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A Game Toolbox for Process Improvement in Agile Teams

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2017)

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This paper demonstrates the use of game techniques for Software Process Improvement. InnoBox, a game toolbox for process improvement and innovation in agile teams is presented. Authors selected 12 collaborative games to be used in team meetings. Each game card in InnoBox has been created and classified based on a design thinking approach and team maturity level. InnoBox is a ready to use tool designed for agile teams to facilitate, innovate and improve communication, cohesion and their way of working.

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This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology with ERDF funds under grants TIN2016-76956-C3-3-R and TIN2013-46928-C3-2-R and by the Erasmus Mundus Euroweb+ project.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Balearic Islands, Cra. de Valldemossa, km 7.5, 07122, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

    Antoni-Lluís Mesquida, Miloš Jovanović & Antònia Mas

  2. Institute of Digital Business, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Strasse 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Jovana Karać

  3. Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 6, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Miloš Jovanović

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  1. Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

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  2. Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

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  3. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O'Connor

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Mesquida, AL., Karać, J., Jovanović, M., Mas, A. (2017). A Game Toolbox for Process Improvement in Agile Teams. In: Stolfa, J., Stolfa, S., O'Connor, R., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 748. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64218-5_25

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