This session was led by Sameh Zeid with a summary provided by Rob Adlers and Sameh Zeid.

I attended part of the talk while being a bumble-bee.

The intent was to have a Kanban simulation to teach the concepts of flow and waste. Although the session title has the word ‘game’ it was really more of a simulation.

The simulation had 3 steps in the process:

1.    Requirements (1 day) -> 2. Design & Development (2 days) -> 3. Q/A & Release (1 day).

The simulation started with no work in the process. Then each day one new request (label S1, S2, etc.) was introduced and Sameh

Sameh walked us through each day showing how the work moved through the system. He explained the waste in the system due to waiting at Design and QA steps.

I left right about Day 4 as a bumble bee so I did not get to hear the rest of the session.

I thought this simulation was a great way to show a real system. I liked the simplicity of the model as it focused on process flow rather than the process itself.

If I were to use this in a coaching capacity I would try to make it more interactive by using physical parts, such as lego building, or paper airplanes. This would allow people to actually performing the steps so that they can feel the wait and waste. I might even assign a bookkeeper to do all the measuring and recording.

This attached photo shows Rob Adlers reporting back to the attendees.