Going crazy with all the distraction and disruptions in your remote meetings? With a bit of creativity and fun, you can keep your virtual meetings on track.
Find activities, games and tips
The Agile agenda
Display your agenda as a backlog – great way to visualise the topics, easy to respond to changes, and get a sense of progress through-out the session.
Ball Point Game
When introducing iterative ways of working (eg Scrum). Highlights the benefits of early feedback, self-organisation, collaboration, flow and sustainable pace.
My Office
Get all the common benefits of an icebreaker. Plus create a better understanding of the different work environments in your virtual workshop or meeting with remote team members.
Snowball Fight
An excellent way to end a day of workshops or training – a bit fun as well as ensuring everyone can contribute with feedback.
Christmas Tree Retro
For one of the last meetings of the year, run the Christmas Tree Retro to reflect on the year that has passed and add to the Christmas decorations in the process.
Christmas Stockings
End the year on a positive note — this is a nice way to give kudos for achievements during the year. Give and receive positive feedback or well-wishes by ‘post-it presents’ for the whole the team.
Play with remote participants
If you’re not all in the same location, you can still run games, collaborative activities and creative sessions. In fact, engagement and team bonding might be even more crucial in your workshop.
Collaborative Portrait
This is an activity great for team bonding and a laugh. The participants collaboratively make drawings of each other’s faces. Use the artwork to decorate the team area.
Make a Scene
When you want to improve your ability to deal with uncertainty, lessen the fear of looking silly. Activity for established teams or ice-breaker for a play-friendly group.
Jellyfish Card
A quick, creative activity introducing a light-hearted way to keep your session focused on your topic.
Remove permanent marker lines
Did someone draw on the whiteboard with a sharpie? No worries, you can easily fix it by using a normal whiteboard marker.
Circle Creativity Game
When you want to warm-up for a session needing creativity and problem-solving. It can help identify your natural limitations and highlight how working as a group increases the number of solutions.
Challenging Assumptions Puzzle
When you want to be in the best space for problem-solving, this activity can help you identify your assumptions, and realise that they may not always be correct or even helpful.
Ranking Game
When you want to bring energy and movement into the room. Great icebreaker for a new group or way for an established team to share and learn.
Peel a post-it
Tired of post-its falling off the wall 5 minutes after you put them on there? There is a trick to make the post-its stick for longer, and it is all in the way you peel..
Squiggle to Story
This is a great warm-up before a creative session. It can highlight that collaboration can lead to unexpected and pretty awesome outcomes. No drawing skills required.
Name & Dance
Want to speed up the process of everyone in the group learning each other’s names? This is a fun activity for both learning names and getting the energy levels up.
The Creative Zoo
When introducing collaborative design, lean UX, and customer centred design. But also for reinforcing concepts such as cross-functional teams, collaboration and incremental delivery.
Speed breaking
This is a fun and energetic activity used for speeding up the process of getting to know each other – inspired by the speed dating technique.
Human Knot
When you want to strengthen team bonding, getting a new team together, or you think that collaboration could do with an improvement. Observe any patterns in team communication.
Agile Manifesto Puzzle
Simple exercise to introduce the agile manifesto, giving you an opportunity to discuss the statements and agile values in more detail, but also observe the groups current understanding.
Storytelling Cubes
When you want the group to learn more about each other, get oxytocin flowing to increase trust and empathy. Use a set of story cubes and let the images inspire your story-telling.
Whose is it?
This is a quick icebreaker and simple team building activity you can do in both in a virtual or in-person setting.
Paper Clip Test
When you want the creative juices flowing before an innovative or problem-solving session. A simple activity to identify your natural limitations and highlight how working as a group increases the number of solutions.
Ball Point Game – Hybrid
Group: 5-anyTime: ~1 hourWhen & WhatThis is a great game when introducing iterative ways of working, such as Scrum. It highlights the benefits not only of early feedback loops, but also the importance of collaboration, self-organisation and working together as a...
Ball Point Game – Remote
Group: 5-anyTime: ~1 hourWhen & WhatThis is a great game when introducing iterative ways of working, such as Scrum. It highlights the benefits not only of early feedback loops, but also the importance of collaboration, self-organisation and working together as a...