{"id":1097,"date":"2011-04-18T12:57:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T12:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agilityfeat.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2011-04-18T12:57:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T12:57:30","slug":"agilecville-failure-pattern-poker-on-april-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agilityfeatpanama.com\/en\/blog\/2011\/04\/agilecville-failure-pattern-poker-on-april-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"AgileCville:  Failure Pattern Poker on April 19th!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Let&#8217;s play an agile game!<\/h2>\n<p><b>Tomorrow will be the next Agile Cville meeting at OpenSpace in Charlottesville, from 6-8pm.<\/b>\u00a0 The topic this month is \u00abAgile Failure Patterns\u00bb, and I agreed to kick off the discussion.\u00a0 Rather than start off the meeting with power point, I think we&#8217;ll try a game instead to get the discussion going.<\/p>\n<p>I have in mind a very simple game card game, which I encourage you to give me feedback on.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll suggest these rules (modified by any ideas you provide me) for the first round, and then encourage the group at the meeting to reflect and revise the rules for a second round.\u00a0 Or if it&#8217;s not working and conversation is going fine without the game, we&#8217;ll just drop it.\u00a0 Either way it will serve it&#8217;s main purpose as a conversation starter!<\/p>\n<h2>Draft rules for round one<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Each person gets a set of \u00abfailure pattern\u00bb cards, with a quick title of a failure pattern.\u00a0 Any detailed description to explain the pattern will have to be supplied (or made up) by the person playing the card.<\/li>\n<li>Each person also gets a set of \u00abremedy\u00bb cards, with a quick title of an agile practice on it.<\/li>\n<li>Each person also gets \u00abwild cards\u00bb which are basically blank, and they can use to add in their own failure patterns or remedies on the fly.<\/li>\n<li>The person to left of the dealer starts.\u00a0 They play any of their \u00abfailure pattern\u00bb cards, and describe the failure pattern.\u00a0 Ideally they also describe a real world situation they have seen related to that failure pattern.<\/li>\n<li>Play continues to the left, and each person plays a \u00abremedy\u00bb card, and describes a way to combat that failure pattern.<\/li>\n<li>If a player feels that the current \u00abfailure pattern\u00bb has been adequately addressed, or they just want to change the topic, they play another of their \u00abfailure pattern\u00bb cards.<\/li>\n<li>Discussion is encouraged throughout.\u00a0 If the discussion is really good, I suspect we&#8217;ll have people attempting to play \u00abremedy\u00bb cards out of turn, and we&#8217;ll just go with the flow and see how it works.\u00a0 Perhaps there should be betting chips too?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think of this game?\u00a0 What failure patterns do you propose I put on the cards?\u00a0 What remedies?\u00a0 Please either post your suggestions to this blog post or on twitter to @ArinSime.<\/p>\n<h2>Sponsors:  Your name could be here!<\/h2>\n<p>Also, I should mention that AgileCville is looking for sponsors for this month&#8217;s event.\u00a0 If you agree today to buy us pizza (about $60), then I&#8217;ll put your company&#8217;s logo on all the playing cards when I make them tonight, and I&#8217;ll also make sure to promote your company on my blog, tweets about the event, and at the event itself.\u00a0 Just email me at Arin@AgilityFeat.com or message me on Twitter @ArinSime to sponsor us!<\/p>\n<h2>See you Tuesday!<\/h2>\n<p>Finally, if you&#8217;re in the Charlottesville Virginia area tomorrow, please stop by AgileCville!\u00a0 The meeting is from 6-8 PM on Tuesday April 19th, at OpenSpace (455 Second Street SE, Suite 100, Charlottesville, VA\u00a0 22902)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s play an agile game! 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