Add more details to the instructions for the Lego simulation

Explain a bit more what the objectives of each teams are, adding ideas
and few practical examples of how to conduct the game.

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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Using Lego to represent the community
- PTLs
- Core team
- Companies
- Free agents
- Unaffiliated contributors (free agents)
Your mission, should you choose to accept it
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@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ Choosing roles - Upstream
- PTL : 1
- Core : 5
Upstream is responsible for the finished product.
Choosing roles - Companies
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@ -59,6 +61,8 @@ Each company has:
- CEO : 1
- Team members : 3-5
Companies have to deliver value to their stakeholders.
Choosing roles - Free agent contributors
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@ -66,6 +70,8 @@ Choosing roles - Free agent contributors
- Controversial : 1
- Agreeable : 2-3
Each individual sets their own objective.
Timing
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@ -266,18 +266,21 @@ understand the metaphors in use. The Lego in the exercise represents the
code of a software project, in this case OpenStack. The students all take
on roles that represent various facets of the OpenStack community, including
upstream roles like Foundation and TCT, and contributors like corporations,
and individual free agents.
and unaffiliated individuals animated by unknown motives (free agents).
The group is split into their new 'teams' at this stage. Facilitators can
choose any way they prefer to do this (selecting teams, or allowing students
to self-select). The recommended numbers are in the slides, but can be
changed to suit the number of participants in the room. For a very large
group, consider separating into two 'communities', which then have to
fit their streets together (use the metaphor of an API for this) to
complete the session. Give each person a nametag to wear, with their first
name and their role written on it. For free agents, don't disclose who
is distracted, controversial, or agreeable. The community will need to
work this out on their own.
fit their streets together to complete the session. Having more
communities requires an extra level of coordination to reach
`interoperability` between the results of their work.
Give each person a nametag to wear, with their first name and their
role written on it. For free agents, don't disclose who is distracted,
controversial, or agreeable. The community will need to work this out
on their own.
Contribution Simulation (2 hour)
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@ -292,11 +295,20 @@ understanding of the project, begin the timer for the first sprint. During
the five minutes planning time, encourage each group to get together and
think about their project. If possible, give each group a corner of the room
and access to a whiteboard or flipchart. For companies, ensure the CEO sets
a direction, and the team are on board. For upstream, have them think about
the community standards they want to set. Free agent contributors can get
straight to work during this phase.
a direction, and the team is on board. Their responsibility is to
deliver value to their stakeholders. For upstream, have them think about
the community standards they want to set: they are responsible for the
quality of the finished product. For free agent contributors,
use this time to get them to understand their role in the simulation:
explain their part as agents of chaos. They can get straight to work
as soon as they understand their role, no need to wait for the timer
to go off. The free agents should not be forced to coordinate among
themselves: there are better results if they find out how hard it is
to accomplish anything without coordinating with others. In theory,
the free agents can decide to demolish things, too: try suggesting
this option to one of them, see what happens.
Suggestions:
Suggestions of projects to work on:
* Companies: big industrial items like a shopping mall, carpark, energy
plant, datacenter, hospital.
@ -308,17 +320,24 @@ Suggestions:
* Upstream: consider guidelines around consistency in the bricks used, how to
connect the road and sidewalk between the buildings, the kinds of
buildings they should request the community to make, and the things they
simply will not accept.
simply will not accept. Make them understand that they are
responsible for the finished product.
Start the timer for building time, and allow everyone to start work. During
each building phase, have mentors wander around the groups listening in and
making suggestions, without actually doing any of the work or giving answers.
making suggestions, without actually doing any of the work or giving
answers. The role of the mentors is to ask questions to orient the
conversations among the teams. For example, during the first sprint it
is common that the CEO and the PTL will face incompatibility of their
plans. Mentors should ask the teams how to address those issues.
In your interactions with the students, do not be afraid to provoke some
issues. For example, bring up the idea of an API (a way of connecting the
buildings to each other) with individual companies, but don't mention it
to upstream, so that upstream are finally faced with the challenge of
standardizing the API. You could also, in the second or third sprint,
encourage one group to call a midcycle to sort the problem out.
encourage one group to call for a meeting off the sprint cycle to sort
the problem out.
During the final five minutes of the sprint (review time), ask everyone to
take their hands off the Lego, and gather around the in-progress street. At