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It is an Open Space! It all started over a quick conversation on Twitter. The first outcome was a post highlighting all the Canadian and American noteworthy conferences, unconferences and meetups. The second was a twitter poll that revealed great support from the community to hold an Open Space around games. The challenge was to…
I was lucky enough to present for the second year in a row at Agile Games New England 2019. This time I was advocating for conflict, different types of it, and ways to handle it or not! The session was designed to present audience a tool to practice at the personal, team and organizational level.…
If you are not in the Agile world, It might sound like a gaming conference and a very fast one! It might be! Depending on what session you attend and your perspective. Agile Games is an annual Agile conference in Boston, Massachusetts; held by Agile New England. I was invited to the conference as a speaker…
I presented “User Stories by Collaboration” at the Agile Games 2018, a very interactive session. It was delivered the first session after the Keynote; I am truly humbled by the audience and their level of energy and enthusiasm that they brought. What’s most important about a user story? Collaboration! How many times have you heard…
Carlos and I presented “Modern XP Game” at the Agile Games 2018. As we mentioned in one of the opening slides, we took the original XP Game and added more concepts to it. In this specific instance, we added experimentation and modern collaborations to the original gameplay. The following from Alistair Cockburn resonated with us and…
You don’t want to spend so much time with your team on estimating user stories, I totally understand that. However, the only way you know to do that is through planning poker. True, planning poker is a great way of bringing up the conversation for user stories but it’s not the most effective way to…