You're outsourced!

Each week the teams pick a PM who can attempt to talk their way back in by adding a new killer feature that would extend their project timeline.

Don: You got me to laugh out loud.

I'll extend this with the suggestion that the tasks are cumulative, for example:

week 1: An API (or webservice, or whatever) is designed and published by each team.

week 2: The core API is implemented.

week 3: A sample app is built around the work of weeks 1-2 *without being allowed to go back and change anything*

The purpose I'll state for this is that the competition mimics, in a fun way, the dynamics of shipping software in the real world.

Tom Droege used to run a developer competition in Raleigh NC years ago in combination with DataBased Advisor magazine. The specifications were for actual software requried, typically by a non-profit or otherwise deserving customer.

There were two flavours. In early years, the spec was handed out at 8am - and by the end of the day, you had to be done (just 2 developers). In later years, the spec was handed out a couple of weeks in advance and you could write code, but on the day of the event, the spec was revised - and a completed judging script of all the hoops your app had to run through was released.

An interesting angle is that it was open to any software development platform.

So this is not terribly unlike the Imagine Cup. I competed in the Droege competition for a couple of years and I remember the last time it was for Habitat for Humanity to log sweat equity in projects. A nice project indeed.

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