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What makes a good user story

Leading on from last week where I described that there are two main parts to user stories, the user (or persona or role) and the story (a short description...

0 replies - 2742 views - 09/01/09 by Jack Milunsky in Articles

User Stories - Tell it like it is

At every training session I do on Agile and Scrum, there two questions that are guaranteed to be asked without fail. What are user stories? and Why are...

0 replies - 1598 views - 08/26/09 by Jack Milunsky in Articles

Planning Poker - The Real Epiphany

Last week I established three good reasons to go with Story Points and why they're so popular. This week I want to talk about one more important aspect of...

0 replies - 2662 views - 08/19/09 by Jack Milunsky in Articles

The Significance of Story points

Expecting your teams to estimate in Story Points can be quite a leap of faith. When I first introduced the concept of Story Points at my previous company,...

0 replies - 2975 views - 08/10/09 by Jack Milunsky in Articles

Book Review - Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

3 replies - 2581 views - 08/03/09 by Jonathan Giles in Book Reviews

CASE Spec 8.7 Tool for Agile and Non-agile Projects Released with Discount Offers

Goda Software announces the release of CASE Spec 8.7 with discount offers. CASE Spec 8.7 features many enhancements, including inline data editing in grids....

0 replies - 2343 views - 07/05/09 by Raj Datla in Announcements

Accounting for Bugs in an Agile World - How we do it

Today I'd like to share with you a really important aspect of Agile software development - how to account for bugs in your daily plans. I am frequently...

0 replies - 2435 views - 07/05/09 by Jack Milunsky in Articles

The Scrum of Scrums

It is sometimes said that agile software development methods, such as Scrum, are ideal for small projects being delivered by small teams.Personally I would...

0 replies - 6717 views - 06/11/09 by Kelly Waters in News

Defining Kanban

There has been a long thread in the kanbandev group at Yahoo about how to define what a kanban system is, and is not. Defining kanban is important because...

7 replies - 27430 views - 06/09/09 by Henrik Mårtensson in News

Three Levels of Control (Example)

In my last post I told you about the three levels of control for managers. I didn't have much time to go into details then, and it was no surprise to see...

0 replies - 1351 views - 06/08/09 by Jurgen Appelo in News

To Estimate or Not - That Is the Question

Lean software development shares many of the key principles of agile software development.Although one of the key aspects of lean development is all about...

0 replies - 1452 views - 06/03/09 by Kelly Waters in News

Recommended Books on Agile

Quite frequently I am out talking to traditional project managers or new agile teams that want to learn a little bit more about all this agile stuff....

3 replies - 4553 views - 05/29/09 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

Self-Organization (Part 2)

In part 1 of this multi-post article I explained that self-organization has built the universe and everything in it, from quarks to strawberries to humans, and...

1 replies - 1078 views - 05/21/09 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Self-Organization (Part 1)

Self-Organization = Anarchy (Part 1) In the beginning there was nothing. And then something formed quarks. And the quarks organized themselves...

0 replies - 981 views - 05/20/09 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Convince your boss to use TDD

A reader asks: My boss knows about TDD but won’t allow us to use it because he thinks that it is just a passing hype that everyone talks about but...

0 replies - 3922 views - 05/19/09 by Misko Hevery in News