Do your teams struggle with silos, multitasking, under performing, and not truly swarming to work with an understanding of shared responsibility Based on the Swedish public domain game "Yatzy", we turn a familiar roll of the dice into a team building, learning exercise. This game is designed to not just talk, not just show, but to deliver a firsthand experience of what works and what doesn't in terms of incremental delivery.

1. Coaching Your Teams to Swarm to
Performing in a Single Game!
PRESENTED BY Mark S. Carroll, PMP,
SPC

2. Experience: 15+ years in Senior IT
Leadership, Project Management and
Coach. 10+ years in Agile
Specialties: Agile Portfolio Management,
Scaled Agile Framework
Education: Liberal Arts (James Madison)
Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Management,
Consultant
Mark S. Carroll, PMP SPC

3.  Product Owner
 Keeps Score
 Scrum Master
 Keeps Order
 Developer A, Developer B,
& Developer C
 Roll the dice in turn
Each Table

4. Score Board
Developer A
(their name)
Ace’s X
Two’s
Developer B
(their name)
Three’s X X X
Four’s
Developer C
(their name)
Five’s
Six’s X X

5. Record Times
Round One Round Two Round Three
Developer A
(their name)
5:00:35
Developer B
(their name)
4:35:21
Developer C
(their name)
8:20:18

6.  Designate the Rolling Spot at your tables
 Three rolls per Developer
 Developers A, B, & C line up from right to left
 At the end of your turn, step back
 Then move to the right of the line
 Leave the dice on the table in the same spot
 The next person steps to the left into the Rolling Spot
Assembly Line Style

7.  Shake no more than three times
 DO NOT roll onto tables
 Gently place shaken dice on table
How to Roll Dice

8. o We are used to Head-to-Head
Competition
o How can we adjust this tendency
to a team centric view?
Team Work in a Competitive World

9.  Work as a team
 Minimize distractions
 Maximize the amount of
work not done
 Manage WIP, as a team,
impactfully.
The Challenge

10. What is the cost of Multitasking?

11. What is the true cost of Multitasking or Context Switching?
Which is more dangerous texting while driving or drunk driving?
According to a study by ‘Car and Driver’, when subjects drove 70mph on a deserted
air strip and were tested on how quickly they could break the results showed:
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/texting-while-driving-how-dangerous-is-it
Context Switching
Condition Reaction
Unimpaired 0.54 seconds to brake
Legally drunk add 4 feet
Reading an email add 36 feet
Sending a text add 70 feet

12. Three Players
Round One: Head-to-head with cumulative rolls from previous
turns. Each player is assigned three dice (for Context Switching) &
three rolls. Valid rolls are split between assigned sections.
Keepers are kept to the side per turn.
Round Two: Head-to-head with cumulative rolls from previous
turns. Each player is assigned 5 dice (Single Tasking) & three rolls.
Can only roll for one Dice Number at a time (no context switching).
Keepers are kept to the side per turn.
Round Three: Combined, team effort with cumulative rolls from
previous turns. Any player can apply any rolls to any players
current Dice Number. Keepers are kept to the side per turn.
Bonus: Can your team roll a Full House and/or a Large Straight?
Yahtzy Kanban!

13. Round One Scenarios
 Starting with Three Dice
 Developer A rolls an Ace on her first roll
 The ”Keeper” die is put to the side
 Rolls two dice on her second roll but doesn’t get any
keepers
 She rolls for a third time the two dice, no keepers
 End of her turn, the one Ace is credit to the Score
Board with an “X” on her Ace’s row
 After Developers B & C finish their turns, Developer A is
up again
 On her first roll she rolls two Aces
 The two “Keeper” dice are put to the side
 Rolls one die on her second roll but doesn’t get any
keepers
 She rolls the one die for a third time, no keepers
 End of her turn, the two Aces are credited to the Score
Board for a total of three X’s

14.  Error prone
 Too much work in progress
 Developers spend a lot of time correcting the
mistakes of others
 Mistakes that would have been avoided
Half-Hearted Swarming