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The coin spinning game is a way to learn one of the most essential skills in
quality improvement, the PDSA cycle, plan, do, study, and act.
My colleague, Dave Williams, had the idea for this game, and
we flushed out the idea and started using it with teams.
It's a really fun and very quick way to get some real experience with PDSA cycles.
Today, our learning objectives for this exercise are two,.
1, understand rapid-cycle PDSA testing.
2, understand how theory and prediction help you learning.
3, see how to collect real time data for measurement.
And 4, appreciate the opportunity to learn together.
The materials for this game that you'll need are four coins of different sizes and
weights.
In the US we use a quarter, a dime,
a nickle and a penny, use whatever works for you.
You'll also need a time piece able to capture minutes and
seconds at each table, a smartphone works well for a time piece for this game.
You'll also need a time keeper.
You should also have a worksheet called the PDSA tracker with you.
You'll see several questions that will prompt you to be thoughtful about
the ideas you wanna test.
This game works best in groups of about three to five, so team up and
make sure you have the materials with you.
The object of the game is to spin that coin as long as you can.
You can use and test any of the four coins, any technique and
any surface, however you define what a surface is.
The game is going to take roughly 25 minutes, 15 minutes for spinning and
10 minutes to debrief what you've learned.
You wanna run as many tests as you can in these 15 minutes.
However, you wanna be intentional in your testing.
That means consider what you believe may support the longest coin spins.
Write your change idea down in the plan section of your PDSA tracker,
along with what questions you're trying to answer with this test.
Then make a prediction of the time you expect to achieve.
Once the plan section is complete, do the test, spin the coin.
Remember, the starting point is when the coin starts spinning, and
it stops when the coin comes to a natural stopping point fully on your surface.
During the test, capture observations in the do section of the PDSA tracker form.
After the completion of your test,
document the time in the run chart included in your tracker and test again.
You might think documentation is gonna take you a long time, but trust us,
the more tests you run, the faster you'll get at planning your tests.
Are you ready, let's do this.
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