Games to Get Started in Management 3.0:
Meddlers
Duration
60 Minutes
Participants
min. 4 people per group
Goals
- To visualize and talk about organizational structures
- To make your organization grow
Materials
- Meddlers
Rules
- Functional team = people with the same role
- Cross-functional team = different roles
- Keep the teams small (5 max.)
Prerequisites
- None
Recommendation
To know the rules of the game and to have already practiced it
How to Play
Develop a Business Unit of 10 people working for a client on a project
Expand your business unit to reach 18 employees working for one client but on two big projects
Your company must now carry out 5 small projects for 3 additional clients, at the same time as the 2 previous ones, without changing the people available.
Change your business unit so that it relies on a common platform for all projects (always doing all 5 projects), with no limitation of available people.
Synthesis discussion on multi-disciplinary teams, skills sharing, the key role of BAs and Architects in bringing agility to scale, etc.
Educational Conclusion
The exercise does not have a clearly defined result in terms of winners and losers. When players understand how to develop their organization as a value network, everyone wins!
