‘Game without Thrones’ is a playful, intense, hands-on simulation using blocks. Game without Thrones is also the key training game in our eXponential Business Agility (XBAP) practitioner Certification course. It’s a Game without Thrones because of the self-organization rules. We use blocks and figurines to teach you how Agile Organizations work, with no command and control, but […]
What is “Heroes & Villains”
“Heroes & Villains” is a core Agile practices simulation game using Lego which forms part of our eXponential Agile Performance Practitioner (XAPP) Certification course. The simulation gives participants a hands-on experience of using some of the core Agile patterns taught in the XAPP course, including: Scrumban, a method which combines Kanban, the first and simplest Lean method, with […]
Thank you to our latest team of Castle Builders!
It was a great pleasure to host our second Game without Thrones evening in Zürich yesterday evening at the Volkshaus. We had a really energetic and enthusiastic team of castle builders who had their first introduction to the XSCALE framework for organisational agility. Once again, it was inspiring to see how a team of strangers […]
Agile principles: working software and business agility
The Manifesto for Agile Software Development (2001) identifies four key items which are highly valued in the effective delivery of software: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan The XSCALE Alliance for Agile Organisations adds an additional item to […]
The Principles of Agile Organisation – Continuous Throughput
In a previous post we introduced the second core principle of the XSCALE framework for Agile Organisations – Simple design, and described how an Agile Organization achieves eXponential return in the most efficient manner possible, so that our time, effort and money is invested in the product or service features that will deliver the best possible rate of […]