<div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>If a leader won last time, then people will be more likely to go for the 'safe option' and join that person next time.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I do like the current method of having random team choices</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:14 PM, René Dudfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:renesd@gmail.com" target="_blank">renesd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>That could work with a theme... the goal doesn't have to be a game? It's more inventing the problem as you go?</p>
<p>Unrelated thought for a good exercise... new requirements are introduced at half time... and then 5 minutes before the end... like real life.</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 15, 2013 2:05 PM, "Jonathan Hartley" <<a href="mailto:tartley@tartley.com" target="_blank">tartley@tartley.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I don't think this helps, but it's a
model I think is otherwise widely applicable, so I'll spread the
seed:<br>
<br>
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)<br>
<br>
This has advantages that:<br>
<br>
* 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.<br>
<br>
* 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.)<br>
<br>
* projects which are popular are allocated correspondingly
generous personpower.<br>
<br>
The disadvantages are:<br>
<br>
* It isn't remotely relevant to our current dojo format<br>
<br>
* It doesn't give even distribution of team sizes<br>
<br>
Jonathan<br>
<br>
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On 12/07/13 20:53, xtian wrote:<br>
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<div>I like the sound of this - Scrapheap Challenge style. You're
right, it would take a bit more organisation though.</div>
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On 12 Jul 2013, at 14:31, Alistair Broomhead <<a href="mailto:alistair.broomhead@gmail.com" target="_blank">alistair.broomhead@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">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...</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 12 Jul 2013 14:19, "Javier Llopis"
<<a href="mailto:javier@correo.com" target="_blank">javier@correo.com</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution">
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>> Another person could simply say: mmm...
interesting but... not for my<br>
>> level. And stop coming. Do you really want this?<br>
><br>
> When all's said and done, if someone doesn't think
it's for them, then<br>
> it's not for them. We can try to be as accommodating
as possible, but<br>
> you can't please all the people all the time.<br>
><br>
<br>
...And in this case, I would rather try to keep the expert
coders in<br>
instead of the newbies. Better be challenged than bored.<br>
<br>
Just my 2p<br>
<br>
J<br>
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