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Games For Requirements Angela Wick BA-Squared, LLC

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Angela Wick •  CBAP, PMP, PBA, ICP-ACC, ICP-BVA •  IIBA BABoK v3 Committee •  IIBA Competency Model Chair •  IIBA Agile Ext. Team •  BATimes Blogger •  PMI BA Guide Expert Reviewer •  Lynda.com Author •  UMN BA Instructor •  BA Mentor & Coach •  Agile BA Advocate •  Agile PO Coach

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•  Consulting –  BA/Requirements Practices –  Agile Requirements –  Agile BA/PO

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What if …

Requirements meetings were ?

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Meetings Should Be FUN! •  In the US along, we spend $37 Billion in

unnecessary meetings each year.

•  As BAs, each of us are responsible for about $1 million per year in meeting spend

•  Over 70% of people bring other work to meetings

•  The number one source of missed or poor requirements is lack of stakeholder involvement


Games Make Meetings Worthwhile! BABOK v3 – New Technique: 10.10 Collaborative Games Several structured techniques to inspire game play and facilitate collaboration

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Scenario

Mobile Wallet App Product Vision – For banks and their customers, this is an app that banks can brand to their name/logo for customers to use as a “mobile wallet”. With the Mobile Wallet, customers can pay for transactions at retailers with their phone and transfer money to someone else with the app.

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Game – Mood Ring Determining what aspects, features and aFributes of a soluIon, product, service or system would make a customer feel different ways. 1.  Select three emoIons you want to explore 2.  In small groups use the flip chart and draw out 3 secIons

and label them with the three emoIons. 3.  Silently and individually brainstorm what would make a

user feel these emoIons using the app, one idea per sIcky note.

4.  Then, discuss as a group

Frustrated – Confused -‐ Very Happy


Game – Wizard of Oz Role play with 2 people the “machine”/ human interacIon to surface expectaIons, flow, excepIons, etc . . . 1.  Select 2 people in the group, the rest our observers. 2.  Of the 2 people selected, one is the “machine” and

the other is the user. 3.  Using improvisaIon, act out the interacIon

between the user and machine to pay for a mocha laFe at Caribou. •  User – You express what you expect to tap/

touch/etc… based on your expectaIons of the app.

•  Machine – You much present opIons for the user to tap/touch/enter.

4.   Observers: What is missing, doesn't’t flow right, rules, excepIons, scenarios needed to create?

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Games – What If? Exploring excepIons, rules, and scenarios 1.  Select a user goal or process step to focus on 2.  In small groups use the flip chart and sIcky

notes. On the flip chart at the top, label the chart with the user goal name or process step name “Pay for retail item” (ie: coffee).

3.  Silently and individually brainstorm “What if” scenarios for the app, user perspecIve

4.  Then, discuss as a group, group like ideas together.


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