Agile portugal 2016 Agile Gamification on www.scraim.com The use of project management tools based on Agile methodologies of software development brings benefits to the project members, but for a correct use of these tools, the development team are often forced to interrupt their workflow. The goal of this presentation is to present how we are encouraging a more frequent, intensive and FUN use by the users. To do this there were several questions that were taken in account: What’s the most suitable combination of game elements? How to avoid the hazards associated to gamification? How to ensure the proposed values of the manifesto to agile software development?

1. Agile Gamification in an Enterprise SaaS
by Pedro Castro Henriques
June

2. About Pedro Castro Henriques
• Cofounder & CEO of Strongstep and consultant in software engineer
• CEO of SCRAIM
• Worked in 10 countries in Europe, Africa and North America in
process, tools and organization improvement in software
development
• More then 18 years of experience, including consulting in telecoms
in software engineer; planning of information system strategic
planning in the health sector
• Spoke at Ted Porto“Dreams – The innovators best friend”
• Professor at FEUP

3. PROBLEM

4. Happy Sara!
- Software Engineer

5. NOPE! Not happy
- Updater of Tools

6. How to use Gamification to motivate
team members to update management
tools?
and having fun while doing it!

7. • What is the ideal combination of gaming elements
and techniques?
• How to overcome the risks associated with
Gamification?
• How to ensure the values of the Agile Manifesto?

8. Approach
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2.
3.
Understand usage of SaaS by users
Define gamification strategy focusing on Agile
Implement it, test, assess and adapt

9. Goals
1.
2.
3.
Motivate the frequent usage of the SaaS
Promotion of the correct way to use the tool
Encourage an environment of collaboration

10. Gamification Examples
Swarm by
Foursquare
Stack Overflow

11. Gamification Examples
RedCritter Tracker

12. Online service for project management based on
adaptable processes, to help standardize best practices,
revolutionizing the implementation of international certifications.

13. Agile methodologies with Scraim
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14. Gamification Risks
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• Pointsification
• Exploitationware
• Law Infringement
• Professional Workspace context

15. STRATEGY

16. LEARN WITH “THE MASTERS”

17. Users behaviours to promote
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• Fill in the info of a work item (e.g. Task)
• Execute the work following agile best practices
• Collaboration between project individuals
• Improve the culture of the organization
• Promote mutual assistance with help request

18. Gaming Cycles and Fun
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1. Daily Challenges
2. Asking for assistance
3. Notifications - Mascot
4. Best practices of tool usage
5. Hall of fame

19. Scraim Agile Gamification
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Challenges
Title
Description
Options

20. Scraim Agile Gamification
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Assistance
Title
Anonym?
Description
Project?

21. Scraim Agile Gamification
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Notifications
Notifications central
Someone has answered your question. Do you want to say thanks and
classify the answer?
Mark as read
See request Back

22. Scraim Agile Gamification
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Tasks
Team Status
General info

23. Scraim Agile Gamification
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Hall of Fame
Best Challenges
Top answers
Top accuracy
Top team workers
Best Projects

24. BENEFITS

25. Lessons Learned
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• Simple and intuitive elements
• Non intrusive elements
• Promoting the interaction between users with mutual
assistance strategy
• Use of the Surprise Element
• Promoting the Agile best practices of the SaaS

26. Thanks to you & Agile Portugal

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