---
title: "November at Agile Israel - The XP Planning Game"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/21/november-at-agile-israel-the-xp-planning-game.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/21/november-at-agile-israel-the-xp-planning-game.html"
published: "2005-11-21T12:53:00"
updated: "2005-11-21T12:53:00"
tags: ["Agile Related", "Community"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "The next meeting will be held on the 28th of this Month, Monday. For session and speaker details go the the event page . This month's meeting will be dedicated to \"The Planning Game\", held by Amir Kolsky. In the first…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# November at Agile Israel - The XP Planning Game

By Roy Osherove November 21, 2005 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Community](https://osherove.com/blog/category/community)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 21, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

**The next meeting will be held on the 28th of this Month, Monday.**

For session and speaker details go the the event page.

This month's meeting will be dedicated to "The Planning Game", held by Amir Kolsky.

In the first part Amir will talk about:      

"The planning game" - How to plan releases and iterations in extreme programming.

The division of responsibility and the roles played by the participants in the game.

We will address the following issues:

1\. Responsibilities and consequences

2\. Release stories, iteration stories and tasks

3\. How to estimate release and iteration stories

4\. Tracking mechanisms.

The second part of the meeting we will attempt to play the game with the attendees 

**Agenda:**

17:30 - 18:00 - **Arrival & Registration**

18:00 - 19:15 - **The Planning Game – Amir Kolsky**

**break**

19:30 - 20:45 – **Play the Game - Amir Kolsky**

## More in Agile Related

[All posts in Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related)

- Nov 21, 2005

    ### [Slides Available for my talks on C# 2.0, LINQ, Agile Methodologies and TDD Best Practices](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/21/slides-available-for-my-talks-on-c-20-linq-agile-methodologi.html)

- Nov 21, 2005

    ### [I'll be speaking at Oracle Week \[TDD Intro and Best Practices\]](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/21/ill-be-speaking-at-oracle-week-tdd-intro-and-best-practices.html)

- Nov 16, 2005

    ### [Agile Dilbert](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/16/agile-dilbert.html)

- Nov 9, 2005

    ### [The Agile Blog](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/9/the-agile-blog.html)


---

## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

- X: https://x.com/royosherove
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/