​Scrum in ​practice - Mine4Scrum 

​Discover remote workshops combining practical Scrum learning with team integration.

​​Scrum in practice - Mine4Scrum 

​​Mine 4 Scrum is a virtual reality computer game where participants take on the role of Developers building SnowTown. Players have the opportunity to jointly plan their work with the Product Owner, experience self-organization, and enjoy completing the buildings and structures required by the investor. The workshop scenario allows participants to better understand Scrum and discover mechanisms that increase team efficiency.

See for yourself by watching a short video from the workshops!

​Training dates

​Training for all agile teams and roles supporting agile teams: Developer, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Team Leader, Head of Agile, managers contributing to an agile workflow

  • ​Intensive 4-hour online workshop
  • Language: Polish or English

​No dates for open training, only individual offer

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​Training program

​​In the game, we can practice various variations, try to solve specific problems that the team experiences in their daily work. With Mine 4 Scrum, we can also safely practice planned organizational changes. That's why the workshops cover issues such as:

  • ​ ​​​Definition of Done - to better understand why DoD is important and the risks of not completing it
  • ​Refinement - ​Why it's important, how to do it right, and what happens when we start a Sprint without knowing enough about what needs to be done 
  • ​Priority - ​​Participants have the opportunity to experience working in an environment without priorities and with well-known priorities. Will you find at the end that you worked better and got more done with clear priors?
  • Flow - ​A workshop demonstrating the effects of optimizing for people utilization (everyone is busy) vs. optimizing for value delivery. Which approach will prove better?
  • Scrum Scaled  - ​The workshop will allow you to face the problem of scaling under safe conditions of computer games
  • Team Integration -​A scenario with a strong emphasis on team collaboration requires efficient communication and building trust. Great for new teams or teams struggling with individualism (lack of willingness to cooperate)

​behaviors
Scrum is based much more on behavior than on process. Proper behaviors allow for much faster and better adaptation of practices, tools, and techniques to a specific organization. During the Mine 4 Scrum workshops, we place a strong emphasis on exercising proper behaviors, which in turn will result in a better understanding of Scrum and its implementation in the organization.

​communication styles
​In Mine 4 Scrum, communication cannot be avoided, so during the game we pay attention to communication styles and encourage participants to evaluate the effectiveness of communication during their teamwork. The conclusions from the workshop summary can improve communication in the team's real-life challenges.

​group process
​Every group made up of several people working together for some time goes through similar stages, which we call group development phases. Mine 4 Scrum is such a stimulating experience for the team that it is able to quickly reach the level of constructive work.

​dead Scrum
​In many organizations, Scrum is just a set of roles and meetings played without much understanding of the purpose and meaning of each element of the framework. Mine 4 Scrum gives new meaning to each role and each event, highlighting what is most important in the Scrum being used.

practical Scrum learning

​​Experience-based, examples from life, and discussion-driven. Offering the opportunity to practice attitudes and behaviors in practice. It's also a training of real-life cases in a virtual game. 

What you will gain: 
- Experience Scrum in practice 
- Find out if Scrum is for you.

​​simulation game

​Intense one-day online workshops where 95% of the meeting time is practice and 5% is theory. Participants learn through action, not presentations or lectures. They will experience working in a Scrum team and discover what Scrum values, events and roles are in reality. 

What you will gain: 
- Experiences based on real-life examples

​team-building

​Regardless of whether the group is cohesive or not, through the training, members have the opportunity to start working as a real team, support each other, and rely on each other. 

What you will gain: 
- practicing teamwork and communication.

integration

​Opportunity to integrate dispersed teams through great fun and team building exercises. 

What you will gain: 
- great fun
- wonderful memories as a team

​The workshops are dedicated to:

  • ​Managers, Team Leads, Directors, to showcase the efficiency of a self-organizing Scrum team
  • Scrum Masters/Agile Coaches, to provide material for further work with the company and teams
  • Stakeholders, to demonstrate the value that Scrum provides and the benefits it brings
  • Newcomers, to quickly experience how Scrum works
  • Everyone, to attractively engage with the topic of Scrum.

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Trainers

agileFit - ​our duo Marcin Kępka and Mariusz Baranowski. We are practitioners who want to share our knowledge and experience with the Agile community. Challenging questions and unconventional ideas are our strength that drives us and our teams to victory.

Marcin Kępka

​Agile Coach & Scrum Master with a heart for people and patience for change. 

With over 20 years of experience in the software development industry, I have had the opportunity to assist many teams on their journey to efficiency through a holistic view of the production process and our human, sometimes forgotten, needs.

Mariusz Baranowski

​​Certified Scrum Master & Agile freak. 

I create cohesive and motivated teams capable of facing business challenges. That's why I help teams discover the potential within them and release the energy needed to achieve their goals.

You can find out more about us on our website.

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faq

​What is the training program?
  • Each participant downloads the game to his or her computer
  • We log into the virtual world
  • Training on how to use the game and explanation of the rules (beginners will also manage to master the basics)
  • We begin iterative construction of the town of SnowTown according to a predetermined scenario
  • Summary of the game, discussion of conclusions that can be transferred to the real world
  • Commemorative photos at the most interesting buildings


​How many people can participate in the workshop?
  • If you want to practice pure Scrum with one team, we recommend the limits from the Scrum Guide, i.e. up to 10 Developers.
  • In the case of a game involving a larger team or multiple teams at the same time, we will prepare a dedicated scenario for the workshop.


​What other workshop scenarios are possible?
  • Waterfall vs. Scrum
  • self-organization vs. work management by a manager
  • component teams vs. interdisciplinary teams
  • teams limited by external dependencies
  • several teams working on one product (scalability)
  • working in a large team vs. working in a small team
  • working with an awareness of the goal and mission vs. working without a clear goal
  • working with the kanban method
  • estimation and forecasting
  • Definition of Done and Definition of Ready
​Is this only for advanced computer gamers?
  • The workshop is for everyone, even if you have never played/played computer games and don't know if you can handle it.
  • The workshop provides training on how to move in the game and build breathtaking objects.
​What are the hardware requirements?
  • Before the workshop, each participant will receive in advance instructions for installing the game.
  • During the workshop each participant must have a computer connected to the Internet.
  •  We will be using MS Teams for communication.
  • The online game in which we will build a town has very low hardware requirements, and can run on both Windows (starting from XP to Windows 10) and OS (minimum 10.8) computers. Due to numerous problems with the game on Apple computers, we do not recommend using them without prior testing.
  • NOTE: the game does not require administrator privileges, just upload it to a directory (portable version). License: open source (MIT)
  • The installed game will also be available for participants to use after the workshop.
​In what language can the workshops be conducted ?

Mine 4 Scrum workshops can be conducted in Polish or English.

Questions

​In the game we can train different variations, try to solve specific problems experienced by the team in daily work. With Scrum in practice - Mine4Scrum we can also practice planned organizational changes in a safe environment.

Go ahead and write to us, we will be happy to answer any of your questions!

agileFit
Marcin Kępka & Mariusz Baranowski

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