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Game mechanisms

  1. Team management: Manage your own teams of project members (assignments, training etc.).
  2. Competitive cooperation: Compete for the project roles but cooperate to close the projects.
  3. Conflicting objectives: Choose and work against the conflicting objectives of time, cost and quality.
  4. Go/nogo meetings: Select projects and vote whether to continue them or to close and score them.
  5. Educational: The game teaches project management in a game context

Annotated Games: Version 0.2, 4 players

This game was played during the game testing of Find the Bug! Kanban.

Iteration 1

Plan phase

The players start the work item cards A, B, C and D in addition to 2 design cubes and 1 build cube each. In the plan phase 4 blue cubes, 4 yellow cubes and 4 red cubes are added to the pool. In turn order, they choose the following:

Player 1Player 2Player 3Player 4
YellowRedWork item IBlue
Work item GYellowBlueWork item E
YellowBlueBlueYellow
RedWork item HRedRed
Work item A, G
2 blue, 3 yellow, 1 red		 Work item B, H
3 blue, 2 yellow, 1 red		 Work item C, I
4 blue, 1 yellow, 1 red		 Work item D, E
3 blue, 2 yellow, 1 red

Work phase

After having acquired cubes matching their initial cards, the players focus on pushing their low value cards forward to make room for higher ones. Player 1 and 3 also manage to start their G and I cards respectively.

Player 1Player 2Player 3Player 4
Roll 1: 0 blue needed
Roll 6: 3 yellow needed
Card A: 1/3 yellow		Roll 4: 2 blue needed
Card B: 1/2 blue		Roll 6: 4 blue needed
Card C: 1/4 blue		Roll 2: 2 blue needed
Card E: 1/2 blue
Card A: 2/3 yellowCard B: 2/2 blueCard C: 2/4 blueCard E: 2/2 blue
Card A: 3/3 yellowRoll 5: 4 yellow needed
Card B: 1/4 yellow		Trade yellow for player 1's blue
Card C: 3/4 blue		Roll 3: 1 yellow needed
Card E: 1/1 yellow
Roll 3: 3 red needed
Card A: 1/3 red		Trade red for player 4's yellow
Card B: 2/4 yellow		Card C: 4/4 blueRoll 5: 4 red needed
Card E: 1/4 red
Roll 5: 3 blue needed
Card G: 1/3 blue		Card B: 3/4 yellowRoll 5: 2 blue needed
Card I: 1/2 blue		Card E: 2/4 red
A in Test, G in Design
1 yellow		 B in Build, H in Backlog
1 blue		 C in Design, I in design
1 red		 E in Test, D in Backlog
1 blue

To be continued.

P&P (PDF, A4)

P&P (PDF, US Letter)



Annotated games

Complete test games are presented under Annotated Games.


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