Presentation made to introduce Mission to Mars game during Agile Tour 2012. For the full game, go to http://www.agileplayground.org/

1. Anybody to paint my
rocket?
Mission ! to Mars
Pierrick Revol – October 2012

2. Mission to Mars
Game Creators!
Pierrick REVOL Damien THOUVENIN
15 offices, 8 countries 1 office (France) J
1600 colleagues 21 colleagues
We guide our clients : Consulting and services in software
• Lean-Agile Transformation • Fixed-price development
• Technologic Transformation • Expertise .NET / MS-SQL
• Digital Marketing • Lean-Agile Facilitation
• Mobility

3. Mission to Mars
Find this game on the web!
On
http://www.agileplayground.org
Objectif Mars de Pierrick REVOL & Damien THOUVENIN est mis à disposition selon les termes de
la licence Creative Commons Paternité - Partage à l'Identique 3.0 non transposé. Basé(e) sur une
oeuvre à www.agileplayground.org.

4. Mission to Mars
1. Principle
We are going to simulate a multidisciplinary
team work involved in the rocket
construction in order to reach Mars.

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2. One Team
David
Omar
Jane
Steve
Nadia

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4 jobs!
Architecture
Programing
Testing
Electronics

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Character sheet!

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Skill matrice!

9. Mission to Mars
Let’s go!
3’
Ò Find a name for your team
Ò Share character
sheets
Ò Initialize the skill matrice

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3. My rocket to reach Mars
D - 50

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My Product Backlog!
Incoming User Stories
(2 visible)
Current User Story
(Only 1)
20 User Stories
180 men.days of work

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User Stories!
Reference &
Global Cost
Description
Cost per job
Analysis
Cost

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Debt from Rocket V0.0!
Ò Technical Debt
Debt treatment
Cost

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Your goal!
Produce a maximum of User Stories
in 5 10-days sprints

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Release Burndown!

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Let’s go!
2’
Ò Familiarize yourself with
Product Backlog
Ò Initialize your Release Burndown

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4. Sprint #1 : Sprint Planning
1 m.d = 1 token

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Activities during a sprint!
Production
Analysis
Make the current
Analyze any visible
User Story
User Story
progress
Training
Technical Debt Gain experience in
Improve the global one of the 4 jobs
software quality

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Sprint #1 preparation!
5 men x 10 days
= ? ?
50 tokens
? ?

20. Mission to Mars
Sprint #1 preparation : Production!
180 m.d / 5 sprints
=
36

21. Mission to Mars
Sprint #1 preparation : Technical Debt!
+ +
=
4

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Sprint #1 preparation : Analysis!
20 User Stories / 5 sprints
x 2 (Full analysis cost)
=
8

23. Mission to Mars
Sprint #1 preparation : Training!
50 - 36 - 4 - 8.
=
2

24. Mission to Mars
Score sheet!

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Let’s go!
2’
Ò Take tokens from the bank and 36 8
arrange them in the middle of the table
4 2
Ò Initialize Score sheet
36 4 8 2

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5. Sprint #1 … Day 1
??? ?

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A Poster and a rule book???!

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One day work!
Every day of the sprint, every player pick up one
token among remaining tockens.
An then, we resolve the day in the following order :
A. Technical Debt
B. Production
C. Training
D. Analysis
Note : If the resolution is not possible the token is lost

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Let’s go!
1’
Ò Take 2 3
Why???
1. You need to know more about User Story #1
(If you don’t perform the analysis before production you will
have a penalty while rolling dice)
2. There is Technical Debt. It is interesting to treat it.

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Technical Debt Treatment!

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Analyze one User Story!

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Analyze User Story #1!
Ò You can analyze any visible User Story

33. Mission to Mars
Let’s go!
3’
Ò Resolve activities of the day

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5. Sprint #1 … Day 2
??? ?

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Let’s go!
Ò Take 5
Why ???
1. User Story #1 is fully analyzed (you don’t have any penalties)
2. It is time to produce !!

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User Story #1 production!

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Generate bugs!
When you fail Production activity, one or more Debt cards
switch into Bug (turn over cards).
Dice Roll No Debt Debt
-1 +3 Debt cards 1/2 Debt => Bug
0 +2 Debt cards 1/3 Debt => Bug
1 +1 Debt card 1/4 Debt => Bug

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Solving a Bug!
When a bug is raised, every team members can
contribute to bug solving with any token.
Ò Production and Technical Debt are blocked.
Ò Training and Analysis can continue.
Note : Previous Technical Debt prevention activities
and Production activity that leads to the Bug, are
counted in Bug solving.
Note : Every token used to generate or solving a bug
is considered as Lost.

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Let’s go!
5’
Ò Resolve activities of the day

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5. Sprint #1 … Day 3+
??? ?

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Training!
Ò The trainee wins a job point what ever the production result
is.

42. Mission to Mars
Plan next sprint !
Ò After sprint #1, you are free to plan sprint as you wish.
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43. Mission to Mars
Let’s go! ?
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Ò Go on!!!
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