Yesterday we had one of our regularly occurring so called Agile Lunch & Learn in the tribe at Spotify I currently work. We wanted to make the lunch about why it is often better not to work and focus on flow than to maximize your work and focus on resource efficiency. I searched for something in the Crisp bag of games. Pass the pennies – more about big batches. Kanban tothpicks – to many rounds and variables. Folding envelopes – again more batches. Eventually I found the Lean Dot game.
What a find! This game will be with me for a long time. The best flow game there is, with extremply simple props: post-it notes and colored dots. You can run it in an hour and get tons of experiences and stuff to discuss, such as:
- Why it’s better to slow down
- Adapt to bottlenecks
- Batch sizes
- Little’s law illustrated
- Waste and inventory
- Customer collaboration
- In process testing
- And more, and more, and more…
