Code
MGYF PRO 5920
Level
M2
Field
Projet et gestion de projets
Language
Français/French
Class hours
7
Program Manager(s)
Department
- Management, Marketing et Stratégie
Educational team
Introduction to the module
Welcome, everyone, to this integration seminar focused on agility and collective intelligence!
Here, we are stepping away from our usual tools to explore group dynamics through a series of playful and stimulating challenges. By engaging in iconic team-building exercises such as the 'Spaghetti Bridge Challenge,' we will do more than just build ephemeral structures; we will model our ability to communicate, fail fast to learn faster, and innovate under pressure. The goal of this day is simple: to break down silos, strengthen our bonds, and discover how, by coordinating our individual strengths, we can transform fragile materials into solid and bold projects.
Learning objectives/Intended learning outcomes
- 3 - Communicate strategically in global and multicultural environments
Rubrics
Compétences Douces / Soft Skills
- Sens Critique / Critical Thinking
- Construction de sens / Sensemaking
- Créativité / Creativity
- Travail en Equipe / Collaborative Teamwork
- Intelligence Collective / Collective Intelligence
Content : structure and schedule
MORNING
09:00 – 09:30
Presentation of the Majors’ Curriculum Overview of schedules and the challenges for the upcoming year.
09:30 – 10:00
Icebreaker: The Connection Circle (30 min)
Activity: Participants move around to find improbable commonalities with their colleagues.
Objective: To establish a climate of psychological safety.
10:00 – 11:15
The Marshmallow Challenge (1h15)
Challenge: Build the tallest freestanding structure using 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, and a marshmallow on top.
Debrief: Analysis of rapid prototyping and the importance of iterative testing.
11:15 – 11:30
Break
11:30 – 12:45
The Blind Minefield (1h15)
Challenge: One partner is blindfolded and must navigate an obstacle course guided solely by their team’s vocal instructions.
Objective: To develop communication precision and absolute trust.
AFTERNOON: Agility in Action
Focus: Scrum mindset, stress management, and strategic pivoting.
14:00 – 14:15
Energy Booster (15 min)
14:15 – 15:45
Lego Scrum Simulation (1h30)
Challenge: Build a city (or an Industry 4.0 complex) using Legos across three 10-minute sprints with defined roles (Product Owner, Scrum Master, Team).
Objective: Concrete application of the cycle: Planning → Sprint → Review → Retrospective.
15:45 – 16:00
Break
16:00 – 17:00
Value Chain Puzzle (1h00)
Challenge: Teams receive pieces of a complex industrial process (inspired by Industry 4.0 concepts) and must reorganize them despite missing information.
Objective: To understand interoperability and a systemic vision of an organization.
17:00 – 17:30
Closing & Action Plan (30 min)
Closing Circle: Each participant shares one concrete commitment to improve daily collaboration.
Sustainable Development Goals
Industrie, Innovation et Infrastructure (9)
Ce module contribue à l’ODD 9 en développant une compétence clé de l’innovation industrielle à savoir l'intelligence collective.
Number of SDG's addressed among the 17
1
Learning delivery
synchrone
Pedagogical methods
Apprentissage par le jeu / Game-Based Learning
Apprentissage Expérientiel / Experiential Learning
Pédagogie Active et Collaborative / Active and collaborative pedagogy
Evaluation and grading system and catch up exams
Pas d'évaluation
Module Policies
Professor-Student Communication
● The professor will contact the students through their school email address (IMT-BS/TSP) and the Moodle portal. No communication via personal email addresses will take place. It is the student responsibility to regularly check their IMT-BS/TSP mailbox.
● Students can communicate with the professor by emailing him/her to his institutional address. If necessary, it is possible to meet the professor in his office during office-hours or by appointment.
Students with accommodation needs
If a student has a disability that will prevent from completing the described work or require any kind of accommodation, he may inform the program director (with supporting documents) as soon as possible. Also, students are encouraged to discuss it with the professor.
Class behavior
● Out of courtesy for the professor and classmates, all mobile phones, electronic games or other devices that generate sound should be turned off during class.
● Students should avoid disruptive and disrespectful behavior such as: arriving late, leaving early, careless behavior (e.g. sleeping, reading a non-course material, using vulgar language, over-speaking, eating, drinking, etc.). A warning may be given on the first infraction of these rules. Repeated violators will be penalized and may face expulsion from the class and/or other disciplinary proceedings.
Learners are expected to strictly adhere to the class schedule provided in their timetable.
● The tolerated delay is 5 minutes. Attendance will be declared on Moodle during these 5 minutes via a QR code provided by the teacher at each course start.
Each half-day of unexcused absence or lateness will result in a penalty of -1 point on the final course grade.
● Student should arrive on time for exams and other assessments. No one will be allowed to enter the classroom once the first person has finished the exam and left the room. There is absolutely no exception to this rule. No student can continue to take an exam once the time is up. No student may leave the room during an examination unless he / she has finished and handed over all the documents.
● In the case of remote learning, the student must keep his camera on unless instructed otherwise by the professor.
Honor code
IMT-BS is committed to a policy of honesty in the academic community. Conduct that compromises this policy may result in academic and / or disciplinary sanctions. Students must refrain from cheating, lying, plagiarizing and stealing. This includes completing your own original work and giving credit to any other person whose ideas and printed materials (including those from the Internet) are paraphrased or quoted directly. Any student who violates or helps another student violate academic behavior standards will be penalized according to IMT-BS rules.
Textbook Required and Suggested Readings
Race (2020). The lecturer's toolkit: A practical guide to assessment, learning and teaching (5th ed.). Routledge.
Keywords
Agility; Collaboration; Rapid Prototyping; Coordination; Team building