On Thursday I went to the following sessions

• Stages of Practice : the Agile tech tree by Arlo Belshee and James Shore
• The Agile Scaling Model (ASM) : Be Agile as you need to be by Scott Ambler
• Telling better stories with User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton
• Slackers and Debtors : Meet commitments, reduce debt and improve performance by James Shore

My Thursday afternoon started with my first and unique session at the Little America Hotel, with Jeff Patton. Jeff told us a story, or better said, he taught us how to build a story map. Most of people who are experienced in Agile know about user stories.

As an Agile practionner
I want to write user stories
So that my requirements are clear, short, focused, well understood, shared, easy to maintain, etc.

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On Thursday I went to the following sessions

• Stages of Practice : the Agile tech tree by Arlo Belshee and James Shore
• The Agile Scaling Model (ASM) : Be Agile as you need to be by Scott Ambler
• Telling better stories with User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton
• Slackers and Debtors : Meet commitments, reduce debt and improve performance by James Shore

On the fourth day of Agile2011, my subconscious brain seemed to have decided that I needed a little fun, because I did a lot of sessions about games and workshops.

It started with the morning session where Arlo Belshee tried to have us create a Civilization like tech tree for Agile. For those who don’t know the game, in Civilization, the tech tree represent a tree of different technologies that you acquire with experience. Technologies are organized in different branches (Sea, Religion, …) and to discover a new technology, it is first necessary to discover the prerequisite technologies (for example, democracy can only be discovered after the printing press). You also have Wonders of the World and many other things that make your civilization more advanced and more powerful. To summarize, that’s what leads your civilization from obscurantism to space travel. Continue reading →