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The Idea of a Scrum Simulation with LEGO®
In the beginning of the year 2011 I had the idea for a Scrum Simulation with LEGO®. A Scrum Simulation which needs to be scalable. Scalable for Teams with different stages of knowledge about Scrum. Useful for Beginners as well as Advanced. Usable as a Simulation for ‘easy’ Scrum as well as a Simulation for Scrum of Scrums. Feasible to run with 1 to x Teams. Interesting especially for Software Developers and technical Freaks. In addition, people should learn the Scrum Workflow, it’s Artefacts and Meetings by having a lot of fun.
LEGO® is a plaything everybody knows, all around the world. As I’m a StrategicPlay® Facilitator, a creative Problem solving Solution with LEGO® based on LEGO® Serious Play, I know how to use LEGO® in a serious context with a joshing course.
An Airport is a complex enterprise system with lots of complex dependencies and lots of technical interfaces. Nearly everybody knows how an Airport works or rather the workflow starting by leaving the car at the parking lot, check in the luggage, receiving a boarding-card till having a seat in a plane. And when arriving at the destination, you want to have your luggage back at the baggage claim.
Hence the idea of a Scrum Simulation with LEGO® in a context of an airport seemed for me an interesting challenge to cover my demand of a scalable approach.
Scrum LEGO® Airport @ Scrum Safari, Cape Town, 2011
Thus I created the Scrum Simulation, Scrum LEGO®Airport with the following scalable stages:
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1,5h Appetizer – conference format
Prerequisites: some Scrum Basics
Participants: 5 to 50 ppl + n Observer
4h stand alone Economic Simulation with Focus on Scrum Basics
Prerequisites: no background required
Participants: 5 to 50 ppl + n Observer
8h Beginners combined with a basic Scrum Training
Prerequisites: no background required
Participants: 5 to 21 ppl
8h Advanced combined with a Team Visioning Session with StrategicPlay®
Prerequisites: experience with Scrum
Participants: 1 Team
What do People learn in the Scrum LEGO® Airport Simulation?
Pragmatic understanding that Scrum is about self-organizing Teams, Cooperation, Communication, Understanding, Respecting People, Teamwork, Creativity and Productivity.
Understanding the Scrum Workflow by building valuable products for the customer in each Sprint 
which can be delivered after every iteration. Understand what needs to be build first so that the customer can start transporting people after the first sprint and add value from Sprint to Sprint so that the enterprise ‘Airport’ can grow constantly and the customer can grow her business.
I ran the Scrum LEGO® Airport at
different Company’s
Global Scrum Gathering Seattle, May 2011
Scrum Gathering South Africa, September 2011
Agile Prague, September 2011
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Nov 30, 2018 @ 10:06:14
Nov 25, 2013 @ 23:50:14
Must try some time. Thanks!
Dec 21, 2012 @ 16:40:45
Nov 07, 2011 @ 15:19:44
Hello, thanks for making this available! I’ve been looking for instructions for this kind of thing for a while, brilliant!
How much Lego, roughly, do you think we might need for say, five teams?
Nov 07, 2011 @ 16:44:15
Hi Mike,
thx a lot for your comment, highly appreciated!
Indeed, this is a challenging question and it’s not easily answered. If you have 5 Teams with, let’s say 5-7 people on each Team, then you have about 25-35 people dealing with LEGO. I just can estimate that you need about 10 kilos of LEGO, at least. I can post some photos of my set which I use when running the session. It has about 22 kilos and I just recognized that 55-60 people is nearly the max. for this amount of LEGO bricks. In addition, you need to be aware that you need different kind of LEGO, not just ‘standard’-sets. My collection contains a lot of LEGO technique, Star Wars, Space Police, standard…
I think gathering the right set of LEGO is the most challenging part for running this session!
Best from cologne,
Thorsten