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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.

Modelling agile methods in the classroom also allows students to see the depth and power of agile methods as a general approach to working, and simultaneously confirms that the instructor actually walks the talk. In this workshop, attendees will explore using agile methods to deliver agile training. The first half will go through the methods used by Mishkin Berteig, an experienced agile trainer. These methods will be presented as a set of patterns. In the second half of the workshop participants will collaboratively discover and refine more patterns.