A marshmallow, some strings, a little bit of tape, some spaghetti and a team

Yesterday, after our delivery, I took the time to perform the Marshmallow challenge with a team of project managers and a team of developers. It’s an interesting exercise since:

1. It only takes 30 minutes

2. It explains a lot of challenges during a project

3. It exposes the team feeling

4. It’s fun & easy.

What I did was simply viewing this TED video, setting up the challenge and then showed the film for the participants. If only everything in life was this easily executed.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html

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