Topic: Business Value Game
Presenters: Vera Peeters & Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
Both are independent consultants. Vera runs her own company Tryx, for Pascal this is Nayima.Both have a significant amount of years experience in developing software systems, development in all kinds of high-technological environments applying agile ways of working in different flavors and environments. Both have presented workshops at several conferences, invented the XP Game as well as they founded XP.be community.
Objectives: Learn how to assign business value to projects and stories, prioritize and make plans that bring value.
Contents:
Agile teams want to deliver maximum business value. That's easy if the Onsite Customer assigns business value to each story. But how does the Customer do that? How can you estimate business value?
How do you decide between stories? How do you decide between projects? How do you decide between clients?
This session gives you some simple business value estimation techniques that are "good enough" for everyday use.
The session is run as a game, where teams of 'businesspeople' have to make plans for their development team. The goal of the game is to deliver the highest possible business value, like in the XP Game. This game is a complement to the XP Game: how do these 'business value points" on the XP Game story cards get chosen?
Each businessperson in the team represents one (or more) clients who will buy the team's product IF their feature(s) is in the product. The team is going to have to make some tough decisions; the team is going to have to disappoint some clients, because the development team has a finite capacity.
Pascal & Vera provide the clients and their wishes + they suggest the techniques to estimate business value. The rest is up to us.
Agenda:18.30h Welcome
19.00h Start of the session
20.30h Round up
> be on time!
A big thanks to Bart Reyserhove for the location this time!
Also many thanks to Vera & Pascal for this unique opportunity, much appreciated!
