Ever been on a project where you needed someone (a specialist) outside of your agile development team to do work for you? For example, I once worked with a team that was developing a medical software application and frequently needed legal specialists to draft or review…
If you choose to write user stories to represent your product backlog items, how much detail should be associated with each story’s conditions of satisfaction?
Before I answer that question, let’s make sure we agree on our terms. As I describe in my…
Are software estimations useful? I say yes, but perhaps not for the reason you might expect. To me the principal value of estimating is the discussion among the team members that takes place when they try to agree on a size. Honestly, I am less interested in the size…
As I engage different teams I have noted a lack of clarity surrounding product backlog concepts. Although there is no universally accepted vocabulary for labeling product backlog-related things, there should at least be agreement on the basic concepts. The goal of this…