Lego City Scrum Workshop

I recently e-mailed my office e-mail list with links to a variety of Scrum training workshops, including Lego City. Well, it so happens Adam McLain, an iOS developer who also collects Legos, got very interested. He approached me about putting together a Scrum training workshop specifically based around the Lego City model. We then drafted Cyndy Eng-Dinsel, a QA agilist here, and we got started putting it together!


First off, we Googled it of course. We based our workshop on the model at http://www.agile42.com/training/scrum-lego-city/. But we made some important changes:

1. We updated the stories to reflect our city attributes here in Seattle. For example, one of the stories was to create a ferry and an associated dock. We ended up creating about 16 new stories.
2. We extended the actual task execution time in sprints from 5 minutes to 10 minutes. This gave more time for actual Lego play!
3. We created 4 new "event" cards. For example, 1 of the events was about 2 team members getting sick with the flu and being out for 5 minutes.

But in general we pretty much followed the guidelines as defined by agile42. All told, we did 4 sprints and the entire workshop took about 3.5 hours, including a general retrospective/discussion at the end. Overall, I think it was a smashing success! We are probably gonna end up doing it again. Check out these sweet pics:

Are these my co-workers actually working hard here? I guess all projects should involve Legos...

The finished metropolis. Awesome.

The Lego City crew. What what!

Thanks go to agile42, Adam for kicking this off, Cyndy for facilitating, and to the crew above for participating.