The first

Scrum simulation game

where collaborative writing of a crime story
is used for teaching iterative product development

Engaging Scrum Game

ScrumTale is an engaging simulation game where teams collaborate to create a thrilling crime story while practicing the Scrum framework. Perfect for workshops and training sessions, it offers a hands-on approach to learning Agile principles, fostering teamwork, and mastering iterative product development in a fun and immersive way.

Authentic Agile Experience

Through this interactive experience, participants explore all key Scrum elements: roles, events, and artifacts. ScrumTale's dynamic gameplay encourages self-organization, emergent leadership, and effective collaboration under time constraints, mirroring real-world Agile challenges. ScrumTale transforms theory into practice, making Scrum accessible, impactful and enjoyable.

Trusted by Professional Trainers as well as Fortune 500 companies

What

Makes ScrumTale unique

During the simulation a group of ghost writers will write a crime story using Scrum. The team will experience challenges with integration, product quality and communication just like a typical Agile team.


Perfectly Accurate

Crime story beats other products used in Scrum simulations. There are many analogies between software development and writing crime stories.

Full Engagement

Unleashed creativity boosts engagement and makes learning more powerful.

Flexible Learning Platform

ScrumTale is an extensible simulation which you can easily modify to reach your training goals.

The

Benefits

How your organization will benefit from using ScrumTale simulation game

Practice
Scrum Framework

This game is a perfect aid to practice all the elements of the Scrum framework: roles, events and artifacts. ScrumTale takes you on an amazing trip where you will:

  • Understand how each Scrum role contributes to the product development
  • Observe how development processes and communication is reflected in the final product
  • Experience continuous improvement process
  • Practice Scrum scaling elements

Experience Iterative
Product Development

The product delivery will be split into three sprints, after which the teams will present the outcomes of their work, reflect on how the work was going along and plan the next sprint. ScrumTale helps you to practice Agile approach to product development:

  • Customer collaboration
  • Inspect & adapt
  • Incremental delivery
  • User Stories and Story mapping
  • Minimal Viable Product (MVP)
  • Value Driven Delivery

Build High Performing Teams

Playing ScrumTale with a team is a great team-building exercise. You will experience:

  • Self-organization under time pressure
  • Emergent leadership
  • Team building phases: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing
  • Experimenting with XP techniques like: pair programming or refactoring

Meet

Our products

ScrumTale game comes in two versions: Online Miro template or Box for running classroom workshops.

  • ScrumTale Box

    In the box you will find two game boards which unfold to 888mm x 500mm, User Story cards, Event cards and Role cards.

    9-17 participants
    4-6h workshop time

  • ScrumTale Online Edition

    We digitalised ScrumTale for you! Now it is possible run your ScrumTale workshops on-line to teach Scrum & Agile remotely! All you need to is download a ScrumTale template and upload it to your Miro virtual board.

    9-17 participants
    4-6h workshop time

     

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Choose your option

ScrumTale Online Edition

€199

ScrumTale Online Edition and access to Game Extensions

  • Easy template integration with your Miro board
  • The same game setup and number of participants like in the Box version
  • Already integrated with game extensions
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ScrumTale Box

€495

1 ScrumTale Box and access to Game Extensions

Includes step-by-step facilitation guide

Serves from 5 up to 17 people

One or two Scrum Teams in parallel

Access to online materials and game extensions

Unlimited workshop goals

Language extension packs available in: German, Polish, Czech, Italian.

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ScrumTale Traveler Edition

€350

1 ScrumTale Traveler Edition and access to Game Extensions

  • Portable version for travelers
  • Includes materials for DIY game board
  • Same functionality and number of participants as ScrumTale Box

Language extension packs available in: German, Polish, Czech, Italian.

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Our Clients

  • Brad Arnst
    ScrumTale is an awsome game to realy quickly start to understand how Scrum works and its benefits.
    Brad Arnst
    Disruptor, Buildit@wiprodigital
  • Certified Scrum Master
    Best Scrum game that I have an ability to play: Fun, Real, Engageing. Highly Recomended.
    Certified Scrum Master
    Buildit@wiprodigial
  • James Reeve
    A brilliant way to bring Scrum concepts and values to life.
    James Reeve
    Agile Coach, Designit
  • Magdalena Ciesielska, PhD
    Great workshops! I definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to learn to work at Scrum and share knowledge!!
    Magdalena Ciesielska, PhD
  • Staszek Matczak
    Most of the Scrum workshops focuses on showing Scrum events – we build Lego city, we have 3 minutes for planning, 7 minutes for sprint, 3 minutes for review and so on. ScrumTale is different. ScrumTale is focused on showing Scrum as the framework for creating innovative products by whole team. The team has the unique opportunity to improve cooperation skills, communication mechanism and integration. Learning and final product of the workshop are amazing!
    Staszek Matczak
    www.trzeciakawa.pl
  • Mariusz Opaliński
    Of the games that simulate SCRUM, this one is unique. Writing a book together is almost like writing code. We can get to know and practice multiple aspects of team work organized by SCRUM. The game is a perfect complement to a training for those who start their adventure with Agile and SCRUM as well as for those who are already experienced and wanting to reach a higher level, practice scalability challenges, difficult customer relation or teach a new team how to work more efficiently.
    Mariusz Opaliński
    Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Asseco Data Systems

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