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The background of the game happens in a 脫毛膏的效果如何software company. In addition to daily development work and fixed lead times, as the game progresses, different events will occur to test the player's decision and feel the subsequent impact.

After the game through the instructor's instructions, the use of the game process as a foundation, so that lecturers and trainees in the same context to explore the core of kanban method and practice.

I played this game with Kanban certification course and Scrum Gathering 2014 in June 2014. Through it, let me have a profile of how Kanban operates as a whole and use that as a starting point to continue thinking deeply about topics of interest.

It has been more than a dozen times since the workshop was held over the course of more than a year now, and it is now more and more exciting and practical to have fun with this game.

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▲ game in progress.

I think using GetKanban Kanban board to learn Kanban, the following benefits:

Interesting fun

Because using dice decides the actual amount of work, so the hand has become a part of the game. I often play half to hear the whole group laughing or shouting, you can probably guess they are not thrown to the maximum is to zero. There was even a time when a trainee asked us to provide a bowl of rice, which directly affected the XD.

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▲ collapsing zero! ! !

Directly simulate the software development situation, great feeling

There are many free kanban games on the internet, such as Kanban Pizza Game, folding planes, flip coins and more. The purpose of this type of game is mostly simple, because small topics allow you to pull yourself out of another situation to understand its spirit, such as visualization processes, WIP limits, Push / Pull differences, and more. In some games I find it useful to explain specific concepts but still require the listeners to map themselves to the corresponding scene. So this game directly to provide a specific software development scene, allowing students to focus more on thinking in this area, and get a comprehensive experience.

Do not need background knowledge in advance

Can play even if you do not know Agile / Lean / Kanban, just roll the dice (which is very important! XD), draw lines and add, subtract, multiply and divide. However, after the game is over, you need to have a professional explanation so that it will not only be fun.

Three game modes

There are Quick Play, Standard, Advanced three modes, according to different learning objectives and the length of time to choose the right game.

Daily event card

In order to make the situation richer, so the game designed the event card. The game will change with the daily evolution and the corresponding learning objectives. Including and external units, the relationship between upstream and downstream and so on.

Various categories of Work Item

Provide Standard, Fixed Date, Urgent, Intangible, players can schedule their own work (and bear the consequences of XD)

Provide chart records

The game process needs to draw three tables (CFD, Control Chart, Lead Time Distribution Chart), after the game can be analyzed and discussed. Metrics are tools that are easily overlooked but actually useful in Kanban.

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▲ in the game draw the cumulative flow chart (Cumulative Flow Diagram)

But at the same time there are some disadvantages:

Tedious rules, explain time-consuming

In order to simulate the development of the situation and cover different events, the final measurement results observed, so before the game must allow students to clearly understand the rules. With my current experience, use the official Facilitator's Guide to explain with the question and answer for half an hour. Also because the game process is different for each player, often have a variety of unexpected play, or even been asked Guide did not write the rules, this time also rely on Facilitator Kanban with the game design understanding of the interpretation.

And according to later experience, there are rules that do not match the spirit of the kanban itself, and later I wrote a letter specifically to ask the game design company, and sure enough, the bug was removed in the fifth edition :)

Scene limited to software development

In fact, this is very subtle, but also advantages and disadvantages. Although the player background is not particularly limited. But previous experience If you are unfamiliar with the software development process, you may have different judgments about choosing a Work Item, such as not understanding the usefulness of automated testing and automated deployment, so choose not to do it. Of course, both do and do not have their own consequences, at the end of the game there will be an explanation. So on this point I personally think that if you really want to know kanban method is completely unfamiliar with software development, is still worth playing.