Too Much Work in Progress Scope Changes Mid-Sprint Unplanned Work Derails the Sprint Sprint Goal Is Just a List of Stories Work Starts Before It Is Ready Retro Action Items Are Forgotten Dependencies Block Progress No Backlog Refinement Product Owner Unavailable Blockers Are Not Actively Managed No Shared Definition of Done We'll Fix It Next Sprint Work Added Mid-Sprint Ineffective Scrum Ceremonies Stakeholders Bypass the Product Owner Stories Carry Over Every Sprint Team Overcommits Everything Is a Priority Requirements Lack Clarity / Missing Acceptance Criteria Scrum Master Becomes Jira Administrator Daily Scrum Becomes a Status Meeting Stories are Too Large Sprint Review Becomes a Status Meeting Velocity Used as a Performance Metric Too Much Work in Progress Scope Changes Mid-Sprint Unplanned Work Derails the Sprint Sprint Goal Is Just a List of Stories Work Starts Before It Is Ready Retro Action Items Are Forgotten Dependencies Block Progress No Backlog Refinement Product Owner Unavailable Blockers Are Not Actively Managed No Shared Definition of Done We'll Fix It Next Sprint Work Added Mid-Sprint Ineffective Scrum Ceremonies Stakeholders Bypass the Product Owner Stories Carry Over Every Sprint Team Overcommits Everything Is a Priority Requirements Lack Clarity / Missing Acceptance Criteria Scrum Master Becomes Jira Administrator Daily Scrum Becomes a Status Meeting Stories are Too Large Sprint Review Becomes a Status Meeting Velocity Used as a Performance Metric
(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
N-Too Much Work in Progress
I- Scope Changes Mid-Sprint
B-Unplanned Work Derails the Sprint
N-Sprint Goal Is Just a List of Stories
O-Work Starts Before It Is Ready
N-Retro Action Items Are Forgotten
O-Dependencies Block Progress
I-No Backlog Refinement
G-Product Owner Unavailable
O-Blockers Are Not Actively Managed
B-No Shared Definition of Done
G-We'll Fix It Next Sprint
I-Work Added Mid-Sprint
G-Ineffective Scrum Ceremonies
N-Stakeholders Bypass the Product Owner
I-Stories Carry Over Every Sprint
G-Team Overcommits
B-Everything Is a Priority
O-Requirements Lack Clarity / Missing Acceptance Criteria
B-Scrum Master Becomes Jira Administrator
G-Daily Scrum Becomes a Status Meeting
O-Stories are Too Large
I-Sprint Review Becomes a Status Meeting
B-Velocity Used as a Performance Metric