The library
268 serious games broken down: objectives, step-by-step walkthrough and debrief guide for each.
1-2-4-All
Bring out everyone's ideas in 12 minutes, without letting the more talkative take over.
1,2,3 Go!
A dynamic game to improve responsiveness and coordination.
15 % Solutions
Identify what each person can do right away, without waiting for permission or additional resources.
2 Truths And 1 Lie / Fact Or Fiction
Get to know your colleagues better with a fun and revealing game.
20/20 Vision
Prioritising features through successive comparisons, just like at the optician: which one is the clearest?
2tonnes
An immersive workshop to test, until 2050, the individual and collective levers for low-carbon transition.
4Ls – Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed For
Structured retrospective for effective continuous improvement.
5 Whys (Root Cause Retrospective)
Explore the root causes of a problem using the 5 Whys method.
Discovering Cognitive Biases
Explore and understand cognitive biases through an interactive card game.
Affinity Mapping
Organise your ideas by themes to reveal hidden insights.
Agile Burger Quiz
A competitive quiz to revise agility while having fun!
Agile Fluency Diagnostic
Assess your team's agile maturity across four key areas.
Agile Smells !!
Identify and rectify poor agile practices with humour and introspection.
Agile Taboo!
Discover agility by guessing terms without forbidden words!
Agile Topics Cards
Explore agility with the Agile Topics cards for rich and inspiring exchanges.
Animagile
Explore managerial dynamics through Animagile.
Appreciative Inquiry
Amplify your team's strengths for positive change.
Architects & Builders / Artists & Specifiers #2
Communicate effectively to replicate a hidden construction.
Artists & Specifiers
Communication and creativity to create a unique drawing.
Assumption Mapping
Identify and prioritise project assumptions effectively.
Team Metrics Dashboard Workshop
Co-create a metrics dashboard for your team.
Visual Management Workshop
Optimise visibility and collaboration with an effective visual board.
Psychological Safety Workshop
Enhance psychological safety for a more effective team.
Impediment Removal Workshop
Eliminate obstacles to boost your team's efficiency.
To the Board!
Explore visual management through a collaborative and creative game.
Backdoors & Breaches
A tabletop exercise to train a team to investigate, prioritise, and contain a cyber incident.
BaFá BaFá
Experience cultural shock to reveal stereotypes, misunderstandings, and adaptation strategies.
Ball Point Game
Optimise your team workflow through the Ball Point Game.
Barnga
Experience cultural shock when everyone believes they are playing by the same rules… without being able to explain them.
Human Bingo
A quick icebreaker to get people moving, discover commonalities, and create initial connections.
Brainwriting 6-3-5
Generate up to 108 ideas in 30 minutes, without verbal dominance, by building on others' ideas.
Breaking the Chain!
A game to illustrate communication and collective understanding.
Business Model Canvas
Map out a business model on a single page, then explore concrete alternatives.
Buy a Feature
Prioritise through fictitious purchasing to reveal what truly matters and why.
Collective Mind Map
Build a shared vision of a topic through a collective, visual, and discussed mind map.
Stakeholder Mapping (Power/Interest Matrix)
Visualise who really matters in a project and choose the right engagement strategy.
Celebration Grid
Visualise what deserves to be celebrated: successes, learnings, and experiments, even those that failed.
Celebrity Prioritization
Decide together the order of evacuation for celebrities in crisis.
Giant Chifoumi (rock-paper-scissors tournament)
A quick tournament where losers become supporters and the room fills with energy until a giant final.
Circles & Soup
Identify what you can control to act effectively.
Non-Violent Communication (NVC)
Enhance your team interactions through Non-Violent Communication.
Communication Race
Enhance your team communication through a collaborative journey.
Counting to 20
A collective listening challenge: reach 20 without order, strategy, or interrupting each other.
Conversation Café
A structured dialogue to address a difficult question by truly listening before responding.
Cover Story
Project yourself into the future with your project on the cover of a magazine!
Craft Challenges
Develop collaboration and creativity with engaging challenges.
Crazy 8s (Design Sprint)
Generate 8 ideas in 8 minutes to boost your creativity!
Crowdfunding Workshop
Prioritise the features that matter through a collaborative approach.
Customer Interview Workshop
Learn to conduct user interviews to validate your product hypotheses.
Cynefin Framework (Sense-Making)
Classify your problems to make better decisions with the Cynefin Framework.
Daily Scrum From Hell
Explore the pitfalls of the Daily Scrum with humour and introspection.
DAKI – Drop, Add, Keep, Improve
A retrospective in 4 quadrants to stop, add, keep, and improve without losing nuances.
Debriefing Kards
Debrief effectively with Kards in collective intelligence.
Consent-Based Decision Making
Decide quickly and solidly: not everyone needs to love it, just ensure no valid objections remain open.
Definition of Done Workshop
Co-construct a Definition of Done to ensure the quality of Scrum deliverables.
Delegation Poker
Clarify delegation levels and enhance your team's autonomy.
Tomorrow's Headline!
Identify and prioritise the key features of your product to maximise its value.
Design Studio (sketch, present, critique)
Quickly generate multiple solutions, provide useful critiques, and then converge towards a common sketch.
DevOps Game
Simulate DevOps collaboration to enhance communication and efficiency.
Ishikawa Diagram (Fishbone Diagram)
Identify the root causes of a problem with the Ishikawa diagram.
Divergency Poker
Evaluate and align your team's perceptions with Divergency Poker!
Dixit in Facilitation
Using Dixit cards to elicit feelings, feedback, and visions through metaphor.
Dod Kards
Clarify your Definition of Done with Dod Kards.
Dor Kards
Build your Definition of Done together with DoD Kards.
DORA Metrics Introduction
Kickstart your DevOps journey with DORA metrics.
Dot Voting
Effectively prioritise your ideas with dot voting.
Draw Toast
Visualising our mental models to better understand a system and build a shared representation.
EBM Workshop (Evidence-Based Management)
Measure product value with EBM for informed decisions.
Ecocycle Planning
Mapping an activity portfolio to decide what to stop, strengthen, or launch.
Egg Drop Challenge
Design a structure to protect an egg from a 2-metre drop!
Elephant Carpaccio
Slice a software need into tiny vertical pieces, deliverable and demonstrable every 8 minutes.
Elevation of Privilege (Threat Modelling Card Game)
A trick-taking game to uncover security threats from your own architecture.
Elevator Pitch (the Geoffrey Moore template)
Align a product vision in 60 seconds using Geoffrey Moore's positioning template.
Empathy Map
Develop empathy to better understand your users.
Onward with Agile
Test and deepen your agile knowledge as a team!
Heard, Seen, Respected
Experience deep empathic listening to understand what makes one feel heard, seen, and respected.
Educational Escape Game
A scripted challenge in a limited time to learn through solving, cooperating, and debriefing.
ESVP – Explorer, Buyer, Holidaymaker, Prisoner
An anonymous vote to reveal the group's real energy before a retrospective or training session.
Event Storming
Model your business domain with Event Storming for optimal alignment.
Example Mapping (BDD)
Clarify your user stories with rules and concrete examples.
Face Wall
Create a collective identity wall at the start of the seminar.
Fast Codev
Solve a problem together in record time!
Featureban
A Kanban simulation to experience the impact of WIP, bottlenecks, and metrics on delivery flow.
360° Feedback
Enhance your personal development through constructive feedback.
FeedForward (Marshall Goldsmith)
Transform feedback into future suggestions for constructive dialogue.
Fishbowl
Facilitating dialogue in a large group without chaos, through a small circle that speaks while others listen.
Fist of Five (the five-finger vote)
Measure commitment in minutes, address concerns, and decide without false consensus.
Lotus Blossom
Explore a problem through 8 families of ideas, then push each one to 64 structured pathways.
Flow Metrics Workshop
Optimise your workflow with concrete data.
Force Field Analysis (Retrospective)
Analyse the forces of change to move forward more effectively.
Futurospective
Project your team into an ideal future to plan concrete actions.
Earn as Much as You Can (the X-Y Game)
An intense X-Y dilemma to reveal trust, competition, and the meaning of 'you'.
Gallery Walk (the poster gallery)
Circulate ideas, enrich posters, and collectively synthesise while keeping a visible record.
Gemba Walk
Improve your team by observing the reality on the ground.
getKanban
A Kanban simulation to manage flow, visualise metrics, and make profit decisions under events.
Give Them a Hot Tub
Uncover hidden needs through deliberately absurd features.
Guess What I Am
Guess your secret identity through questions from other participants.
Hack The Code
Decode the message together: cooperation is the key to success!
Happiness Door
A visual, anonymous, and immediate feedback tool to adjust a workshop while there is still time.
Hot Air Balloon (Retrospective)
Discover what lifts or lowers your team with the hot air balloon metaphor.
How Might We (HMW) – How Could We
Transform challenges into creative opportunities with HMW.
Hypothesis-Driven Development
Transform your ideas into testable hypotheses for effective innovation.
Impact Mapping
Link your business objectives to concrete and testable impacts.
Impromptu Networking
Create connections quickly and clarify what each person is seeking or offering.
Improvement Kata (Toyota)
Apply scientific thinking for continuous improvement.
Introduction to Systems Thinking
Explore the complexity of systems for sustainable solutions.
Jeopardy
Stimulate continuous improvement with a reverse question-and-answer game.
Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) Workshop
Explore the deep motivations of your users for relevant product innovation.
Kaizen Game
Discover continuous improvement with the Kaizen Game.
KALM – Keep, Add, Less, More
Adjust the intensity of your actions for continuous improvement.
Kanban Bootstrap
Optimise your workflow with Kanban Bootstrap!
Kanban Pizza Game
Discover Kanban by making paper pizzas.
Kanbanzine
Learn Kanban by creating a collaborative magazine.
Kudo Wall / Recognition Wall
Express your gratitude and strengthen team engagement with the Recognition Wall.
The Devil's Advocate
Explore difficult choices as a team with empathy and critical reflection.
The Paper Plane Factory (Lean)
A simple and impactful Lean simulation to demonstrate the effects of flow, work-in-progress, and quality at source.
The Jigsaw Classroom
Learning in cooperation: everyone becomes an expert on an essential piece of the collective puzzle.
The Crevasse
A cooperative game to strengthen trust and communication.
The Biodiversity Fresco
Understand as a team the erosion of biodiversity, its causes, impacts, and levers for action.
The Climate Fresco
Understand the causes and consequences of climate change by collectively building a fresco of 42 cards.
The Digital Fresco
Collectively understand the environmental impacts of digital technology and identify sustainable actions.
The Expectations Matrix
Clarify expectations to enhance collaboration and reduce tensions.
The Ball of Wool (the Team Web)
A circle, a ball of wool, and a visible web to feel the connections and interdependence of a team.
The Agile Meadow
Two teams, a common goal despite divergent instructions.
The Paper Tower
Build the tallest self-supporting paper tower to reveal cooperation, roles, and prototyping.
The Team Crest
Create a shared crest to make visible the identity, strengths, and challenges of a team.
The LEGO Duck (Duck Challenge)
With 6 identical bricks, reveal in 10 minutes the power of different interpretations.
The Blind Square
Form a perfect square blindfolded to reveal leadership, listening, and shared understanding.
The Golden Circle (Why, How, What)
To bring forth a shared Why, then align it with action principles and concrete outputs.
The Minefield
Guide a blindfolded partner through obstacles to experience trust, precision, and communication amidst noise.
The Moving Debate
Elicit arguments, nuances, and shifts in opinion through movement in space.
The Beer Game
A supply chain simulation to experience the bullwhip effect and understand the impact of delays.
The Constellation Game
Strengthen team bonds by exploring affinities.
The String Game
Making visible, with a simple string, the hidden connections behind our plate.
Goldratt's Dice Game (Theory of Constraints)
A simple simulation to see how variability and dependencies destroy flow despite balanced capacities.
The Triangle Game (Systems Thinking)
Physically experiencing interdependencies, cascading effects, and the limits of linear control.
The Agile Maze
Navigate the maze to enhance cooperation and innovation.
The Best from the Worst
Transform the worst ideas into creative solutions.
The Mood Wall
Visualise and understand the evolution of the group's emotions in real-time.
The Agile Museum
Explore the challenges of traditional projects through an immersive role-playing game.
The Human Knot
Develop team cohesion by untangling the Human Knot together.
The Secret Number
A silent ranking game to enhance team collaboration.
The Japanese Step
A movement and strategy game to promote cooperation.
The Pipeline (the ball and the gutters)
Move a ball without touching it: coordination, rapid learning, and the right to trial in action.
The Agile Name
Discover the challenges of multitasking with The Agile Name.
The Chinese Strategist
Stimulate strategic thinking with the 36 Chinese stratagems.
Chinese Whispers
Experience in 20 minutes how a message distorts when it circulates without verification.
Lean Canvas
Clarify a startup idea in 20 minutes and identify the hypotheses to test first.
Lean Coffee
A structured and participatory format for productive and inclusive discussions.
Lean Coffee (Retrospective)
An agile retrospective without an agenda where participants choose the topics.
Lean Inception
Align your team on a clear and shared product vision in one week.
Lean UX Canvas
Align your team on the key assumptions of a product with the Lean UX Canvas.
LEGO® Serious Play®
Bringing ideas, visions, and decisions to life by building metaphors with LEGO® bricks.
Lego4Devops
Discover DevOps in a playful way with Lego4DevOps!
Lego4Scrum
Learn Scrum by building a city with LEGO, sprint after sprint.
Lego4Scrum
Experience Scrum by building together with Lego.
The 6 Thinking Hats
Explore multiple perspectives with the 6 Thinking Hats.
The 9 Whys
Clarifying the deeper purpose of a task by exploring up to nine levels of 'why' in pairs.
Broken Squares
Cooperate in silence: succeed together by sometimes letting go of your individual solution.
Agile Chairs
An immersive game to explore intercultural challenges and collaboration.
The Non-Musical Chairs
Enhance cooperation with a game of chairs without music.
The Derdians
A serious game to explore intercultural challenges through bridge building.
Ugli Oranges
A quick negotiation to reveal the difference between defending a position and exploring true interests.
Personas
Create personas to better understand your users and adapt your product.
Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ)
Quickly solve a collective problem by replacing debate with silent work, voting, and clear actions.
Lost In Transformation
Explore the keys to a successful organisational transformation.
Mad / Sad / Glad
Express your emotions to strengthen team cohesion.
Marshmallow Challenge
Build the tallest tower with spaghetti and a marshmallow!
Marshmallow Challenge
Build the tallest structure with spaghetti and a marshmallow in 18 minutes.
Team Competency Matrix
Map the key skills of the team to reduce risks and decide on concrete actions.
Impact / Effort Matrix
Prioritise your actions for maximum impact with minimal effort.
Now How Wow Matrix
Prioritise your ideas based on their originality and feasibility.
Merge!
Merge ideas to stimulate creativity and collective innovation.
Walt Disney Method (Dreamer, Realist, Critic)
Maturing an idea by separating dreams, action plans, and constructive criticism.
Min Specs (the minimum rules)
Identify the few truly essential rules and eliminate over-prescription.
Mob Programming (Introduction)
Maximum collaboration to solve complex problems as a team.
Manual of Me
Write your personal user manual to enhance collaboration, especially in hybrid or remote teams.
Kano Model
Prioritise features based on their impact on user satisfaction.
MoSCoW Prioritization
Effectively prioritise your tasks for optimal alignment.
Moving Motivators
Explore your motivations to enhance team engagement and energy.
Multitasking Name Game
A quick game to experience the cost of multitasking and the importance of limiting work in progress.
Niko-Niko / Energy Barometer
Evaluate your team's mood at a glance with emojis.
Obeya Room Setup
Create an Obeya room for optimal visibility of team performance.
OKR Workshop
Co-create inspiring and measurable objectives with OKRs.
Open Space Technology (OST)
Create your own agenda for maximum collaboration and creativity.
Opportunity Solution Tree
Mapping the path between customer outcomes, opportunities, solutions, and tests without jumping to features.
ORID (Structured Facilitation)
Debrief in a structured way for deeper learning.
Yes, and…
An improvisation exercise to feel the impact of 'Yes, but' and 'Yes, and' on collective creativity.
OWASP Cornucopia
An OWASP card game to transform attack scenarios into application security requirements.
Penny Game
Understand Lean flow by manipulating coins.
Think-Pair-Share
Encourage individual reflection, enrich in pairs, then share without putting participants on the spot.
Lost in the Desert
Simulate a survival situation to align visions and improve collaboration.
Lost at Sea
Decide by consensus under pressure and concretely measure the added value of the collective.
Perfection Game
A simple protocol to transform feedback into concrete and actionable improvement suggestions.
Personal Maps
Draw and share your personal map to better understand yourself and collaborate with more confidence.
Photolangage
Making images speak to reveal representations, experiences, and feelings without debate or judgment.
PI Planning (Introduction SAFe)
Synchronise your agile teams towards a common goal over 8-12 weeks.
Picture Novel
Create a collaborative visual story with a photo novel.
Lean Pitch / Save Our Conference Call
Create innovative solutions to improve your conference calls!
Pizzas Kanban Game
Learn Kanban by making pizzas!
Planning Poker
Estimate complexity as a team to foster alignment and collaboration.
Plus / Delta
An express feedback format in two columns to retain the best and decide what to improve next time.
Pre-Mortem (Failure Anticipation)
Anticipate potential failures to strengthen your project from the outset.
Prime Directive – Norm Kerth
Create a framework of trust for constructive retrospectives.
Product Box
Transform your ideas into tangible products with Product Box.
Product Vision Board
Clarify and align your team's product vision.
Proto-Persona
Create user proto-personas as a team for quick alignment.
Prune the Product Tree
Co-create a product roadmap by visualising growth, balance, and technical debt.
What? So what? Now what? (W³)
Debrief without rushing: facts, meaning, then useful actions.
Release Planning Canvas
Plan your release by unifying objectives and risks on a collaborative canvas.
Remember the Future
Project the team into a success that has already been achieved to clarify the vision, benefits, and milestones.
Low-tech Social Network
A wall of drawn profiles to make existing connections visible and trigger new ones.
Retrospective of the Three Little Pigs
A simple and visual retrospective to distinguish vulnerabilities, areas for improvement, and robust strengths.
Sailboat Retrospective
Navigate towards continuous improvement with the Sailboat retrospective.
RICE Scoring
Prioritise your features with an objective and quantified method.
Risk Storming
Anticipate and prioritise project risks through visual collaboration.
Rose / Bud / Thorn
Explore successes, opportunities, and challenges with Rose / Bud / Thorn.
ROTI – Return On Time Invested
Measure in 5 minutes whether the time invested was truly worthwhile, then decide what to improve.
SCAMPER
Generating new ideas by methodically questioning the existing with the 7 SCAMPER verbs.
Scrum Card Game
Simulate multiple Scrum sprints with cards, dice, and unforeseen events to experience commitment, flow, and collaboration.
Scrum Health Check
Assess the health of your Scrum team for continuous improvement.
Scrum Manger Rétro
Express the unspoken and stimulate creativity in retrospectives with Scrum Manger Rétro.
Secret Story
Explore hidden secrets to strengthen team cohesion.
SOS Titanic in Distress
Turn the lifeboat over to survive the disaster!
Speed Boat
Identify the barriers and levers of your project with Speed Boat.
Speed Meeting (Express Meetings)
Express meetings in rotating pairs to quickly build connections and open discussions.
Split Poker
Break down your user stories for an efficient and smooth backlog.
Sprint Goal Canvas
Co-create a clear and motivating Sprint Goal as a team.
Sprint Review Canvas
Optimise your Sprint Review to encourage feedback and alignment.
Squad Health Check (Spotify)
Collectively assess your team's health across key dimensions.
Stack Race
Stack cubes as a team with strategy and communication.
Starfish Retrospective
Explore the nuances of your team with the Starfish retrospective.
Start / Stop / Continue
Identify key actions for the team at a glance.
Story Mapping
Create a shared product vision and effectively prioritise your MVP.
Story Slicing – Breaking Down User Stories
Break down your user stories for optimal workflow.
Survival on the Moon (NASA exercise)
A classic consensus exercise to compare individual decision-making, collective decision-making, and NASA's reference.
T-Shirt Sizing
Effectively estimate your projects using the T-Shirt Sizing method.
Teach-back (teaching to learn)
Learning by teaching: participants transform content into mini active sessions.
Team Canvas
Align your team on its goals and values with the Team Canvas.
Team Charter
Co-create the team charter for effective collaboration.
Team Estimation Game
Effectively estimate your backlog as a team.
Team Radar / Spider Web
Evaluate your team on key dimensions using the visual radar method.
The Daily Scrum
Enhance your Daily Scrum for optimised team collaboration.
The Frog Factory
Learn Kanban by folding origami frogs!
The Helium Stick
A collaborative challenge that tests coordination and communication.
The Kanban Frog Factory
Learn Kanban by folding origami frogs.
The Mood Lane
Explore the emotions of your team over time.
The Ultra Speed Ball
Pass the ball in record time with your team!
Thirty-Five (35)
Quickly bring out the best ideas from a large group through successive comparative voting.
Three Amigos (Refinement)
Clarify your user stories with the Three Amigos to avoid misunderstandings.
Retrospective Timeline
Visualise and understand the key events of your sprint through an interactive timeline.
Troika Consulting
Receive useful advice in 10 minutes from two peers who think aloud for you.
Turn The Tables
Identify the strengths and areas for improvement of your team.
Tweetospective
Reflect on the sprint in 280 characters or less!
User Journey Mapping
Map the user journey to enhance the experience.
Value Proposition Canvas
Clarifying the fit between a specific customer, their real needs, and the value promised by an offer.
Value Stream Analysis Workshop
Optimise your flows to maximise added value and reduce waste.
Value Stream Mapping
Map and optimise your processes for maximum efficiency.
Values Advocacy
Defend agile values and explore their limits.
Walk & Stop
Stimulate attention and responsiveness with reversed movements.
Walking Skeleton Workshop
Build a minimal skeleton to validate product integration from the outset.
What’S That Comic ?
A communication game to enhance collaboration without visual support.
Wildlife Sizing Poker
Estimate your tasks as a team for effective agile planning.
Wise Crowds (the wisdom of the group)
Mobilise 4 to 5 peers to illuminate a concrete challenge, without debate or power struggles.
Working Agreements
Establish common working rules for effective collaboration.
World Café
Explore complex questions by collaborating around rotating tables.
XP Game
Experience estimation, value, and velocity in XP through short, concrete, and measurable tasks.
Zoom (the sequence of images)
Reconstruct a story of images without seeing them: listen, describe, and change perspective.