Agile Articles
LEGO© exercises
Most of these exercises have been jointly developed by Mike Bowler of Gargoyle Software and Bryan Beecham of Iceberg Ideas. The collaboration exercise was heavily influenced by Ellen Grove of Agile Partnership. All of these are used by Mike and Bryan in classes they teach and conference sessions they’ve given around the world. Bryan created the original TDD and refactoring exercises and then together they’ve created even more.
You are welcome to use these exercises. All we ask is that you give us credit as the creators. Links to our sites or our twitter handles would be great (@mike_bowler, @BillyGarnet and @eegrove). Let us know how these exercises worked for you. If you’ve made changes then we’d love to hear what you did and how they worked.
- Simplicity
- Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Technical Debt
- Continuous Integration
- Clean Code
- Collaboration
See also these interviews where Mike or Bryan discuss the excercises and how they’re used.
Handouts
These are handouts we use when teaching our workshops and training classes. We make no guarantee that any of them make any sense on their own so you should come to our workshops!
LEGO© Serious Play©
- Team Working Agreements using LEGO© Serious Play©
- Moose on the Table Retrospective using LEGO© Serious Play©
- Explorer Bag Contents We use the Windows Exploration Bag extensively in our workshops and it can be challenging to re-sort them back into their bags at the end. So we’ve created a template (more precisely a “poka-yoke”) to help with this. Place all the bricks down on their pictures and when the sheet is full, you have one complete bag.
XP Practices / Technical content
- CSD Workbook For the Certified Scrum Developer class
- Continuous Delivery: Getting there from here
Teams / Collaboration
- Running with the Mob Introduction to Mob Programming
- Team Performance Considerations when building teams