INNOVATION GAMES

Innovation games let customers engage other centers of their brain resulting in richer, deeper and more meaningful exchange of information. - Luke Hohmann -

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Group 8(TU Darmstadt, Germany) Khondakar Readul Islam Pham Duy Hoan Anh Quay Nguyen Hassam Chohan Sayed Abu Mohammad Irfan Kashan Ahmed

Agenda

• Why Innovation games?

• Introduction to innovation games

• Example of organizations who applied the Innovation games

• Benefits of Innovation games

• Introduction to game Buy a feature

• How to play?

• How it fits into the Scrum model ?

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Why Businesses or Projects Fail?

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85% of projects, services and

businesses fail !

No clear allotted concept No common or clear Priorities No centrifugal forces No shared vision

90% of companies are slow in launching

new products & services

Innovation Games “Innovations Games is a platform to play some serious fun games,

want to became successful in terms of Agile transformation.”

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Introduced by Luke Hohmann.

Fun way to get feedback from participants .

Helps us to focus, remember, decide, perform and learn.

Visual and experimental way of sharing thoughts.

64%

25%

11%

To Discover and Explore

Things we don’t know that we don’t know

Things we know that we don’t know

Things we know that we know

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Here

Why Innovation Games ?

To see the big picture and decide

Priorities emerge from discussion.

To have a clear understanding of the requirements

To figure out the current situtation about products, projects, services, benefits etc.

Enhance collaboration within the employees and stakeholders. 6

Some Popular Innovation Games are...

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Buy a feature Prune the Product Tree

Speed Boat Bang for the Buck

Organizations using this...

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• IT company in Hyderabad, India with more than 500 employees

• Conducted enterprise retrospective among employees to identify organizational impediments in processes and technology.

• CEO of zmags (a shoppable content company), Jens Karstoft needed a means to identify unmet market needs.

• Through several ideas of Innovation games, the company enhanced its growth by aligning the product team on unmet market needs.

Organizations using this...

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• Transamerica, an American insurance, investment and retirement firm

• The company wanted to improve their idea development processes

• Introduced both online and in person Innovation games to shape and nurture the company’s idea development processes.

Benefits

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Introduction to “Buy a Feature”

Simple & Effective Design

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Most desirable features for a given product

to get

1st, Prepare Your Features

• Features that have been suggested by users

• Features that have been implemented by rival products

• Features that have come out of user research

• Features that have been identified as desirable during a phase of market research

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user focused Max. 30 name &

description

appropriate price

presented as cards

2nd, Show me the Money

Too much

Too little

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3rd, Play!

• Small group: 4 – 6 people, or 1 to 1

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• You should play the “Shop Keeper” role answer any questions and take payment when a feature is purchased

• Players explain why they want that feature

• Game continues until all the money has been spent/ all the wanted features have been purchased

DEMO

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Total features cost: 3050 Player’s budget: 1500

How BaF Fits in SCRUM

• SCRUM involves 10 BASIC steps:

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• – Step #1: Get your backlog in order!

• – Step #2: How to estimate your product backlog

• – Step #3: Sprint Planning/clarify requirements

• – Step #4: Sprint Planning/estimate tasks

• – Step #5: Create a collaborative workspace

• – Step #6: Sprint!

• – Step #7: Stand up and be counted!

• – Step #8: Track progress with a daily burndown chart

• – Step #9: Finish when you said you would

• – Step #10: Review, reflect, repeat…

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How BaF benefits SCRUM

• The Product owner can effeicently prioritize the user stories in the backlog.

• The mainly focussed features can easily be highlighted by the user.

• Awarness of complexity in the features.

• Diligent team can be formed accordingly for the sprint.

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References

• http://www.innovationgames.com/

• http://www.slideshare.net/frederic.vandaele/fred-pbl-innovgames-en-v5-972003-26688212

• http://www.slideshare.net/emte69/innovation-games-the-seriously-fun-way-to-do-work

• http://www.slideshare.net/IsecIndia/agile-tour-delhi-ncr2014-agile-innovation-games-rahul-sudame

• http://www.allaboutagile.com/how-to-implement-scrum-in-10-easy-steps/

• https://gurtejpsingh.wordpress.com/category/scrum/scrum-master/

• http://www.plays-in-business.com/what-are-innovation-games-a-short-primer/

• http://www.uxforthemasses.com/buy-the-feature/ 20

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