You should attend because…

• You can hear about new techniques
• You can hear how other companies apply techniques
• You can meet other people who are interested in improving the way they work
• You can share experience with people who’ve been using Agile methods for anything between 0 and 10 years (and some people who have been applying Agile, before “Agile” existed )
• You can tryout a session you want to run at a conference
• You can attend conference sessions for free

You should host a meeting because…

• You want to let your employees learn more about Agile
• You want a session about a certain topic that will benefit your company
• You want to find people who have Agile experience
• You get 20-30 Agile consultants to help you with a topic and it costs nothing more than some food and drinks

If you want to host a meeting

Contact us and we’ll work with you to create a user group meeting that benefits your company. All you have to do is choose an interesting topic and provide a room, some food and drinks for the participants.

How do you prioritize your features and stories?

Agile teams want to deliver maximum business value. That’s easy if the Onsite Customer assigns business value to each story. But how does the Customer do that? How can you estimate business value?

How do you decide between stories? How do you decide between projects? How do you decide between clients?

This game gives you some simple business value estimation techniques that are “good enough” for everyday use.

Teams of ‘businesspeople’ have to make plans for their development team. The goal of the game is to earn as much money as possible. This game is a complement to the XP Game: how do these ‘business value points” on the XP Game story cards get chosen?

We provide the clients and their wishes. We suggest the techniques to estimate business value.

The rest is up to you.

Want to play the game?

NEW: version 2.0

• Download the game instructions and materials in English (approx 3 Mb)
• Download the game instructions and materials in French (approx 3 Mb)
• New: Download the game instructions and materials in Spanish (approx 4 Mb)

Changes from previous version:

• More Requests
• Clarified score sheet
• More process improvement options
• Pictures for accountant and development team

Thank you to:

• Portia Tung for help in designing and testing the game
• Laurent Morisseau for help with the French translation
• Juan Gutiérrez Plaza for translating the game into Spanish. Thanks to Leo Antolí and Thomas Wallet for reviewing this translation

Version 1.1

Download the game instructions and materials (approx 3.5 Mb)

Client pictures made with “South Park Studio” by Janina Köppel

• the planning game?
• velocity?
• story estimation?
• short releases?
• making predictable plans?
• how to explain these things in your company?

Want to…

• play the planning game? (…but maybe in another role)
• feel the velocity of your team?
• see it work?
• let both business people and developers experience it?
• have fun?

The XP Game is a playful way to familiarize the players with some of the more difficult concepts of the XP Planning Game, like velocity, story estimation, yesterday’s weather and the cycle of life. Anyone can participate. The goal is to make development and business people work together, they both play both roles. It’s especially useful when a company starts adopting XP.

Want to know more?

Then you’re ready to go to the detailed description. Or, if you want to, you can go immediately to the download center. Have you played the game?  Let us know how it went and what we can improve . Read testimonials of people who played it.

The XP Game is developed by Vera Peeters (Tryx) and Pascal Van Cauwenberghe (Nayima).

Feedback? Questions? Need help organizing the game? Contact us: info