More than XP. More than one day.

How is your project doing ? How long does it take to find out what’s going on? Where is the essential information? Is it hidden, squirreled away inside thousand-line code files, spreadsheets and Word documents ? Or is it “in your face”, shown where you can’t help but see it every day ? A successful project isn’t successful because the team makes no mistakes, or suffers no setbacks. Whether your project sinks or swims is determined not by circumstance but by the speed and quality of your team’s response. This tutorial presents simple techniques to make project status visible early and continuously, so a team can respond effectively. The techniques can be implemented with simple office tools: flipcharts, markers and yellow stickies.

The majority of coding dojos are run using reasonably well known langauges such as Java. While this allows relatively complex problems to be solved, it also allows participants to take relatively large steps and get away with it. This dojo uses the same format as that created by Laurent Bossavit and Emmanuel Gaillot, but is aimed at reinforcing the idea of taking baby steps. This is achieved by using a language we hope is not known to the participants.