The Super Hero Experiment

Main goals of the hands-on :

• Strengthen collaboration between different profiles (Dev, Ops, Testers, Security, Product Owners, Architects )
• Experiment new ways of working together (DevOps, Agile, Example Mapping)
• Test business/tech communication capabilities
• Test auto organization capabilities

Logistics

The game requires a day to be run and debriefed. Each team must have a separate space with a paper board/ white board. It can be run with one facilitor for 2 teams of 10 players.

Before playing

The Hero Corp site is needed to run the hands-on. The participants app will be required to call the API in order to request hero characteristics. It also serves as documentation point for participants

Run the Hero Corp site on a local machine

You'll need Java 8 runtime environment. To run the site, go at the root of the repository and launch

.\gradlew bootFullApplication

Default port is 8080

If you intent to use a local computer to run he game, make sure that other computers can reach it

Host the Hero Corp site somewhere else

Build the app with

.\gradlew packageFullApplication

The result jar is in the back/build/libs directory

You'll need a Java 8 enable environment to launch the app

java -jar heroCorp-0.1.0.jar

The app is a spring boot fat jar, see Spring Boot documentation to tweak execution.

See you hosting environment for more details ;o)

Use a preinstalled version

https://superheroexperiment.azurewebsites.net

Service is not garanteed ;o)

Grab the slides and the docs

Consult the Hero Corp website to grab your slides and some technical docs for the participants

Emissary guideline

See the Emissary Guide and The Rules