User stories are used with Agile software development methodologies as the basis for defining the functions a business system must provide, and to facilitate requirements management. It captures the 'who', 'what' and 'why' of a requirement in a simple, concise way, often limited in detail by what ...
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Story Points to Ideal Days
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I work within a IT Team for my business that delivers (Develops & Unit Tests, QA, UAT and Releases) either system improvements or new systems to different areas of our business.
The team ...
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First sprint: Epics chosen instead of stories - should I re-estimate and when?
I am trying out Scrum on a small, one-person project. During my first sprint, I realized that all of the stories I've chosen are really epics and should be broken down into much smaller pieces. The ...
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How does a team (new to product and domain) estimates user stories of a ten year old product
I am a scrum master for one of the products in a product development company. Our team, including me, operates from India. However my product owner is in USA. We are working on a feature development ...
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What is smaller than a user story but bigger than a task?
We have a "heavy" story that cannot be decomposed into smaller stories. It will span several sprints.
We can decompose the story into tasks all right, but tasks seem to be abstractions that are only ...
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In Scrum, how to estimate research stories?
In our Scrum team, when there is uncertainty about a story or the team is not sure about how to implement it, we take up a research story first. Based on the findings of this research story, we are ...
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Can we have zero point stories?
Our Agile/Scrum team follows the Fibonacci sequence for story point estimation. However, it is not clear whether we should have any zero point stories at all. Even though a story may have minimal ...
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In our Agile/Scrum team, should we move or split incomplete stories?
Our Agile/Scrum teams are getting better at taking on manageable workload and completing them fully. However, sometimes for a variety of good reasons, some of the stories are not fully done at the end ...
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Why use iterations in Scrum?
I am a Scrum Master in a 7 person team. We currently use one-week iterations for our sprints.
I find that sprint planning overhead is huge (2 hours each week for entire team), and not nearly as ...
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Changing backlog story point estimates mid way through a release
Background: We are mid-way through a development which was estimated for a customer on a fixed price contract. To come up with the estimate we built a backlog by trying to list all user stories and ...
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Sizing an entire backlog using story points
I'm a PM on a large multi-year project with a sizable backlog of work implementing Scrum in 4 week release cycles. I hold weekly backlog grooming sessions with the project team and key business ...
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Develop from Use Cases or Business Requirements
I'm involved in a project where the business team created a large business requirements document that were using to create product backlog items and acceptance criteria.
However, they have also ...
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Handling new suggestions to resolved user stories in closed sprint
In a project managed using scrum framework, I've a situation where all tasks associated to a user story (feature) had been done successfully. No more code changes are allowed since testing is in ...
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Improve performance of feature X - should that be a new user story or something else?
We have implemented and closed user story X but found out later that the implementation is too slow and we need to improve performance. I think it was a mistake not to have acceptance criteria for ...
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Learning curve to writing user stories in the real world
How many user stories does it roughly take before a product owner has a basic fluency in writing user stories? Meaning that the idea of writing user stories has moved beyond theory, rough execution, ...
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how to cover details (side effect not desired workflow) with scrum user stories
As a scrum/agile system student, i am finding very hard the situation where you have to write up a user story in the clasical form and at the same time, describe the behaviour of parallel workflow. As ...
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Is there a difference between use case and user stories?
Is there any difference between use case and user stories?
Or are these totally different terms in the context of agile planning?
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Agile Scrum Storyboards
At the moment I'm Scrum Master for my place of work. We have one Scrum Team in our organisation which is split across two sites:
Site 1: Scrum Master, Developer, QA
Site 2: Developer, Operational, ...
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How do you refactor a story?
We've been using Pivotal Tracker on a software library project for well over a year. I'm the (admittedly not great) PM. The team is very good about writing notes on the story cards as things ...
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What are the best practices/methods/tools/techniques for conflict identification in requirements?
For the sake of this discussion requirements = user-stories (since I'm not differentiating any process per se and would like to get rid of any ambiguities).
It's quite common to have a set of about ...
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What is a reasonable strategy for estimating story points for new stories?
The project I'm running is very exploratative in that I don't know very much detail about features in advance. My boss will tell me that he wants feature A and that after feature A is finished, he'll ...
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Creating “User Stories” without a user
[University Project]
I want to adopt as many practices from agile project management as I can for a university project. I've decided that the actual development approach will be based upon an FDD ...
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using the prototype for live when building CMS/CRUD systems - wrong?
I'm currently reading Steve McConnells "Survival Guide" and am thinking of how I can improve our processes on requirements development. The book seems to have very strong ideas about using prototypes ...
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When should you do sprint planning?
We tend to do our retrospective on the final day of the sprint and have found that by the end of an hour and a half, launching into a planning session is not ideal at all.
When do you hold your ...
