Innovation Games® Online & VersionOne:
Solving the Hard Problems in Agile Software Development
The integration of Innovation Games® Online with VersionOne’s industry-leading Agile Management tool enables VersionOne customers to use the Innovation Game® Buy a Feature Online to solve one of the hardest problems in agile software development: Determining the priority of user stories with customers and stakeholders.
The Problem:
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that customers and stakeholders have clearly defined product priorities. Some do. Most don’t. When presented with a set of options, many customers will simply say “I want them all” and put the responsibility for prioritizing their requests on the shoulders of product planners. Alternatively, product managers often gather feature priorities by working with customers one-on-one and, in the process, and perhaps without even realizing it, again take responsibility for prioritizing features.
The Solution:
Innovation Games’ virtual market game Buy a Feature Online circumvents these issues by enabling customers and stakeholders to prioritize their desires as a group. The game encourages negotiation and discussion, which in addition to the game results enhances your understanding of what your customers really want.
In the integration with VersionOne, VersionOne users select user stories and export them into Buy a Feature Online. They then play Buy a Feature with customers or internal stakeholders to prioritize these stories. When finished, the system automatically imports the results back into VersionOne’s platform. The solution provides for all of the advantage of real-time, interactive, collaborative games—without the added cost or complexity of bringing participants physically together.
Seamless, Secure and Easy-to-Use
The integration of Innovation Games® Online and VersionOne‘s hosted application is seamless and secure, allowing VersionOne users to quickly and easily export user stories into Buy a Feature Online, play the game and import the prioritized results back into VersionOne.
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Select items from within VersionOne to be exported into Innovation Games Online.
Play Buy a Feature Online to prioritize user stories: The system records all discussion via the chat log, while also keeping track of the game's event stream, bids and purchases.
The games results are imported back into VersionOne, so that you can to prioritize your next sprint. The numer of games and number of purchases are are recorded.
