Traditionally, team members would get together would get together with a deck of cards to estimate efforts required to fulfil a software projects tasks. Planning poker (also called scrum poker) is a gamified technique used for estimating story points in an agile environment. The team managed to develop a working prototype in less than a week! We are hoping to use our monthly innovation days to keep building on this to develop a final product that we can use both internally and with all of our clients- watch this space!
xBoard will better capture and map user journeys and high-level story requirements in one shareable, living document. We would be able to use ‘xBoard” to share our user stories both with clients and internal stakeholders. Alanna knew that we could get an amazing team together to develop our own application that would address the existing frustrations.
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We have been using a third party tool to generate our user stories but it doesn’t offer the full functionality that we need. The focus was on creating an xDesign user story platform that meets our needs (you can read her blog here about the importance of user story mapping). This project was headed up by one of our Product Owners- Alanna Innes. Here’s a quick look at what the teams got up to: xBoard - A Story Mapping Tool We had a good number of projects going on at the end of last year. We also set up games and the Raspberry pi for times when people fancy taking a quick break. We get the snacks in, provide lunch and some drinks at the end of the day. We try and make the week as fun and collaborative as possible and everyone (even the “non-techy”) people get involved with a project that interests them. This normally includes setting out what they want to achieve by the end of the week, who is doing what on the project, what technologies are being used and how they will divide their time to achieve the end goal. Our teams then self assemble and come up with a project plan. They’ll explain their reasoning behind it and the resource they’re looking for to help them build and design the solution. So, what happens in our annual hack week? In December, every team member gets the opportunity to pitch their own projects to the company. The objective? To develop processes and systems that help us to deliver the very best mobile applications and digital solutions that go above and beyond our client (and our own!) expectations. Much like the Google 20% time model, we incorporate this mentality into xDesign and encourage all of our team to work on their own ideas and projects on the last Friday of the month. We take the last week of the year off, stop all client work and use this time to innovate and organise into teams and come up with innovative and new solutions to help us continue to grow as a company.Ģ018 was our biggest and best year yet, but with that also comes challenges with scaling and ensuring that everyone has sufficient time to dedicate towards improving our own processes and looking at alternative ways we can deliver value for our clients. The xDesign annual hack week is something everyone looks forward to every year.
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