Free Resources
Tools to think
and play with.
Templates, games, books, and videos that we find genuinely useful. Curated by Christiaan. Updated regularly.
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Templates & tools
Triple Layer Business Model Canvas
A canvas that maps your business model across three layers: economic, environmental, and social. Useful for innovation sprints and stakeholder alignment.
Sprint Planning Board
A simple, printable Kanban-style sprint board for teams just getting started with agile. Works on a whiteboard or as a digital template.
Root Cause Analysis Framework
A structured template for running a 5-whys analysis with a group. Designed for innovation consulting sessions and problem sprints.
Serious Games
Games worth knowing
The Beer Game
The classic MIT Sloan simulation that demonstrates the bullwhip effect in supply chains. Developed in the 1960s and still one of the most powerful learning tools in existence. We use it and extend it with digital mechanics.
Try our digital versionThe Scrum Lego Game
A hands-on simulation where teams use Lego bricks to build a city in sprints. It creates immediate, visceral understanding of sprint planning, velocity, and backlog management. One of our go-to agile kickstart games.
The Prisoner's Dilemma
The foundational game theory scenario. Simple to run, profound in what it reveals about collaboration, trust, and self-interest. We use variants of this in innovation workshops and stakeholder alignment sessions.
The Fishbanks Game
A simulation developed at MIT where teams manage a fishing fleet and experience the tragedy of the commons in real time. Exceptional for teaching sustainability, shared resources, and long-term thinking.
Curated Reading
Books worth your time
The Fifth Discipline
Peter Senge
The book that introduced systems thinking to the mainstream. The Beer Game was invented for this book. Essential reading for anyone designing simulations or running innovation consulting.
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Jeff Sutherland
Written by the co-creator of Scrum. Practical, clear, and motivating. A good starting point for anyone who wants to understand why agile works before learning how to do it.
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen
Why good companies fail when faced with disruptive change. Foundational for understanding innovation strategy and why organisations need to simulate disruptive scenarios before they happen.
Thinking in Systems
Donella Meadows
The most accessible introduction to systems thinking available. Meadows explains feedback loops, delays, and leverage points in a way that makes every simulation you run more meaningful.
The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
A chess prodigy and martial arts champion writes about mastery and learning. The principles connect directly to conscious competence development and why experiential learning outperforms instruction.
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Essential reading for anyone designing experiences, games, or processes. Norman's framework for affordances, feedback, and constraints underpins a lot of what makes a good serious game work.
Curated Videos
Worth watching
How to Model Complex Systems (MIT OpenCourseWare)
A solid introduction to system dynamics and simulation modelling from MIT. Foundational for understanding what makes simulations powerful.
Link coming soonJeff Sutherland: Scrum at Scale
Sutherland on how Scrum scales beyond a single team. Useful context for anyone considering agile adoption across a larger organisation.
Link coming soonWhy Most Innovations Fail (and What to Do About It)
A frank look at why well-funded innovation projects stall and how to design for real adoption rather than theoretical improvement.
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