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by Simon Baker.
Original Post: Playing the XPGame
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We played the XPGame last night with 2 teams of 4 people. Team A beat Team B. The XPGame is always a huge amount of fun. And it's a great way to experience and understand the principles and techniques of adaptive planning and estimation. Lots of interesting comments and insights came out of the iteration retrospectives, and these mapped directly to situations and behaviours the team are experiencing in real-life work. What I found particularly interesting was that Team A described themselves as self-organising (and this was indeed what we observed as coaches) while Team B felt they missed the presence of a Team Leader. I don't think this is the only factor that contributed to the outcome of the game, but I'd like to run 3 more iterations with 2 people from each team swapping over. I wonder what would happen?
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