I guess that makes sense: With the dojo we want to encourage
participation, whereas with the game challenges I was thinking of, they
are optimised to producing finished, working projects (where a proven
track record is a good positive indicator.)
Jonathan
On 15/07/13 13:33, Stestagg wrote:
I wonder, with the dojo happening every month, and most people turning
up most times, if this might turn into a bit of a popularity contest.
If a leader won last time, then people will be more likely to go for
the 'safe option' and join that person next time.
I do like the current method of having random team choices
Steve
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:14 PM, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com
<mailto:ren...@gmail.com>> wrote:
That could work with a theme... the goal doesn't have to be a
game? It's more inventing the problem as you go?
Unrelated thought for a good exercise... new requirements are
introduced at half time... and then 5 minutes before the end...
like real life.
On Jul 15, 2013 2:05 PM, "Jonathan Hartley" <tart...@tartley.com
<mailto:tart...@tartley.com>> wrote:
I don't think this helps, but it's a model I think is
otherwise widely applicable, so I'll spread the seed:
One model I've seen work well on game programming challenges
is that self-selected leaders will each pitch their project
vision, and then participants will decide which leader's team
they would like to join. Leaders may also prefer other pitches
to their own, and decide to revoke or merge pitches
(generally, only one leader in a merged pitch will retain the
'leader' tag)
This has advantages that:
* self-selected leaders are vetted by the crowd. If they are
revealed, during their pitch, to be blustering buffoons, then
people can vote with their feet.
* everyone gets to work with the project/leadership that they
choose, so in theory happiness is maximised (for everyone
apart from the 'failed' project leaders.)
* projects which are popular are allocated correspondingly
generous personpower.
The disadvantages are:
* It isn't remotely relevant to our current dojo format
* It doesn't give even distribution of team sizes
Jonathan
On 12/07/13 20:53, xtian wrote:
I like the sound of this - Scrapheap Challenge style. You're
right, it would take a bit more organisation though.
On 12 Jul 2013, at 14:31, Alistair Broomhead
<alistair.broomh...@gmail.com
<mailto:alistair.broomh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Something that may may not work (I guess it would take a
fair amount of organisation) once a challenge has been
picked, we ask people to volunteer as team leaders, they get
a git repo set up and write tests, but their main role is to
advise their team and give them a nudge on things which are
stopping them from progressing. This would mean that each
team has an 'expert', but I guess it would also mean people
who were willing to take this role would have to bring a
laptop off their own -an issue for me as I don't own one...
On 12 Jul 2013 14:19, "Javier Llopis" <jav...@correo.com
<mailto:jav...@correo.com>> wrote:
>> Another person could simply say: mmm... interesting
but... not for my
>> level. And stop coming. Do you really want this?
>
> When all's said and done, if someone doesn't think
it's for them, then
> it's not for them. We can try to be as accommodating
as possible, but
> you can't please all the people all the time.
>
...And in this case, I would rather try to keep the
expert coders in
instead of the newbies. Better be challenged than bored.
Just my 2p
J
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