Inc. All rights reserved. The studio gives us an environment that is optimized for maximum effectiveness. This allows us to dynamically match our developers' skill sets to the difficulty of the task at hand, potentially borrowing developers from other projects or from our international network of Senior Consulting Specialists to tackle short-term challenges without any bureaucratic hassle. The development team and the customer walk to the conference room where there are plenty of whiteboards and a big table. The customer starts talking about what the system needs to do.
Developers ask clarifying questions.
The customer answers them. There is only one story that the team doesn't understand how to estimate, so Chris and Michael jump to a computer to explore it as a pair. They're done in about two hours. While they were gone, the rest of the team has been busy breaking stories down into tasks that they can estimate discretely. The artifact of The Planning Game is a stack of index cards containing customer stories, which will drive the project's iterations.