This activity is designed to help improve awareness of:
The Agile Manifesto
What activities and behaviours the team has done that align to the Agile Manifesto and its principles
Activity: Agile Manifesto Bingo
Timebox: 45 minutes
This activity can be run as a Retrospective or team training event.
What you’ll need
Agile Manifesto poster (download below).
A reward. Below is a certificate to give to those who act according to the Agile Manifesto (download below). Use the certificate, make your own, or provide some kind of reward. Behaviours that are rewarded are more likely to occur in the future.
Sticky-notes.
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.
Download Agile Manifesto Poster (A4)
Download the Agile Manifesto poster to use with this Retrospective.