agile the board game (for xpdays benelux 2013)
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Agile the Board Game is a cooperative game to teach basics and trade offs of agile software developement.TRANSCRIPT
Agile the Board Game
Dajo Breddels
Agenda
• Why Agile the Board Game?
• What is Agile the Board Game?
• Rules of Agile the Board Game
• Play the game
• Questions and remarks
If you have a question
Why Agile the Board Game?
• Different learning styles
– Reading
– Listening
– Doing
• See the team in action
• To explain specific concepts
What
Well known games
• Similarities and differences with those games
Agile the Board Game
How to play
• Goal of the game
– To achieve as much business value as possible, by getting accepted user stories
• The game ends when:
– You are out of money
– The Product Backlog is empty
– You are at the end of week 16
The Cards: Team Member
The Cards: User Story
The Cards: Week
The Cards: Review
The Cards: Improvement
Wrap up
Assignment 1
• Select a team
– Each player selects one Team Member Card (Orange)
– Aim for a good mix of different skills
• Calculate weekly costs
– Write costs on sheet
• Team name
– Write team name on sheet
Assignment 2
• Select iteration length
– Do you want to use iterations?
– What is the iteration length?
• Alternatives:
– Kanban
– Waterfall
Assignment 3
• Design Agile Dashboard
– Start with “To Do”
– End with “Done”
– Rest is up to you
• Draw your Dashboard on a big sheet of paper
Week
• Start of the week– Place week marker on the next week
– Pay Salary of the team
– Place skill tokens on Team Member Cards
• During the week– Assign skill tokens to items
• End of the week– Return unused skill tokens
– Draw Week Card
Start Iteration
• Planning
– Each Team Member pays 1
– Select User Stories
– All paid are changed to
– All new may be assigned to User Stories this week
End Iteration
• Review– Each Team Member pays 1
– Draw a Review Card
– All User Stories in Done are accepted
– Calculate Business Value Delivered (add to sheet)
• Retrospective– Discuss the Iteration
– Select one or more improvements (optional)
– Place Improvements on Dashboard in ‘To Do’
Play!
• Start the Game
– 16 Weeks
– 400.000 Euro
Agile the Board Game
More information
Visit:
http://www.kuzidi.com/xpdays2013
http://www.kuzidi.com/agiletheboardgame
Contact:
Dajo [email protected]@dajobreddels