remote friendly team building activities

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Today my team did a virtual scavenger hunt. What other team building type activities or agile games have folks done remotely?

[Campbell Ritchie]

Did you find any virtual scavengers?

[Junilu Lacar]

Ours is pretty lame: we've just been randomly changing our backgrounds on MS Teams when we're on video calls. We still get a kick out of it though, which shows how nerdy we still are at our age.

If you're not familiar with the MS Teams feature I'm talking about, you're able to blur your background so others can see what's going on behind you (a very cool feature, actually) but recently they introduced a twist to this in that you can choose a custom background to show instead of a blur filter. One coach is a disc golf enthusiast so he uses pictures of really cool disc golf courses. I have a messy home office so I use an image of a big corner office on a high floor with full glass windows overlooking a city (yeah, I know, boring).

[Tim Cooke]

This one made me laugh.

[Junilu Lacar]

Tim Cooke wrote:This one made me laugh.

Maybe I'll steal that and use it tomorrow in our team synch up meeting.

[Tim Cooke]

You must report back on how it went down.

[Junilu Lacar]

We had a short and serious synch up this morning so I didn't get a chance to play around with the backgrounds but I have that image and a few others all ready to go. Will try on Monday.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Tim Cooke wrote:This one made me laugh. . . .

It didn't make her laugh.