AGILE GAMES

Destroy

AGILE GAMES

Destroy

Timing:

30-45 minutes

Materials:

Scissors

Glue-sticks

Magazines

Colouring pens/paints

Coloured paper

Other art/craft materials

Digital Camera and Printer (or pre-printed head and shoulders photographs of team members)

Instructions:

Take a ‘head-and-shoulders’ photograph of each team member and print out landscape

Ask each team member to “destroy” or augment their photograph so that it reflects their style or personality

Learning Points: 

  • This is a fun and creative way of learning about your team-mates
  • It is a great team-building exercise, especially useful for teams that are geographically distributed

Variations:

  • Draw names out of a hat and “destroy” someone else’s photograph to reflect what you know about them

This exercise was co-created as part of a collaboration day between myself and Paul Goddard and was inspired by the TV series “Jamie’s Dream School”. The episode this refers to can be found here

About Tasty Cupcakes

This content was originally published on Tasty Cupcakes, a community-run website founded by Michael McCullough and Don McGreal after they presented a series of games at Agile2008 in Toronto. The site’s tagline was “fuel for invention and learning.” After 15 years at TastyCupcakes.org, the content has found a new permanent home here at Agile Alliance.

The games, techniques, and approaches presented are here to use and explore. All we ask is that you tell others about us and give us some feedback on the games themselves. All of this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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