Tag: gamestorming
Work = Play: Activating fun through work
I have received quite some questions and remarks about the theme for this year's Work = Play conference. The theme is activating fun through work and a lot of people ask me: "Shouldn't it be the other way around, Activating work through fun?" And this is exactly what we want to counter with this year's conference. I have seen quite a few organisations where they...
First gamestorming retreat in our own training room
In case I didn't talk to you before now: Happy new year. I hope 2014 may bring you much learning and collaboration. During our first gamestorming retreat of 2014 we experimented with several different gamestorming techniques: How-Now-Wow matrix A different version of Dot Voting to try to avoid the influencing (more about that later) Code of conduct Job or joy 20/20 vision (Innovation games®) The anti...
WisP: the best of our Re:Think – Work = Play? conference
When our conference was over, we received loads of feedback from the attendees. What struck us most, was how some people were dissapointed that they had missed certain sessions. Based on the feedback and session rating, we gathered the 4 sessions that had had the most impact, and an idea lodged itself in the Co-Learning brain. Now we are ready to reveal the program, date...
Software craftsmanship round table v1
Just in time before the second round table, I will share with you a brief overview of how the evening went. We first started off visualizing all the different topics we wanted to talk about. We did a simple post up gamestorming technique followed by a silent sorting to cluster the topics. When everyone had a good overview of the different topics / questions at...
Prioritize with your stakeholders – Innovation Games® Buy a Feature
Back in the old days, I took up the role of a Agile Product Owner within a Healthcare environment and soon discovered that “responsible for setting priorities”, as it is announced in Agile literature, does not mean that doing it by yourself is the right approach. Not surprisingly, we see and hear about similar settings in other organizations: Product Owners or Project Managers that are...
Budget Games Kortrijk Ready, Set, Go…
In April we were happy to announce that we were supporting the City of Kortrijk to organize their own version of the Innovation Games ® – Budget Games and in the mean time lots of work has been done by City council members to prepare for this European scoop. If you do not know anything about Budget Games I would invite you to read our...