The draft game
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the bi-weekly Developer Baseball Draft – an innovative, engaging, and fun way to turn your product development process into a game. Picture this: you and your fellow developers, the core of the company’s lineup, are gearing up for the next sprint. Today isn’t your ordinary run-of-the-mill planning session; this is the grandest baseball-themed draft the world of software engineering has ever seen.
The atmosphere in the room is electric as the anticipation builds. You and your six teammates, united by months of camaraderie and a shared passion for creating outstanding products, gather around to await the big reveal. The coach-like product manager strides in, emulating the confidence of Alex Rodriguez, and unveils the scoreboard: 35 tantalizing tickets, each representing a diverse range of user stories, bugs, and technical debt.
Questions race through your mind like Ricky Henderson stealing a base as you survey...