Non-Functional Requirements: Do User Stories Really Help?

Published May 31st, 2010 Under General | Leave a Comment

How does a team make sure they don’t lose sight of “non-functional requirements”? Are user stories of any use to make infrastructure more visible in the product backlog? This video presents how teams attempted to resolve these concerns. Discover patterns and anti-patterns of non-functional requirements in an agile world.

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Slides of the presentation

Requirements Traceability Introduction

Published April 26th, 2010 Under General | Leave a Comment

This video demonstrates an example of agile requirements traceability. We discuss an example user story and show how detailed requirements captured as test tables can be used to build executable specifications and aid the design process. Finally we wrap up by a brief example of how we would track the progress of multiple user stories across our scrum or kanban wall.

Jeff Patton on User Centered Design and Story Mapping

Published April 12th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Jeff Patton describes the different ways Agile teams deal with users and then digs in deep into story mapping – a technique that is more information rich than a simple backlog.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/patton-story-map

Introduction to Agile Estimation

Published March 15th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

We’re agile, so we don’t have to estimate and have no deadlines, right? Wrong! This session will consist of an overview of the concept of agile estimation and the notion of re-estimation. We’ll learn about user stories, story points, team velocity, how to apply them all to estimation and iterative re-estimation. The lab will consist of an estimation project and doing a round or two of “planning poker”.


Story Points

Published February 9th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

John Martin briefly explains how to use story points.

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