Activity - buy a feature

[kf4lnq]

I would like to submit an activity called buy a feature.

[kf4lnq]

/assign kf4lnq

[kf4lnq]

I opened this trying commit a branch with my wiki page. I can't seem to create a branch in the remote repo from command line or UI.

Can you please grant me permissions or share how to submit my content? Thanks!

initial draft attached:

* Author: Joe O'Brien and Will McKinley
* Objective: Gamification of feature negotiation between competing stakeholder priorities 
* Duration: 30 minutes
* Make People Awesome: yes
* Make Safety a Prerequisite: yes
* Experiment and Learn Rapidly: yes 
* Deliver Value Continuously: no

Desired features are put up on cards with "prices" set on them based on complexity to build, business value, scope of impact.  These prices are set by the facilitator with the development team.  Each stakeholder with competing priorities as well as the development team manager is given a "budget" in pretend/toy paper money.  

The prices on the features and the total pool of money is designed by the facilitator to be a third of the total sum of priced features available.  Each feature is "priced" by increasing the price for complexity and narrow scope of impact, and decreasing the price for low effort/high value features.  High value/high effort features are priced higher than any one buyer can afford alone.  

Buyers, together or alone, "buy" the features by handing the feature card and play money for its value to the facilitator and announcing the purchase to the room.   

The pool of money and the prices are engineered to force choices and encourage negotiation between the buyers.  The facilitator should encourage the buyers to discuss common needs and pooling their funds to purchase high value features that they can not afford alone.  Features can be negotiated as well, by reducing complexity or scope to reduce the price, or splitting one expensive feature into multiple smaller/cheaper features.  Prices can even be increased if the discussion leads to understanding the feature is more complex or lower value than initially thought.

The exercise should be tweaked as needed to foster healthy conflict with safe negotiation.  The tangible "money" and act of "spending" their limited budgets and needing to work together to fund common goals is incredibly effective at aligning stakeholder interests especially when first starting a project with a broad loosely defined scope.  It is fun too!

[mperes]

Hey @kf4lnq

I believe if you fork the wiki (https://github.com/modernagile/modernagile.github.io.wiki.git) than clone it to your local machine push to your own repo and do a merge request it will work. Check this link for a more details:

https://gist.github.com/larrybotha/10650410