Playcamps are one-day regional conferences celebrating the use of collaborative frameworks, Innovation Games® and other serious games for problem-solving in both the public and private sector. Managed by local planning committees and supported by progressive organizations, Playcamps are being organized around the world.
Playcamps capture the best of traditional conferences and unconferences through a mix of compelling speakers and attendee-driven content, and include both in-person and online forms of serious play.
This newsletter, written by Certified Collaboration Instructor Masa Maeda, outlines the very special Playcamp Panama.
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Playcamp Panama took place right next to the Miraflores station of the Panama Canal on May 23-24, 2017 and it was absolutely fabulous because we got to see huge ships and because we got to have amazing learning fun.
We had 27 participants from important organizations including Panama Canal Association, Atlantic Security Bank, Unicef, United Nations, Biomedical Support & Systems, Cable Onda, Itsmo University and other from technology, telecom, and construction.
Melanie Castillo, CEO & Founder of PMOLead, and Dagoberto Morales, senior consultant with PMOLead, were both presenters and the local organizers who did all of the local promotion, organization, and
preparations assisted by a support team of four (kudos to all of them for an amazing job).
Masa K Maeda, CEO & Founder of Valueinnova USA, and Luis Díaz Stoffel, CTO & co-founder of Valueinnova Latin America, were also organizers and speakers (Luis presented remotely).
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The first day was focused on high collaboration frameworks. It started with a welcome message from Melanie followed by an inspirational video greeting by Luke Hohmann, CEO & founder of Conteneo and the brain behind Playcamp, and a fun video greeting by Mahesh Singh, Senior VP of marketing and cofounder of SwiftKanban. Both companies were event sponsors
together with Stattys.
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Mahesh Singh and Luke Hohmann
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Melanie then gave a talk on the logistics, mechanics, roles and hints and tips to conduct high
collaboration frameworks successfully.
We had two tracks for the participants to choose from. Frameworks selection included some from Luke Hohmann—Spider Web, My Worst Nightmare, Speedboat, Remember the Future, Prune the Product Tree, Start Your Day, some from Masa K Maeda—two toppings, lean-agile roadmap, dating game, K2, Lighthouse, and project canvas (co-created by Luis Díaz and Ángel Águeda), Patrick Dodson’s empathy map and Mike Cohn’s planning poker. We made the selection from needs we’ve identified in the Central American region and from requests sent to us prior to the Playcamp.
Masa gave a talk about how to bring high collaboration frameworks from the Playcamp practice to the work practice by following a simple recipe that consists of mindset, awareness, commitment to change and continuous improvement through exploration.
The last activity on day one was a one-hour practical demo of Conteneo’s Weave platform where participants used Decision Engine and Masa’s tug of war. The response was very enthusiastic and allowed everybody appreciate how easily the physical games can also be done effectively through Weave, even more so because laptops, tables and cell phones were used.
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Day two started with four more frameworks followed by Luis’s talk where he provided a practical set of recommendations on how to embed high collaboration frameworks into agile transformations.
The rest of the day Masa led a scrum-to-scrumban-to-kanban workshop that included a one-hour demo of the SwiftKanban tool focused on the team efficiency improvements and on quantitative management.
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We thank all the executives, directors and managers for making Playcamp Panama 2017 successful and fun. Kudos again to Melanie, Dagoberto and the entire PMOLead team for an amazing job and partnering with Valueinnova to make the event happen.
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