Engineer rigs nerf gun to shoot himself when his stories are rejected in Pivotal

We hung a rotating nerf missile launcher upside down from the ceiling that shoots folks who push broken tests to our staged for deploy branch (we use TeamCity). It's a work in progress and not a perfect system (we pair a lot so there's no guarantee someone is at their desk), but it's fun and gets people's attention.

Basically this, but automagical: http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/ilaunch-thunder-iphone-controll....

Dodging bullets is one way to become more "agile".

Slightly-OT nerf hack: The best nerf sniper weapon is 18 inches of 1/2" PVC tube and your lungs. ~30 yard range, and super-accurate.

That's fine if you're doing it to yourself. If management were to try to impose this, I would look for a job that has more regard for the dignity of employees.

That's neat but it seems counter productive to me. I consider rejected Tracker stories to be a good thing. Better for a story to be rejected and provide feedback than to sit ignored or remain unfinished longer than necessary because the developer wants to avoid any possibility of rejection.

Now firing nerf weapons when CI builds fail makes much more sense.

At my company we have a purple lacrosse helmet that is placed on one's desk - like a trophy of humorous shame - whenever someone breaks something. It's all in good fun and helps to lighten the mood when things happen. And they always do.

Those phidget boards are pretty great. I bought some flashing lights from woot that we had kick on via the USB phidget interface anytime our pingdom checks failed. Now everyone hates the yellow lights :)