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Lean Start Ups & Innovation Games

Innovation Games

Short introduction to Innovation Games® and examples of their application in Lean and Lean StartUps: Reduce Waste, Value Stream Mapping, and Minimum Viable Product. »

Xing Agile User Group Rhein-Main Meeting: “Innovation Games”

Agile Games; Copyright: ebgconsulting.com

In August 2012 Michael gave a teaser evening in Innovation Games™ for the Xing Agile User Group Rhein-Main. This presentation was featured on the SlideShare homepage at 19. Aug. 2012 for 24h. »

All Work, No Play — LEGO Serious Play™

The LEGO Serious Plays™ Method

LEGO Serious Play is a tool that lets your mind form and organise new thoughts. The LEGO Serious Play process uses LEGO bricks to create metaphors for real business issues which allows you and your team to visualize situations and address complex issues without simplifying or losing the important details. »

Stuart Brown: Why Playing is vital?

Playing Ice Bear

Why is playing so important? — Because this can make us smarter at any age! But play is anything but trivial. It is a biological drive as integral to our health as sleep or nutrition. Play is essential to develope social skills and adult problem solving skills. We are designed by nature to flourish through play. In the following TedX video, Dr. Stuart Brown, founder of the US National Institute for Play, illustrates why playing is essential. »

Innovation Games

Agile Games; Copyright: ebgconsulting.com

In Feb 2012 Michael became a Trained Innovation Games® Facilitator. Innovation Games are fun undiluted! Originated stemming from primary market research oriented games, Innovation Games are creativity and problem solution games. They are structured and moderated functional-crossed group excerices (up to 60 participants), i.e. developers, customers, designers, marketing guys, product managers. In Innovation Games customers play a set of directed games as a means of generating feedback about a product or service. Typically, innovation games are used for such things as portfolio management, requirements management and any number of tasks that require innovative thinking, brainstorming and collaboration. »

Agiles Games

Jonglage

Agile Games are not only fun stuff. Play is a profoundly powerful tool to achieve business results. Agile Games are serious tools to solve issues in management, product development and team building. The term “agile” is more about delivering the highest business value possible faster by focusing on people and continuous improvement. In fact, Agile Games are a kind of facilitated workshops ranging from group exercises (lasting from 10min, 20min, or 30min,…) up to full-fledged team workshops which may last several hours or days. The “players”, i.e. the workshop participants, are a selected group of stakeholders, including customers and subject matter experts. All work together to discover, create, verify, and document predefined deliverables. »