Imagine your team builds houses akin to how they write code.
Some questions to ask;
- How long would it stand the test of time?
- What issues would appear immediately?
- What would work well?
- Would it align with what your users wanted?
- Would it ship completed?
- Would it be finished early or late?
You can come up with more/less questions, the point of the exercise isn’t to take your team down a notch – the goal is to realize we all like living in strong houses that do what they are supposed to do (keep us safe, give us a place to live and work, etc, etc), increase in value with minimal fixes to be made (not renovations).
How does our code compare to a house?
It’s a fun exercise, great for laughs and setting the way forward for what your team needs to focus on moving forward in new products and deliveries.
