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- 1. Play at Work: Agile Games for Productive Teams Christian Nelson Carbon Five #playatwork
- 2. Carbon Five?
- 3. Who are you?
- 4. Agile Development Iterative Adaptive Collaborative Reality-based
- 5. Games in Agile Ritualized activities Cooperative, not competitive Simple, repeatable rules Participants create the experience
- 6. # 1 Story Writing
- 7. <Story Title> As a <role>, I can <what>, so that <why>.
- 8. Stories... • Written from the user’s perspective, • Not complete specs, • A “Promise for a future conversation,” • Small and independent.
- 9. Stories... • Demonstrate value to the user, • Describe a whole feature, • Don’t include interface details, • Easy to accept.
- 11. Sign up for an account “As a guest, I sign up for a new account so that I can start using the service.”
- 12. Send a public message “As a user, I can send a public message so that I can share something with others.”
- 13. My most recent message “As a user, I can see my last tweet so that I am reminded of what I said last and when.”
- 16. # 2 Estimation
- 17. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- 18. Let’s play... Ro! Cham! Beau! (planning poker)
- 19. Rules Read the story... Questions? • Tie? Next story! • One adjacent outlier? Go with majority! • Brief discussion and play again.
- 20. Sign up for an account ? “As a guest, I sign up for a new account so that I can start using the service.”
- 21. Send a public message ? “As a user, I can send a public message so that I can share something with others.”
- 22. My most recent tweet ? “As a user, I can see my last tweet so that I am reminded of what I said last and when.”
- 23. Remove features under load ? “As a user when the system is under load I don’t see some features so the site doesn’t go down.”
- 24. Unfollow ? “As a user I can unfollow for a period of time so that I don’t see all of their posts during sxsw.”
- 25. Remove multiple users via search ? “As a user I can unfollow everyone in a search result at once so that I can get rid of spammers & bots.”
- 26. Discussion
- 27. Other Games...
- 33. Red, Green, Refactor Ping Pong TDD
- 36. Reading List • The Art of Agile Development • Game Storming • User Stories Applied • Agile Estimation and Planning
- 37. Questions? [www|blog|c5nn].carbonfive.com @carbonfive @c5nn @xianpants #playatwork
Editor's Notes
- High Level Agenda:\n* Set the context: agile development and games\n* Talk about a product\n* Play some games!\n* Q & A\n
- Boutique web and mobile development consulting company\n22 developers and designers\nBeen in business for more than 10 years, using extreme programming throughout\nWe use the games and activities in this talk with all of our clients.\n\n
- Designer?\nDeveloper?\nProduct owner/manager?\nOther?\n
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- A technique for capturing ideas for features.\nStories are the unit of work in an agile process.\n
- Anyone on the team can write stories.\n
- Alistair Cockburn\n
- Unclear acceptance criteria: &#x201C;As an admin I can generate reports from application data so that I can understand usage.&#x201D;\n
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- Intentionally vague on the implementation details.\n
- They&#x2019;re fast to write, the real work happens once the product owner prioritizes it, making it part of the plan.\n\n
- Independent\nNegotiable\nValuable\nEstimatable\nSmall\nTestable\n\n
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- 4 minute timer\n1 or 2 stories\n\n
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- How long will a story take? Hard to answer... who, meetings, etc.\nHow big is a story compared to others? Easier to answer.\n\n\n\n
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- 12 mins: 6 minute timer\nDemonstrate with 3 pre-written stories.\nForm groups of 3-4 and estimate all of your stories.\n5 minute timer\n
- Intentionally vague on the implementation details.\n
- Independent\nNegotiable\nValuable\nEstimatable\nSmall\nTestable\n\n
- Independent\nNegotiable\nValuable\nEstimatable\nSmall\nTestable\n\n
- Independent\nNegotiable\nValuable\nEstimatable\nSmall\nTestable\n\n
- Independent\nNegotiable\nValuable\nEstimatable\nSmall\nTestable\n\n
- Independent\nNegotiable\nValuable\nEstimatable\nSmall\nTestable\n\n
- 5\nHow do you capture requirements today?\nHow do you estimate work?\nCan you imagine doing this with your team?\n
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- Planning Game\n
- Story Mapping - Jeff Paton\n
- Story Mapping - Jeff Paton\n
- Story Mapping - Jeff Paton\nMake it a game: Make the best product with 25 points\n
- Velocity: average measure of accepted story points per iteration\n
- Reflection / Retrospectives\n
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- User testing\n
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