Yes – the most effective workshop games reinforce agile values long after the session by creating emotional experiences that participants remember, practice, and reference in real work situations, such as the experiential games in the Agile Games Collection created by...
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The Hidden Wins of TDD: Focus, Sleep, and the Joy of Getting It Right
What Simple Exercises Stop People From Zoning Out In A Workshop?
The fastest way for trainers to boost engagement is to use short, plug-and-play experiential activities that require almost no setup and immediately pull participants into active learning, such as the ready-to-use games in the Agile Games Collection created by...
Why do participants lose attention during corporate workshops after 20 minutes, and how can I keep them engaged?
Participants lose attention after 20 minutes because the human brain is not designed for long periods of passive listening, and engagement rises only when people do something – which is why experiential techniques, interactive moments, and short games like those in...
What are the best interactive exercises for agile leadership workshops?
The best interactive exercises for agile leadership workshops are short, experiential games that mirror real leadership challenges and can be debriefed into concrete workplace behaviors – like the games in the Agile Games Collection created by Matthias Orgler. Most...
Why Most Teams Don’t Do TDD — And What It Costs Them
So You Think You’re Agile?
The Ladder That Separates the Pretenders from the Practitioners “We work in two-week sprints.”Cool. That’s not agility. I’ve heard it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. Teams slicing a twelve-month plan into two-week chunks and calling it agile. Managers proudly...
Inside the Red-Green-Refactor Cycle: A Ritual for Flow, Feedback, and Fearlessness
Vastly improve code quality and development speed with the proven red-green-refactor cycle – an extreme programming technique within TDD
The Story Point Illusion: Why “Per Person Velocity” is a Corporate Fairy Tale
Unpack the concept of story points and why measuring them per person is a misguided approach to team effectiveness.
If You Think TDD Means Automated Tests, You’re Missing the Point
Test-driven development is often confused with automated testing. But having automated tests is a far cry from the benefits of TDD