Fun at a 59 Minute Scrum

Last night i had lots of fun at the '59 Minute Scrum' hosted by the BCS Spa specialist group. Our project was to produce a tourist brochure for Martians visiting earth. The product backlog included the following items:

• Create cover art, brand, and/or logo
• Define major topics for Martian tourism
• Describe "Art interests in Europe" tour
• Describe a tour based on photosynthesis
• Outline a "7 Wonders of the World" expedition
• Set prices for the tours
• Outline warning messages (gravity. oxygen, fungi, etc)
• Suggest clothing options
• Explain travel options to/from Mars
• Describe a "Human Sports" tour
• Outline refund policy
• Suggest related services
• Define advertisers
• Define a 12-month campaign
• Set-up how to get more information

Our Product Owner emphasised that in terms of business value, the most important thing was to get at least one tour operating so that revenue could be made to support various other tours. Our Sprint Goal was therefore unimaginatively titled "The First Tour". The Sprint Backlog included the following items:

• Create cover art, brand, and/or logo
• Describe a "Human Sports" tour
• Set prices for the tour
• Outline warning messages (gravity. oxygen, fungi, etc)
• Suggest clothing options

We managed to achieve the goal with some juggling of tasks guided by the Daily Scrums. Here's the cover of our first brochure:

59minutescrum
Originally uploaded by sjb140470.

The event slides can be downloaded from here.

Here are the original materials:
Instructions
Product backlogs


Tags: agile, scrum

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