The Pizza Game
Why Skills Boosters
Elevate your team’s potential with Skills Booster classes. These concise, high-impact sessions offer a cost-effective strategy to enhance employee capabilities, drive productivity, and foster long-term engagement. Designed to address specific skill gaps and provide upskilling opportunities, Skills Boosters ensure your workforce remains agile and competitive in an ever-evolving market.
Beyond cost savings, training initiatives like Skills Boosters play a pivotal role in reducing employee turnover—a critical issue that costs U.S. businesses approximately $11 billion annually. By providing career development opportunities, organizations can reduce turnover, strengthen team morale, and cultivate loyalty while supporting succession planning.
- Boost Productivity: Equip your team with practical strategies and insights to work smarter, not harder.
- Reduce Costs: Avoid the significant expenses of recruiting and onboarding by developing in-house talent.
- Foster Engagement: Show your commitment to employee growth and satisfaction, increasing retention and motivation.
- Enhance Innovation: Enable teams to leverage the latest tools and methodologies, from Microsoft Copilot to advanced Agile practices.
The Pizza Game Description
Introducing the Pizza Game, a virtual process improvement game. In this engaging game, one or more teams work to organize and develop processes to make a successful pizza shop. Teams start by reviewing what it means to be Agile. After reviewing the Scrum framework, teams execute a predefined process of building and baking pizzas. They are then tasked with identifying process improvements through self-management, reducing waste, increasing quality, and collaborating. This game is perfect for teams starting Agile, Scrum, or Kanban or looking for a fun virtual team-building activity.
Additional Skills Booster Courses
- Microsoft 365 Copilot: Enhance your productivity across Microsoft applications with AI-powered tools.
- ChatGPT: Dive into the world of AI and learn to optimize content creation, coding, and more with ChatGPT.
- Agile, Scrum, Kanban: Revisit the fundamentals of Agile methodologies and discover advanced strategies for project success.
- Product Backlog, Epics, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria: Master managing and refining your product backlog for clearer communication and predictable delivery.
- Outcomes vs. Outputs: Focus on value-driven project management to ensure that your efforts meet strategic business objectives.
- Metrics: Utilize Agile metrics to track progress, forecast outcomes, and enhance team performance.
- Jira: Get hands-on with Jira to manage projects and tasks effectively, improving oversight and alignment with organizational goals.
- Prioritization and Estimation: Sharpen your skills in prioritizing tasks and estimating efforts to better manage project timelines and resources.
- Facilitation: Boost your facilitation skills to lead more effective meetings and drive meaningful project retrospectives.
- Scaling Agile: Explore strategies to scale Agile practices across multiple teams or departments effectively.
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