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The Playful BAGeorgiana Mannion
"You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than you can from a lifetime of conversation"
- Plato
9 – Questions8 – Other uses of play 7 – Doodles6 – Games to play5 – LEGO Serious Play™4 – Power of Play3 – Epistemology2 – Understanding groups1 – Legitimising play
Legitimising playBut I am a grown up
"Every child learns at a very early stage that when they’re asked a question in school they must first ask themselves a question: What answer does the asker expect? That’s the way you get through school, by providing people with the answers they expect."
- Dr. Russell L. Ackoff
Negate fundamentals
Remove structure
Remove the need for seriousness
Cost a fortune
What playfulness doesn’t do
Understanding groups
With group dynamics
Barriers and opportunities
Stereotypes / Prejudice
Personalities and Personas
Introvert/Extrovert
Emotions
The problems with groups
Too weak / too strong authority
Blocking
Free riding
Over evaluation
Groupthink
EpistemologyThe theory of knowledge
Dr Kevin De Souza –Facilitating Tacit Knowledge Exchange, COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM June 2003/Vol. 46, No. 6
Tacit Knowledge Study
Power of PlayAnd being abstract
Lego Serious Play ™Not actually serious
Seriously Lego
Strategy development and exploration
Organisational development
Innovation and product development
Change management
Scenario development and testing
Teaching grown ups Test Driven Development …using Lego Kev McCabe http://bigmadkev.com
Games to playDo try this at home
Personas
Name them
Describe their input
Everyone contribute pieces
Agree the person
Refer back
Strategy Play
Provide Lego
Ease in with games
Set times
Set the challenges
Everyone talks
Plan
Assign times
Build
Update
Review
Lego Estimation
Devil’s advocate
Use the consensus
Empower one or more
Invite all challenges
React
The opposite of play isn’t work, it’s depression.
- Dr Stuart Brown
ADULTS
PLAYING
Doodles & daydreams
To keep attention!
Why the crayons?
Other uses of playNot just for BAs
QuestionsOr even complaints
