Technical Spikes in Agile and Scrum
Technical spikes are a great way for teams to scope out some work that they don’t fully understand before they begin work on it. Spikes are used by teams to suss out or do [...]
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Category: Agile Practices
An Alternative Way to Assign User Story Poi [...]
One of the hardest concepts for some teams to understand, especially when they first start using user stories, is that of story points. “What is a point?” they [...]
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The 3 C's Refresher - Cards, Conversations, and [...]
When I train agile teams – especially Scrum teams – I always bring up my experience as a developer starting with eXtreme Programming (at least my company’s [...]
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Agile Task Estimation - Necessity or Was [...]
Agile task breakdown and estimating can be a difficult conversation to have with teams. I had a conversation with one of our teams several days ago and we were discussing decomp [...]
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Story Design – When, Where, and How Mu [...]
I received the following question from a colleague a few days ago: Name: Randy Raypole Subject: User story design work Message: With regards to team understanding of stories. I& [...]
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User Stories and Mousetraps: A Lifecycle of [...]
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company In part-1 of this series we began the exploration of user stories from “concept to executio [...]
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User Stories and Mousetraps: A Lifecycle of [...]
I teach quite a few teams about User Stories. Most struggle with the concept, at least initially. One of the key challenges for many is the notion that stories are iterative. Th [...]
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Focusing on the STORY in the User Story
The user story has nearly become the ubiquitous requirements artifact in agile contexts. So much has been written about the user stories, their format, how to write them, the [...]
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The Collective Memory of the Team
If you’ve any experience in agile approaches for software development, one of the common arguments surrounds documentation. Mostly it centers on software requirements, but it [...]
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User Stories vs. Market Stories
I read a recent article/blog post by Steve Johnson where he made the case for something he calls “market stories”. Here’s a snippet from the post: Lately I’ve been [...]
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