XPGame

Session Data

• Duration: 3 hours (including breaks)
• Type: simulation
• Area: Planning; teaching, XP, agile process
• Intended audience: Anyone can participate. Developers and customers benefit from experiencing both sides of the planning game. The XP Game explains velocity, in particular, showing how velocity is not the same as business value. This session demonstrates how you can quickly learn to make predictable plans.
• Maximum number of participants: 36
• Facilitators: VeraPeeters and PascalVanCauwenberghe

Description

In real life Planning Game, development and business people are sitting on opposite sides of the table. Both participate, but in different roles. The XP Game makes the players switch between developer and customer roles, so that they understand each other's behaviour very well.

Some of the concepts in the Planning Game are difficult to grasp, for developers and for customers. What exactly is the meaning and background of stories, iterations, consequent estimations, velocity, yesterday’s weather, planning game, feedback? The XP Game is a simulation of the XP Planning Game, which includes the following phases: story estimation, story prioritization, planning, implementation and feedback. No knowledge of coding is required.

This XP Game is a practical way to demonstrate how the rules of the XP Planning Game make up an environment in which it becomes possible to make predictable plans. After all, the easiest way to get a feeling for the way it works is to experience it.

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