

Supporting team building and communication will significantly advance your project results. Michael Cramer, María Berenguer and Marjoke Franken show you how you can achieve this by using the cooperative mobile game "Escape the BOOM".
Als Abonnent erhalten Sie die wichtigsten Thesen des Beitrags zusammengefasst im Management Summary.
Supporting team building and communication will significantly advance your project results. Michael Cramer, María Berenguer and Marjoke Franken show you how you can achieve this by using the cooperative mobile game "Escape the BOOM".
Als Abonnent erhalten Sie die wichtigsten Thesen des Beitrags zusammengefasst im Management Summary.
When you enter the room, you feel the tension, the excitement! People are frantically going through what looks like a manual of some kind. Some are seemingly blindly turning pages, terror in their eyes, others are very focused on one page and continuously shout questions like: "How many yellow?" Or: "Is it flowing from left to right or from right to left?" Every now and then you hear one of them shout an order like: "Press the third button!" Or: "Press and hold the button!" Quickly followed by: "What colour?" One person is sitting across the table from the others. She is really focused, looking at her mobile phone as if it were something she had never seen before! She answers the questions rapidly, at what appears to be cool and in control. However, with every passing minute, the tone of her voice is rising, and her breathing gets shallower. And then… there it is… the sigh of relief! "Done!! We’re safe!" Yay!! Laughter and sighs of relief are filling the air. At this moment you first notice the person sitting apart from the rest. She is looking with amusement and interest at the group of people who are now celebrating with high fives. "Shall we gather and shortly debrief what we’ve seen and noticed?" |
"Escape the BOOM" is a quick puzzle and communication game that appeals to people who like to play Escape Rooms or social games. It works best in groups of 3 to 6 players.
The game consists of a mobile app and a manual that can both be downloaded for free at www.Escape-the-BOOM.com [1].
It is a collaborative game, so the whole team wins or fails together. One player must defuse a bomb, shown on the smartphone or tablet, but does not know what to do. The other players have the bomb manual. They can figure out what to do, but they do not see the bomb. So, they need to talk it out quickly, because the timer of the bomb is counting down mercilessly.
Besides being a casual game to play with family and friends, "Escape the BOOM" is a great game for team building activities, trainings that involve remote communication channels or in agile retrospectives. It provides a great opportunity to reflect on a team’s communication and collaboration patterns that will undoubtedly emerge during this exercise. But, because of the playful and (hopefully) not-work-related topic, these patterns are much easier to be discussed openly.
Plan at least 15 minutes for the debriefing. Some questions that we like to ask are:
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