Re: Re: Requesting Suggestions for Mini-projects for Agile Training

Perhaps you could do some variant of the Elephant Carpaccio exercise? It
was created by Alistair Cockburn, and you can find a great facilitation
guide online by Henrik Kniberg.


http://blog.crisp.se/2013/07/25/henrikkniberg/elephant-carpaccio-facilitation-guide


On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:56 AM, [email protected] [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT]
<[email protected]> wrote:


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> Hello Steve,
> Thanks for your response.
> In 3 days I  would like the team to get a real feel of developing a very
> small product/app  end-to-end - From product visioning  to potentially
> shippable features.  I am looking for  suggestions for a  mini-project that
> is effort-wise mid-way between 1-hr Scrum/XP simulation games and a product
> development that takes takes weeks.  I plan to have 3 sprints each having a
> length of about 6 hrs per day where a a small working prototype is
> developed in about 100 person-hrs (assuming a team of 5-6 people working
> about 6 hrs a day for 3 days. ).
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> To answer your other questions -
> 1. "if you intend to include Philosophy, Principles, Roles and
> Responsibilities and potential Agile Practices (Techniques), then you will
> not have enough time to develop (program) anything in the 3 days."
>   >>> I agree. In fact I will be addressing these and also the Sprint
> ceremonies in a separate program ( 2 -3 day session) before the 3-day
> project begins.There I may make use of well known games and simulations
> to illustrate the concepts.
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> 2. "My own approach.........Just-in-Time Training"
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>   >>> This is my approach too when I am having a longer
> consulting/coaching assignment. But for a short duration 3 days which may
> be a public program and/or  where participants come from different
> backgrounds I will be focusing more on the process aspects. Yet I would
> like them to do some hands-on development and testing as a cross-functional
> team using  technical practices they already know.
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> Regards
> Gopinath
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> ---In [email protected], <steve@...> wrote :
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> Hello Gopinath
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> What are you trying to achieve with your 3-day Agile Intro course?
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> Are you just concentrating on the programming elements of Agile?
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> Are you going to give them a set of user stories to develop?
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> Will you be speaking about Philosophy and Principles?
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> What about the governance aspects needed for an Agile product development?
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> My opinion that if you intend to include Philosophy, Principles, Roles and
> Responsibilities and potential Agile Practices (Techniques), then you will
> not have enough time to develop (program) anything in the 3 days.
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> I contend that even if you are just doing this intro for programmers, they
> need to understand the Agile background to be able to work in an Agile way;
> just learning the so-called Agile programming techniques of Test-Driven
> Development, Pair-Programming, Continuous Integration and Refactoring etc
> will not equip them to be an effective Solution Development Team.
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> My own approach to training a group of people for a product development is
> to gather all ‘roles’ from Business Sponsor to new hire programmer
> including major business and technical stakeholders and start from forming
> the development vision, through business objectives and requirements (User
> Stories), technical constraints (architecture, infrastructure, standards
> and rule etc) and planning.  I use the Product under consideration as the
> Case Study for the ‘course’ exercises.
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> You can get to the Sprint Plan for the first Sprint in 3 to 4 days
> depending on the size of the project.
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> I then will spend 2 to 3 days with the Dev Team setting up any tools and
> teaching them how to use the programming techniques  as part of the first
> Sprint as ‘Just-in-Time’ training.
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> My 2-pennyworth
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> *Steve Ash*
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> There are many good games and simulations available in the web to
> illustrate Agile concepts and methods.
> But for a 3-day Intro to Agile training program I would like to ask the
> participants to develop and test small applications using Agile practices.
> I have some ideas for applications from business domain (not sure whether
> they can be developed in 3-days).
> Need some suggestions (or pointers to resources) for mini-projects from
> domains like healthcare, CAD/CAM, embedded software that can be completed
> in 3-days (three one-day sprints) by a team of 5-6 people of moderate
> technical competence.
> Would highly appreciate your assistance.
> Thanks in advance
> Gopinath
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