The Ball Flow Game is a variation of Boris Gloger’s Ball Point Game. The downloads here, which are used to capture and visualise flow data, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Instructions

See instructions from a previous blog entry

Downloads

Version 1.6

Version 1.0

Open Office Spreadsheet (coming soon) – thanks to Gerry Kirk

Numbers Spreadsheet (todo) – volunteers welcomed

Other

Hints & Tips (todo)

17 Comments

  1. Hi Karl,
    We were planning to try out the Ball Flow Game but the link to the Excel spreadsheet says it no longer exists. Any chance to get it by tomorrow, April 10th? Much appreciated

  2. Hi Kathie,
    Thanks for letting me know. The link should be fixed now.
    Karl

  3. Karl, the link to the version 1.6 is still broken.

    1. Odd – works for me?
      You need to click through to the dropbox page to download. Don’t try and “Save as…”. I should probably make that clearer.

  4. I’m having similar difficulties w/ getting that Excel spreadsheet file. Dropbox says: “Nothing here. The file you’re looking for has been deleted or moved.”

    1. Argh. I rearranged my dropbox folders and forgot about this. Should be fixed now. Thanks for letting me know!

      1. That was quick, thank you Karl!

  5. Hey Karl, I’m having troubles with the link, too.

    1. Odd. Should be working. Are you clicking through to the dropbox page to download? Don’t try and “Save as…”

      1. Was odd. Works now. I was clicking through and on the dropbox page getting ‘access restricted’.

  6. Hi, the dropbox link doesn’t work 🙁

    1. Which link? Seems ok for me?

    2. Hi Pascal. I did reproduce the problem and the links are fixed again. Thanks for reporting it.

  7. Hi, Seems to have problem again with dropbox.
    “The webpage at https://www.dropbox.com/s/1y81sjj21fsned5/Ball%20Flow%20Metrics%20Template%201.6.xlsm?dl=0 might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.”

    1. Hi Hila. The url works for me. Can you check again? Or are is dropbox being blocked?
      Karl

  8. Is there a game you can suggest that would help my team understand the need for standard cadence? They seem to think that it is fine if a sprint is 1 & 1/2 weeks or 2 ish weeks or 2 weeks and 10 hours or 2 weeks and another day (so they can just finish up a story). Trying to help them understand that having a standard cadence is about predictability. Which they can’t have if they don’t have consistency.

    1. Hi Lisa,
      To teach cadence I would probably go back to the original Ball Point Game (linked to at the top of the post).
      Karl

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