Benjamin Chee Senior Agile Manager, Westpac

About Benjamin Chee

Benjamin Chee is a longtime Agile practitioner, having helped and mentored Agile teams ranging from fintech and telcos to academia and government, and continues to do so in a senior role for a major banking corporation. He has previously served in the army as an instructor with the combat engineers, and often draws organisational and leadership lessons from this experience as part of his Agile journey.

Since 2013, Benjamin has worked on over a dozen tabletop role-playing games, including the ENNIE-award winning titles Achtung! Cthulhu (2014), Achtung! Cthulhu 2D20 (2022) and Alien: The Roleplaying Game (2020). He also has over two dozen tabletop game credits, most recently as design lead for the Warfighter Mediterranean (2023) and Warfighter North Africa (2023) tactical card games, and co-designing the upcoming Eagle Leader (2024) and Fulcrum Leader (2024) air command games. In 2022, Benjamin was inducted into the RPG Geek Hall of Fame.

The art of wargaming is a unique confluence of mathematics, history, strategy and storytelling. Blending these disciplines together to create a tabletop wargame is a process of adaptive methods, fast feedback loops, experimentation and emergent design, which will no doubt be familiar to many in the audience.

Join Benjamin Chee as he takes you through a real-life case study which follows the creation of a tactical board game from inception to publication over 2.5 years. This presentation will be of interest not just for historical and boardgaming hobbyists, but for anyone who might enjoy a brief detour into the esoteric art and craft of wargame design in the hands of an agilist.