM, "Michael Wollin [email protected]
[SCRUMDEVELOPMENT]" <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Journey lines? Or what do you mean, Zandler?
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> On Sep 29, 2015, at 8:24 PM, 'Zander Collier, III' [email protected]
> [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> You might want to consider taking them through an exercise of how they got
> to where they are
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> That might reveal a lot without them thinking that you're getting them to
> reveal their concerns.
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> Best,
> -Zander
> On Sep 29, 2015 4:04 PM, "Michael Wollin [email protected]
> [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT]" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Leading a two hour workshop tomorrow to executives at my client about
>> their agile transformation I am shepherding. Any suggestions on a good and
>> short ice breaker game? I thought about "Pocket Manifesto " but I'm not
>> teaching agile as much as I'm discovering their concerns.
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