Allie Brock - Making training serious fun

Making Agile serious fun!

@brocknroller#agcym16

Allie Brock

Business analyst

Product owner

Agile coach

Roller derby player!

FACTTraining courses are boring

People forget 40% of what they learned after 20 minutes

http://willthalheimer.typepad.com/files/how-much-do-people-forget-v12-14-2010.pdf

People forget 77% of what they learned after six days

http://willthalheimer.typepad.com/files/how-much-do-people-forget-v12-14-2010.pdf

People forget 90% of what they learned after one month

http://willthalheimer.typepad.com/files/how-much-do-people-forget-v12-14-2010.pdf

AGILE

How do people learn?

Visual Auditory

Reading Kinesthetic

http://vark-learn.com/

Visual Auditory

Reading KinestheticOver 50%

http://vark-learn.com/

“People are 3 times more likely to learn and retain knowledge through playing games”

Alvin Toffler - The Third Wave

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Highhttp://www.mycoracle.com/news/opinions/differences-between-active-and-passive-learning

Teach others

Practise doing

Discussion

Demonstration

Audiovisual

Reading

Lecture

“Tell me and I forget.“Teach me and I may remember.“Involve me and I learn.”

Benjamin Franklin

AGILE

http://tastycupcakes.org/2012/02/you-sunk-my-methodology/

Let’s play Battleships!

How to play● Split group into two teams (Team A and Team B)

● Both teams have 2 minutes to plan their ship placement (horizontal or vertical - no diagonal placement). 18 markers, top grid

● Team A then have 5 minutes to plan their hits up front. 30 hits, bottom grid

● Team A then relay their planned hits to Team B.

● Team B reply with miss/hit/hit and sunk.

● Team B then have 5 minutes to play each of their 30 hits, and receive feedback from Team A after each hit

The results!

Questions?

www.boxuk.com/agilecymru

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