This tutorial, the “small card game”, is a simulation game introducing the concepts of Agile planning, story value, and story cost. Learn to manage scope and optimize return on investment. The students practice planning a project with varying levels of information about the features needed, and experience how “nature” deals with their plan. Again, very appropriate for all team members, in-house customers, marketing, and management, to learn how the process works and what their part in it is.

This tutorial will provide you with a proven process for how to prioritize a backlog for profit. It will debunk the mistaken theory that you can prioritize a backlog for ROI and provide concrete examples of how to structure backlogs to meet the needs of key stakeholders, align your backlog to corporate strategy, and show how your release will drive profit. By following the process described in this tutorial, agile product managers / product owners can create backlogs that support the company’s longer-term goals as well as short-term development needs.