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The Power of Play: Transforming Agile Teams
Laura M. Powers Silicon Valley
@LauraPowers
PLAY
What were your favoriteways to play as a kid?
Now, as an “adult”?
Pair & Share
You can discover
more about a personin an hour of playthan in a year of
conversation.- Plato
PlayStuart
Brown, MD.
Why Play?Isn’t play
somethingfor kids?
Andadultstoo!
CreativityInnovation
AdaptabilityProblem-solving
Why
Prepares us for change
Play?
Makes “complex
social groups”possible
Why Play?
What is “Play”?
Photo credit: Rachel Davies
Play Activity outside ordinary life
Utterly absorbing & intense
With its own space & time Dutch Historian Johan Huizinga
Types of PlayPure Joy & Fun
“Soft”PeopleSkills
SkillBuilding
Sims
“Serious”
TheChallenge…
8 Play Personalities
Play Personality GameObjectives
Learn the 8 play personalitiesIdentify your top 2 play personalities
Have fun
Play Personality GameForm teams of 5 players &
send 1 representative to the front to get your game materials
Time Until Check-In
How wasthat?
Which are you?(your top 2)
Director
Kinesthete
Collector Competitor Creator
Joker
ExplorerStoryteller
The Joker
The Kinesthete
The Explorer
The Competitor
The Director
The Collector
The Creator
The Storyteller
Agile is about flow
You know that what you need to do is possible,
even though difficult, and sense of time disappears.
You forget yourself. You feel part of something larger.
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow GenomeProject
Steven Kotler
team flow
triggers10
10✓ Shared Goals✓ Serious Concentration✓ Good Communication✓ Familiarity✓ Equal Participation✓ Risk of failure✓ Sense of Control (autonomy & competence)✓ Close Listening (in the moment)✓ “Yes and”
team flow
triggers
What one thingcan you do to
bring more playto your work?
Pair & Share
3 Thoughts
Play. for you.
Bring “play”to your local
teamclimate.
as a team.Play.
“To love your game is to find the fun
in the game.”~Isabelle Hamptonstone
WHAT THE DUCKWhattheduck?
Hands-onActivitieswith6LEGO®DuckBricksBy:JacquelineLloydSmith
DeniseMeyerson& StephenWalling
Resources• Book: Play - Stuart Brown, MD• Book: What the Duck? - Jacqueline Lloyd Smith, Meyerson, Walling• Conteneo: Innovation Games• LEGO® Serious Play®
• Applied Improvisation Network• Your nearest 4 year old
Stats from AGW 2016 Number of Play Personalities• Collector - 2
• Competitor - 5
• Kinesthetic - 5
• Director - 5
• Storyteller - 6
• Joker - 8
• Creator - 10
• Explorer - 12
