Breaking Down User Stories – When versus How
As we continuously strive to adopt agile practices, one of the biggest obstacles we have had recently is dealing with large items on the backlog. What size of an item is too big? Once we have...
View ArticleGetting Testing Involved | LeadingAgile
When the acceptance tests are elaborated jointly the testers, analysts and developers don’t have different understandings. When we elaborate them before we build developers can build the smallest and...
View ArticleA Better Project Model than the “Waterfall”– Jeff Gothelf – Harvard Business...
Despite the confidence inspired by all of this upfront planning and design, the only guaranteed thing to come out at the end of this waterfall process is the wrong solution. Instead of presenting their...
View ArticleThe Product Owner’s Dilemma | Scrumology
Great advice for product owners! Customers are interested in solving their problems, they are not interested in your product or features. Going back to the source and challenging the existence of the...
View ArticleDo you write your stories right? « Nanda’s Blog
Good tips and examples on writing user stories. By now, I hope most of the people who practice agile knows what a user story is. I observed in lot of teams that either they don’t write user stories or...
View ArticleWhat Do Our Customers Really Want?
Lisa Crispin gives a good example of something her team did to help better understand the customer needs and reduce requirements churn. Great advice! What Do Our Customers Really Want?.
View ArticleHow You’ll Probably Learn to Split Features
This is a good post that talks about breaking down user stories. It talks about patterns that teams will typically follow to break down stories. It gives some good examples and explanations as to...
View ArticleUser Stories are not Enough
Roman Pichler had a good blog entry recently titled User Stories are not Enough to Create a Great User Experience. This was a great read and contains some great ideas and advice. I’d actually go a...
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Working with the GO Product Roadmap
I’m really liking the GO Product Roadmap from Roman Pichler. I’ve seen roadmaps for a long time that have given the time frame and feature focus for that time frame, but I really like the addition of...
View ArticleDon’t Estimate Stories In Sprint Planning – LeadingAgileLeadingAgile
Two pieces of advice I commonly give to teams are: Don’t estimate stories in sprint planning. Don’t re-estimate stories in sprint planning. Andrew Fuqua had a great post over on Leading Agile that...
View ArticleEliminate Features | Roman Pichler
The trick is not to blindly copy features but rather to explore which ones you can eliminate. Source: Eliminate Features | Roman Pichler A good post from Roman Pichler with a good tool helping Product...
View ArticleBacklogs Are Not Waste – NOOP.NL
To some people, to-do lists and product backlogs are waste. I disagree. I see them as repositories of ideas and options. Source: Backlogs Are Not Waste – NOOP.NL Jurgen has some good points here. I’ve...
View ArticleAgile: Conversations vs Documentation | Fusion Alliance
User Stories use a card so we can’t write down too much, which forces us to have a conversation. That way, we are much more likely to have a common understanding of what is needed. Source: Agile:...
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