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Title: Extreme Startup
Proposer: robert_chatley
Type: Workshop
Duration: 90 minutes
Description: In this hands-on workshop we aim to simulate product teams building software and delivering it into a market. Attendees form teams and compete to build the best product. Through the session you can continue to refine and upgrade your software, releasing new versions and testing their performance in the market. Once your software is live it will begin to accrue points, as simulated users use the software and score it against how well it fits their needs. The earlier you release your software, the sooner you will start accruing points, and the earlier you can learn something about the market, which should inform your next iteration. In the lean startup movement, this is known as the Build-Measure-Learn cycle.
The aim of the workshop is to simulate software development in a quickly changing environment, where agile techniques should excel. How quickly can we iterate? What are the bottlenecks? Which techniques are most valuable? Do any fall by the wayside? Are any particular languages better or worse in this environment?
Each team needs at least one developer, but product managers can also actively take part in the simulation.
Teams need a laptop (or more than one) with development tools allowing them to build and run a small webapp in a language of their choice (e.g. Ruby, Java, Python, C#, nodejs, Scala etc etc).
As a practical session, this is a great chance to have some fun showing off your coding skills as well as your project management strategies, and hopefully think about the above questions.
This workshop has been run successfully at a number of conferences including: XPDays, XP2011, ROOTS 2012 and Agile on the Beach.
http://chatley.com/posts/05-27-2011/extreme-startup/
Roger: Yes - but how many attendees will it support? (and there are other similar offerings - would we just want one of them?)
Asti: plus it's been run so many places that many of our members interested in that sort of thing will prolly have been to. I say no
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