The aim of the workshop is to simulate product development in a quickly changing environment, where agile techniques should excel. How quickly can we iterate? What are the bottlenecks? Which techniques are most valuable? Do any fall by the wayside?

In this hands-on workshop we aim to simulate product teams building software and delivering it into a market. Attendees form teams and compete to build the best product. Through the session you can continue to refine and upgrade your software, releasing new versions and testing their performance in the market. Once your software is live it will begin to accrue points, as simulated users use the software and score it against how well it fits their needs. The earlier you release your software, the sooner you will start accruing points, and the earlier you can learn something about the market, which should inform your next iteration. We ran this workshop at XP2011, it went well there, but we have some improvements we think could make it even better.

Workshop requirements

One laptopr per two attendees with a programming environment that can handle http requests. Most modern environments do. That's it!

Facilitator

Willem van den Ende is a Dutch eXtreme Programming pioneer. Since 1999 he guides organisations in the introduction of Agile Software development as an all-hands person: coach, developer and facilitator. Always active in the local and international community, he currently servers as host of systemsthinking.net, the European AgileOpen conferences, open space host of XP Days London and co-programme chair of  Software Practice Advancement. Willem is an appreciated workshop facilitator at practitioners’ conferences like  XP(Day), Software Practice Advancement, scan-agile and Agile200*.