I was inspired recently by a twitter post from Elizabeth Hendricks where she said she was working on an impediments game. I thought that was an absolutely wonderful idea, so I wanted to take a swing at it myself. Once I finally managed to summon the courage to try I sat down and put together a preliminary set of rules. Here is my first attempt (first iteration): Overall the game is organized as a straightforward racetrack, first-to-finish objective. Gameplay is in rounds, whe

The new school year is beginning and my daughter is starting first grade. I had an opportunity to go to her elementary school open house the other day. A word to the wise: never let an Agile development geek into a first grade classroom. I thought I had died and gone to information heaven. I took a camera with me and took some pictures of the kinds of information that they put on the walls in a children’s classroom. It was amazing! In the meantime, my wife fervently denied th

What’s up with the cupcakes? So there was this wacky little session at Agile Roots 2009 that I really enjoyed that was put on by Chris Sims. It was called “Agile Learning Games”. It was one of those sessions where everyone gets to try out the games as a participant and get a feel for the kind of learning that takes place. I loved the games that he chose to demonstrate, and he was kind enough to provide some references for places that you could look for more learning games – o

Alastair Cockburn gave the opening keynote speech for the conference. He mentioned that the conference was a product of a local user group called the Salt Lake Agile Round Table. I looked it up and here is where you can find more information if you are interested: http://alistair.cockburn.us/Salt+lake+city If you live in Utah, you are very lucky to have a high powered group like this around. You can also find likes to other agile groups in the area as well as their mailing li