DevelopmentPlanningGame
Reserve the conference room for 3:30 to 5:00
2007.04.13
Contents
Framing of the Meeting 5 Minutes
This meeting is scheduled for 1.5 hours
- convener: Brandon
- timekeeper: Steve
- eyeroller:
- parking attendant:
There are 10 people here so if all goes well we'll be spending 15 hours on this meeting. How much extra could you accomplish if you had 15 extra hours or 2 extra days this week? Meetings are expensive, so we've put in some extra time ahead of the game to try and make sure that the takeaways from this meeting are worth the investment
At the end of this meeting we'll have succeeded 100% if we have the following
- A prioritized list of tasks for the development team to accomplish during the next two weeks with 100% consensus that the priorities are good enough to move forward
- Better understanding of the strategic imperatives for our organization
Progress Reports 5 minutes
- Dev report
- Content and Community teaser
Metric Change 10 minutes
- Metric change, current is IdealizedDeveloperPairDaysWorked vs [[]] EstimatedWorkUnits ... RunningTestedFeatures
- Want to measure RunningTestedFeatures, but what is a feature?
- IdealDeveloperPairDays
- The number on the card estimates the cost of the feature, if the rest of the group decides to pay that cost, then they are estimating that it is worth at least that much ... it may turn out that either one can be wrong
Strategic Visualization 30 minutes
Stragegy asks the question "Of all the things we could do, which
- Close your eyes ... think about the last two weeks ... think about the times that you were interacting with the site ... remember what you were doing at various times ... What do you spend most of your time doing while interacting with the site? What frustrated you the most while you were working on the site?
- Open your eyes and write down your thoughts about what you spend time doing, and what you find most frustrating
- Close your eyes ... imagine that you've never heard of aboutus before ... on Tuesday of next week you stumble upon aboutus and after browsing around a bit you decide to create an account and become more involved ... it's you, but a newbie version of you who doesn't work for AboutUs ... for some reason you've decided to give AboutUs a try ... NoobYou spends 4 hours over the next few days doing what? ... what frustrates NoobYou the most as you interact with the site?
- Open your eyes and write down your thoughts about what NoobYou spends your time doing, what does NoobYou find most frustrating
- Close your eyes ... imagine that you have $1,000,000 ... what would you spend that money on? ... You could spend the money that way, OR, you could try to invest the money and grow it ... In fact, a friend of yours has suggested that you invest it all in AboutUs with the possibility of getting back $2,000,000 in three years ... you've never heard of AboutUs except through your friend so you decide to spend an hour checking it out ... what do you want to see when you visit the site? ... (remember, you could spend it on all those things and investing it in AboutUs is risky, you could lose all of your money or you could double it ... which do you think is going to happen?) what do you want to know before you invest your money?
Planning 30 minutes
during that time ... what could the development team do to
... metric change, turn taking, topsoil
- Write user story to remove topright links
- Write user story to remove User:Blah pages