Coffee Shop: Team Shift

Students join by code and are dealt roles with private information cards. Only by talking do they assemble the full picture: a shared inventory board, three timed storm waves with vendor traps and stakeholder cards to buy, team votes with an owner tiebreak, then a cross-team leaderboard and debrief. It never punishes — you felt the problem the course is about.

Duration

20–30 min, live (facilitator-led)

Participants

8–60 players, auto-formed into teams of 4–5 (up to 12 teams)

What students take away

That a 'simple' coffee shop runs on fourteen digital products — and that good decisions need information, a method, and talking to the right people, not just speed.