Agile coaches and trainers
An essential warm-up or standalone session in Scrum, Kanban and Lean workshops. Gets teams engaged from the first minute.
Lean & Agile simulation
The Coin Game — live virtual online multiplayer.
A fast-paced, multiplayer simulation that brings Lean and Agile principles to life. In just a few rounds, your team will feel the impact that batch size has on flow — no theory required.
What participants discover
The simulation makes abstract Lean concepts tangible in minutes, not hours of theory.
Why large batches delay value
Teams discover that working hard and staying busy does not guarantee that value reaches the customer quickly. Large batches create long queues even when everyone is working flat out.
How reducing batch size improves flow
Smaller batches mean the first coin reaches the customer far sooner. The data speaks for itself — no persuasion required.
The real cost of work in progress
Participants feel the frustration of waiting for a large batch to be processed upstream before they can begin their own work — the invisible cost of push-based working.
A numbers-driven understanding of flow
Each round produces concrete data — customer time, total throughput, cycle time. Teams leave with evidence they generated themselves, not a trainer's assertion.
How it works
Players join via a shared URL — no downloads, no installs. Each player acts as a workstation in a production line, flipping coins and passing batches to the next station.
The facilitator controls the game from a separate screen, moving between rounds and revealing the cumulative data after each one. The debrief practically runs itself.
Prior experience of facilitating the Coin Game is useful but not required. See the Facilitators Guide for step-by-step instructions.
Who it's for
The Coin Game works in any setting where you want teams to understand flow without sitting through a lecture.
Leadership programmes
Helps senior stakeholders understand why Agile teams push back on large batches of requirements — through direct experience rather than explanation.
Team onboarding
A memorable way to introduce new team members to flow thinking and Lean principles before they see them in practice on real work.