Posted by: on October 23rd, 2009
Recently I was working in an agile environment where everyday one of the employees would use the local newspaper that contained a general knowledge quiz. Everyone in the group would get together for 5 minutes while he read out questions and everyone would attempt to answer. It was such a small thing but it became
Posted by: on October 23rd, 2009
I once observed a practice where story cards were only estimated based on the development effort. This is problematic as it has one specific focus and not looking at the total work that needs to be completed for a story to be moved into done. Product development is not just about writing code.
Posted by: on October 22nd, 2009
I have written this article in the hope that it will remove a lot of confusion in our industry on what a user story is. If you are transitioning from heavyweight to agile methods you may find this useful. I have not included estimation and how we manage stories on the backlog etc and will