A ‘Bad Remote Meeting’ Game: “Who Wants to be a Remote Facilitator?”
How could we have the worst remote meeting experience?
Introduction
This post describes how you can simulate a game in a workshop setting to imagine a terrible remote meeting experience. It should be fun! Afterwards, once a team has experienced the worst possible remote meeting experience, we will brainstorm ideas for improvement.
Scrum Teams are cross-functional: they benefit from a combination of skills to get work done, including facilitation skills to help things keep moving in the right direction. Scrum Masters often play this facilitator role.
I’ve written about the facilitation skills of Scrum Masters in the past, and I’ve enjoyed using games with Scrum Teams to generate improvement ideas about meetings and how we work together:
Remote Working is different…
Facilitation skills that work well with fully co-located teams might not necessarily be successful with a mix of…
