diff --git a/examples/quickstart-xgboost/README.md b/examples/quickstart-xgboost/README.md
index dad8814ece08..f7b98c11d3b5 100644
--- a/examples/quickstart-xgboost/README.md
+++ b/examples/quickstart-xgboost/README.md
@@ -52,24 +52,36 @@ pip install -r requirements.txt
 
 ## Run Federated Learning with XGBoost and Flower
 
-Afterwards you are ready to start the Flower server as well as the clients. You can simply start the server in a terminal as follows:
+Afterwards you are ready to start the Flower server as well as the clients. 
+You can simply start the server in a terminal as follows:
 
 ```shell
 python3 server.py
 ```
 
-Now you are ready to start the Flower clients which will participate in the learning. To do so simply open two more terminal windows and run the following commands.
+Now you are ready to start the Flower clients which will participate in the learning. 
+To do so simply open two more terminal windows and run the following commands.
 
 Start client 1 in the first terminal:
 
 ```shell
-python3 client.py
+python3 client.py partition_id=0
 ```
 
 Start client 2 in the second terminal:
 
 ```shell
-python3 client.py
+python3 client.py partition_id=1
 ```
 
-You will see that XGBoost is starting a federated training. Look at the [code](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-xgboost) and [tutorial](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-xgboost.html) for a detailed explanation.
+You will see that XGBoost is starting a federated training.
+
+Alternatively, you can use `run.sh` to run the same experiment in a single terminal as follows:
+
+```shell
+bash run.sh
+```
+
+Besides, we provide options to customise the experimental settings, including data partitioning and centralised/distributed evaluation (see `utils.py`).
+Look at the [code](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-xgboost) 
+and [tutorial](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-xgboost.html) for a detailed explanation.
diff --git a/examples/quickstart-xgboost/run.sh b/examples/quickstart-xgboost/run.sh
index f7d37f47051a..92e9973fdb5f 100755
--- a/examples/quickstart-xgboost/run.sh
+++ b/examples/quickstart-xgboost/run.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ cd "$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"/
 
 echo "Starting server"
 python server.py &
-sleep 3  # Sleep for 3s to give the server enough time to start
+sleep 15  # Sleep for 15s to give the server enough time to start
 
 for i in `seq 0 1`; do
     echo "Starting client $i"