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Team Building Games for Remote Teams

Last post 11:24 am August 23, 2018 by Bharath Srinivasan
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Anuj Merchant
06:02 pm August 8, 2018

Hi All,

I am a Scrum Master managing multiple teams just like many of you. All the team members are located in different parts of the states as well as some of them are offshore and so, we depend heavily on WebEx calls for all the scrum ceremonies. I am looking for some ideas on games that I can use for team building. I recently tried  playing 'Find a Panda' game with them and they all loved it. Please share if anyone has any ideas. 

Thank you

Anuj Merchant 

Chris Belknap
09:26 pm August 8, 2018

Anuj - I commend you for wanting to do team building, which will help instill trust.  Building trust is even harder with distributed teams.  They are fortunate to have you as a Scrum Master.

Some ideas - if you google them you will find some details and examples:

  • 2 Truths and a Lie
  • Market of Skills
  • Personal Maps from Management 3.0 using a mind mapping format (see mindmeister,com or lucichart.com)

Take a look at tastycupcakes.org for some more ideas.  Inspect and adapt, some will work better than others.

All the best,

Chris

Anuj Merchant
12:50 am August 9, 2018

Thank you Chris for the response, I am definitely going to check them out and try in one of my team breakout sessions during PI Planning coming up. I will reply back to the post to tell you how did it go. :)

Bharath Srinivasan
11:24 am August 23, 2018

Great Chris, Thank s for this valuable inputs.

I have applied lot of game based learning from tastycupcakes - it really awesome.

+ some other things that have helped me are :

- funretrospectives.com

- gamestorming.com

- Gamestroming book by Dave Gray and Sunni Brown is another practical high value learning for any agile practitioner

 

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