program selection system

This course will use the release planning game to explore various project planning strategies. The game is played in small groups of approximately four players. Both programmers and customers may play, in any combination.

In each cycle of the game, the players plan and “implement” a product. Each time through, they learn some new lessons enabling them to plan and implement better next time. Scoring is based upon each team’s total return on investment

In this client organization, agile methods were not producing expected improvements, primarily because the stakeholders could not agree on priorities of the work. The team decided to use extremely short iterations to expose the problems caused by a lack of prioritization.