ScrumMaster Tales: The Team collaborate on Acceptance Criteria
Image Credit: robinsonma http://www.sxc.hu/photo/917101 The team has just completed Sprint Planning, committing to four stories: As a first time book buyer I would like to read a review so I can see if...
View ArticleScrumMaster Tales: Technical User Stories or The Team Try to Pull a Fast One...
While working on the FedEx 2-day shipment story Martin discovers some very crufty code in the Foobar class. He doesn’t need to work in the class to complete the story, nor can he see it causing any...
View ArticleLearning Story Mapping Through Exercises
Attendees in Kitchener Waterloo – collaborating on building their Story Maps. Story Mapping is a simple tool to help you visualize your Product Backlog. The traditional Product Backlog in Scrum is a...
View ArticleDon’t Gamble on User Stories Alone, Specify by Example
Traditional requirements approaches don’t work, but user stories are not enough. So, what does work? Testable examples (i.e. ATDD and BDD) aka Specification By Example. Testable examples, sometimes...
View ArticleWritings from around the Net
In the past year (gulp I realize I’ve posted some writing of interest to regular readers of this site. The ScrumAlliance has started publishing the Agile Atlas – our definition of Scrum. Those who keep...
View ArticleStory Splitting – a Play – “Spike Sherman”
User Stories are a common tool used by Agile Teams to capture the spirit of a requirement without too much detail. Sometimes User Stories are too large for the team to complete safely in one Sprint. In...
View ArticleLifecycle of a User Story
User Stories are often used as a lightweight form of Agile requirement. Their goal is to replace heavy weight-specification documents with “a Card, a Conversation and a Confirmation”. When people...
View ArticleVision to User Stories – What is the Best Flow?
In a recent Product Owner Course I was asked to provide a picture of the flow from Vision to User Stories, with all the steps in between. I think the attendee was hoping for something like: There are a...
View ArticleDefinition of Done vs. User Stories vs. Acceptance Criteria
Definition of “Done” The ScrumGuide says that: “When a Product Backlog item or an Increment is described as ‘Done’, everyone must understand what ‘Done’ means.” I can promise you, that sentence and the...
View ArticleScrum By Example – How to Deal with Bad User Stories as a ScrumMaster
It is common in the early stages of Scrum implementation for there to be misunderstandings about what User Stories are for and what makes them useful. A ScrumMaster’s task is to be able to help the...
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