Scrum User Stories: How to Create Them
A user story is a way to describe WHO wants WHAT and WHY. As opposed to representing all the facts round this required functionality, its primary purpose it to serve as a conversation starter so that...
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Agile Testing: How it works Unlike traditional waterfall models, where testing was treated as a separate phase by itself with silo’d teams and heavy weight processes built in, agile principles...
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Confronting Technical Debt
This is a guest post by Jon Kern, a software professional who is an expert on technical debt. So You Have Technical Debt? Does this sound like you? Scores of different folks have been working on the...
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User Stories: How to Create Acceptance Criteria
When I am working with my clients who have already started adopting Agile, one of the first item I look at is their backlog. Why? Because the quality of the backlog is a leading indicator to how...
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Agile Test Planning Primer
Test Planning is Important in an Agile Environment In talking to companies about potentially adopting Agile, there is a lot of confusion with the idea of cross functional teams. In particular, there...
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How IT Operations Can Work Better With Agile Teams
Ops Engineer Interacting with Agile Team When an organization is starting out with an Agile framework, such as Scrum, there is a lot of excitement and potential promise of what is to come, especially...
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Fixed Time, Fixed Scope, Fixed Budget = Broken Everything
Fixed Time, Fixed Scope, Fixed Budget = Broken Everything The post Fixed Time, Fixed Scope, Fixed Budget = Broken Everything appeared first on Payton Consulting: Higher Performing Teams, More...
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Who Manages The Team in Agile?
Forming agile teams are one the most important fundamental step in driving the team structure. The theory says Agile teams are small, stable, cross functional and self-organizing. These teams are...
View Article5 Common Problems with Scrum adoption
During the recent past, it has been a rat race that many organizations wanted to go the agile way of working, irrespective of their ability to change and work towards being agile. Often, organizations...
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Give Your Team Problems To Solve Rather Than Solutions To Implement
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View ArticleA Consultant Tells You What To Do, A Coach Shows You How To Do It
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View ArticleHow to Write Good User Stories
This post is part of a series on user stories: Everything you ever wanted to know about user stories but were afraid to ask. A question that comes up a lot is how to write good user stories. I can...
View ArticleEverything You Wanted to Know About User Stories (But Were Afraid to Ask)
This post links to other posts and covers: User Story Creation How to write a user story (with an example) How to write good user stories How to develop user stories How to write user stories for bugs...
View ArticleHow User Stories are Different from Requirements
I was packing up my things, ready to leave after a long week of training. Susan, the lead business analyst, had been dutifully attentive all week. She took excellent notes, asked probing questions,...
View ArticleHow to Write a User Story
For those of us who have been practicing agile professionals for some time, we sometimes forget that not everyone is familiar with the terms and jargon associated with agile and scrum. User stories,...
View ArticleHow to Develop User Stories
This post is part of a series on user stories: Everything you ever wanted to know about user stories but were afraid to ask. I sat in Doug’s office. He was panting. He was sweating. As the Director...
View ArticleAnnouncing: The Ultimate Guide to Building Your Backlog
I took 8 years of backlog building experience and stuffed it into a new and exciting book and course. This was created because I saw so many product owners struggle with building backlogs. When I...
View ArticleWhy you should give your teams problems to solve, not solutions to implement
Originally posted on LinkedIn In my role as a consultant, part of what I do is observe problems. Here are some of the problems I observe: – Technology leaders stressed out, banging their heads to find...
View ArticleHow to Decompose User Stories into Tasks
This post is part of a series on user stories: Everything you ever wanted to know about user stories but were afraid to ask. Recently I was looking at the sprint backlog of a team, which just started...
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