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Improv-ing Agile Teams

Using Constraints to Unlock Creativity

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Improv-ing Agile Teams

By: Paul Goddard
Narrated by: Paul Goddard
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Improv is not about being funny, original, or chaotic.

It's about embracing change.

Improvisation. The mere mention of the word makes many people quake with fear at the prospect of chaos and uncertainty. The fact is, though, human beings are improvising almost every minute of their lives it is more natural, and more filled with possibility, than you might imagine.

On stage, improvisational actors use simple rules, collaborative principles, and game constraints to build unscripted yet intriguing storylines. This audiobook explores how those same simple rules and principles can help agile teams collaborate more effectively and how purposefully working within constraints can unlock creativity.

In this audiobook, you ll find over 50 techniques and improv games tailored for agile teams, complete with step-by-step instructions. These games are based on five different principles of improvisational theatre:

  • Safety: How accepting failure is essential to discovery
  • Spontaneity: How to increase the flow of ideas
  • Storytelling: How narratives help teams relate to their customers and end users
  • Status: How adjusting personal behaviour can encourage collaboration
  • Sensitivity: How to become more fully engaged with fellow team members
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Loved the fresh approach to team buildings and removal team's impediments. Well worth the read.

Fresh and interest approach to team building

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The book is packed full of wonderful exercises for teams but more than that it explores the way teams behave (which is staggeringly complex) by the clever comparison to improv troupes.

It's great to hear Paul reading his own book here. You can tell how passionate about the material he is and it makes a difference.

Totally worth your time, effort and indeed money.

Creative and very practical

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I was a little skeptical to begin with but I was recommended this by a colleague and it was surprisingly useful and really quite clever. I've used a few of the games with my teams and they enjoyed them and they helped us as well.

Clever and useful

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A lot of practical advice and ideas for anyone who is working in resp. with (agile) teams. Easy to listen to and follow along.

Great Input to Team Building and Coaching

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Fascinating insights within a niche subject, that nonetheless provide useful techniques for a broad range of development situations, that I'm already trying out on the projects I manage.

All the (software development) world's a stage

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