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Drawing from the art of improvisation, Agile coaches Jim York and Tobias Mayer lead this fun and fast moving session to explore healthy and innovative ways of communicating and collaborating. Many Agile teams suffer from dysfunctional interpersonal communication born of learned “bad” behaviors. These stifling exchanges keep individuals entrenched in old ideas and inhibit forward progress.

Improv theatre is acting without preparation and without a net; given a situation, improv challenges you to participate in a new reality on the spot. As such, it’s a powerful means of learning, and exploring, stimulating creativity, engaging in rapid decision-making, and building empathy-all skills that come into play in agile development projects. In this session, we’ll scratch the surface of improvisational theatre through a series of simple exercises and games. Session attendees are strongly encouraged to participate or simply to observe as their comfort level permits