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Toby Sinclair

8 Virtual Agile Training Activities to Teach Scrum | Using Miro and Kahoot!

Updated: Jun 18, 2021


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Facilitating Virtual Training and Workshops?


Here is a collection of virtual training activities that can maximise engagement at your next agile training workshop.


Facilitator Techniques:

Agile Training Games:

Virtual Coaching Exercises:

  1. Fear Setting - Helping people overcome fears that are holding them back

  2. Wheel of Life - Examine the impact a decision might have on your life

  3. Tiny Habits - A framework to help people build and break habits

  4. Vision Chairs - Inspire action towards a goal

  5. Improvement Canvas - Help an organisation or team find a path towards their vision


3 books to help design your own virtual agile games



 

Take a seat in the virtual classroom


A simple technique to create a sense of physical space in the virtual space. Add a selection of chairs to your virtual board and ask participants to place a post-it note with their name on the chair as they arrive. A great icebreaker at the start of the session to create a personal connection.

Chair Facilitation Game

Thank You, Steve Hoyler, for the inspiration


Organising Virtual Teams


When facilitating multi-day, multi-team sessions on a board like Miro, create “team zones” with all the exercises relating to that team.


I’ve found it makes it easier for teams to find their exercises and creates an identity for the team. Colour coding makes it clearer and can also be used for team name “Red Team”

You can also use the Frames selector to quickly move between the team areas.

Self Organising Teams


Virtual Ball Toss using Wheel Decide


Ball Toss is a great way in person to get insights from people in the room. To recreate this experience I’ve used Wheel Decide. Add all the participant's names to the wheel. In a debrief discussion, spin the wheel and ask the person it lands on to share their insights.


Wheel Decide


Scrum Roles and Responsibilities Game


Easily facilitated in Miro!


Scrum Roles and Responsibility Game


Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Principles Card Sort


A simple card sort exercise to help participants get familiar with the principles of LeSS. Participants match the title of the principle with description. Miro is great for any kind of card-sort exercise

Large Scale Scrum Principles Game


Systems Modelling (Causal Loop Diagrams)


I’ve used Miro extensively for systems modelling and can be used easily in a training setting too. You may want to ask folks to get familiar with connection lines prior to the exercise: https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017730733-Connection-Lines 

Systems Thinking Game


Constellations


This can be a great way to see how people relate to different topics. In this example with Miro, you place a topic in the middle, e.g conflict, and ask people to position their post-it note in relation to it. Closer to middle = comfortable with handling conflict, Closer to edge = uncomfortable with conflict

Constellations Game


Scrum Myth or Fact


Myth or Fact is a great connection activity when exploring any topic. I use it regularly in agile training sessions to tap into the wisdom of the crowd. Can be scaled up to many people.

Kahoot is my favourite form any quiz activities such as Myth or Fact.

You can find an example to my quiz here


Scrum Kahoot Game


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