program selection system

While delivering the Agile Mastery and Agile Estimation and Planning courses as part of Valtech’s Agile training programs, Tim developed the “Scrum Accelerator”, a simulation activity game. This is a very fun and a ‘generatively’ competitive training tool that re-enforces the scrum process and agile best practices. By using a timer to simulate the days in a sprint, a dice is rolled moving stories and tasks forward (and sometimes backwards!) through the scrum task board. Students maintain iteration burn downs at the end of each period of play, and release burn down bar charts each round. Players have to negotiate scope creep and experience first hand what empirical planning is all about, while having a heck of a lot of fun in the process.