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Agile Games: Paper Airplanes 🛩

Brent Johnson
4 min readFeb 28, 2020

Paper airplanes aren’t just for kids. They can also help cement agile concepts for small or large groups.

The Overview

Teams will compete against each other by creating paper airplanes. Each team scores points when their airplane makes it past a set distance.

All of the teams will have three rounds made up of:

  1. Planning (3 minutes)
  2. Building (3 minutes)
  3. Retrospective (3 minutes)

The team with the most cumulative points through the three rounds wins!

Why?

Even something simple like paper airplanes can help teams understand some core concepts of agile processes. I’ve found this game helpful to explain:

  • Definition of Done (DOD)
  • Estimation
  • Incremental Improvement
  • Usefulness of Retrospective
  • Timeboxing (Sprints)

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Brent Johnson
Brent Johnson

Written by Brent Johnson

Brent is a SaaS general manager turned product leader. Director of Product Management @ Maple (www.getmaple.ca)

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