When massive multiplayer online gamers work together as a team (called “Raids”) to defeat fantasy targets (called “Bosses”) they are repeatedly performing the steps of a Lean Startup – Build, Measure and Learn. For raiders, “build” is working together to achieve the desired outcome of defeating the boss. They have a meta hypothesis – that …
In a previous post I shared my wonderment of how teams work hard to reach peak performance when they cannot see each other in the gaming world. I see great synergies here with Agile – how different is it when software development is done in a distributed or offshore manner? Let’s take a look at the techniques gaming …
I posted recently about my fascination with online role playing games and how some of what intrigues me is around the area of incentives. This has had a bit of attention in the Agile space with Daniel Pink covering off motivation in his book ‘Drive’ but for the quick versions you can see his TED …
One of the first few comments to my partner after I touched down back into Brisbane last night was ‘Gosh I’m buggered. It’s been such a long week!’ He smirked at me and shyly commented ‘Monday was a public holiday. And you still have to work tomorrow.’ Was it really just two days? It felt …
Okay so I don’t get asked this question enough but feel a need to justify it to some extent because I am tremendously passionate about it. Why am I, an Agile Coach, so fascinated with MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games)? At its heart the reason is fairly simple – because behaviour is unconstrained, and …
Over ten years ago I vividly remember the first moment I saw ‘Safe to fail.’ I was working for a large scale telecommunications organisation. Most of us working there were pretty young. With our youth came inexperience. I learnt that through a project re-assignment I was going to have a new manager and was anxious of …
