Agile the Board Game is a cooperative game to teach basics and trade offs of agile software developement.

1. Agile the Board Game
Dajo Breddels

2. Agenda
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Why Agile the Board Game?
What is Agile the Board Game?
Rules of Agile the Board Game
Play the game
Questions and remarks

3. If you have a question

4. Why Agile the Board Game?
• Different learning styles
– Reading
– Listening
– Doing
• See the team in action
• To explain specific concepts

5. What

6. Well known games
• Similarities and differences with those games

7. Agile the Board Game

8. 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

9. The Cards: Team Member

10. The Cards: User Story

11. The Cards: Week

12. The Cards: Review

13. The Cards: Improvement

14. Wrap up

15. 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

16. Assignment 2
• Select iteration length
– Do you want to use iterations?
– What is the iteration length?
• Alternatives:
– Kanban
– Waterfall

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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’

21. Play!
• Start the Game
– 16 Weeks
– 400.000 Euro

22. Agile the Board Game

23. More information
Visit:
http://www.kuzidi.com/xpdays2013
http://www.kuzidi.com/agiletheboardgame
Contact:
Dajo Breddels
dajo@kuzidi.com
@dajobreddels