Agile Manifesto Bingo

Preparation

Timebox: 10 minutes.

• Print out the Agile Manifesto and principles and hand out a copy to everyone in the group.

Set the scene

Timebox: 10 minutes.

• Talk through the poster, the values and 12 principles.
• Discuss what each item means to the team in terms of expected behaviours.

Gather data

Timebox: 10 minutes

• Read out the first item in the Agile Manifesto’s principles
• Ask each person to consider if they saw something that another team member did in the last few weeks (or Sprint) that aligned with that item of the Manifesto.
• If someone did something that aligned with that manifesto item, write that person’s name and what they did on a sticky note.
• When you have written down 5 people’s names in total, call out BINGO!
• Keep going until all 12 items of the Manifesto have been read out or until someone has called out BINGO!

Generate insights

Timebox: 15 minutes.

• Start with the person whose called BINGO!
• Read out the names of the team members and what they did.
• Discuss the context of the instance. Use the Five Ws as a pattern – what, where, when, why, how.
• Identify the key behaviours the person did and the outcomes. What resulted from that behaviour?
• Discuss cause and effect of those behaviours. Is there a clear outcome when people behave in accordance with the agile manifesto?

Decide what to do

Timebox: 10 minutes.

• Identify some key cues that will help the team repeat the behaviour next time.
• Commit to repeating those next Sprint.
• Take these items into Sprint Planning an integrate it into the Sprint Plan.
• Reflect on these items at the next Retrospective.