I've been applying agile for a few months now on my project. However we are seeing a steady problem with our iteration burndowns. We aren't hitting zero each iteration. The tasks remaining are QA tasks. Things like writing tests, testing, etc. Now, there is some organizational resistance to the "cross-functional team" idea of agile....
We are just starting on a pretty big project with lots of sub projects. we don't currently use any kind of named process but I am hoping to get some kind of agile/scrumlike process in by the back door. The area I will be focusing on most is having a good backlog for the whole project and, at least in my head, the idea of an iteration wh...
We attempt to do agile development at my current job and we succeed for the most part. The main problem seems to be that the developers on the project are always waiting for requirements at the beginning of the sprint and rushing to get get things down by the end. The business analysts who are delivering the requirements are always worki...
If anyone is trying to do agile, i am trying to figure out a way to use JIRA / Greenhopper for this. We are a global dev team so the distributed nature is crucial here. We were initially using Scrumworks but the team complained that they had duplicate information in JIRA and scrumworks all the time and thought it was redundant. We got...
Hi I'm writing a small app for my friend's business, and thought I'd take the opportunity to brush up on some Agile Project Management training I did at the start of the year. I (and I think, my current organisation!) have always struggled with gathering requirements in the form of User Stories, which take the form: As a [User Type] I...
How do you estimate the time needed to implement a user story? If it's something you had done before you know how long it'll take. But what about if it's completely new to you? How much time do you reserve for "surprises"? ...
There are several ways to do burn down charts in Scrum. Some people suggest using the story points of unfinished stories left as your burn down charts in Scrum. Pro: Only finished stories lower the chart Contra: Chart doesn't move down in the beginning and then rapidly falls off Others suggest to use the number of tasks left Pro: Ch...
Are use cases just multiple user stories?? What are the benefits of using user stories over use cases.. and vice-versa... When to use one over other... Does all agile methodologies uses user stories?? ...
We are starting to use a Scrum process for development. We have a nice stack of user stories now . I'm wondering though, once a user story is complete, tested and deployed do you do anything else with it? We're using little index cards right now, I'd think it would be fine to just toss them in the trash can. If you keep them, what do yo...
Does anyone know of any software that can be used to create Agile User Stories instead of doing it manually with 3M Sticky Notes. I'm trying to be more Green and a good application that I can used to collect the user stories and then create a nice document to hand to the client. Thanks! ...
In an answer to the question Documents for a project?, Chris Ballance replied that "User Stories" and a "burndown chart" are the two most useful types of project documentation for a developer. My question is, do you know of any good example[s], which I can see (for example on the internet, or in a book), of these kinds of documentation?...
We work with the scrum method. Let's assume the product owner wants a new functionality that allows the user to search the content of the website. The total work is 8 points and these would be the user stories: the user can input search terms (0 points) the search results are displayed to the user (8 points) I want to gain more in...
Possible Duplicate: What would you like to see in a TDD demo? What is a good sample class to demonstrate TDD? I'd like to prepare a one-hour talk on test-driven development, using Python. But rather than describing what TDD is (and giving little examples), I'd like to choose some user stories that could be implemented usin...
Hi, How do you go about organizing user stories? What I did was this for a web application: Made a title for a web page like 'index', then listed all the stores the user can do on this page. I continued on for all the pages. Is this the most effective way? ...
"We need to show quotes related with the current document." This user story will cause many of our subsystems to get modified, and it is more or less 4-5 sprint length. Splitting it into sub stories is impossible cause the modifications has no business value. But, in the 5th sprint, there will a business value. What do you suggest? How...
A few individuals at my work have come together to form a group whose goal is to analyze the benefits of implementing some Agile software development / project management principles. As a developer, I see great benefit in User Stories. We're looking to put together an information radiator that can be used for monitoring stages of the c...
We started a project that will be managed with Scrum/XP. We wrote the whole product backlog upfront for evaluation purposes. We're making sure all stories are customer-centric and we're evaluating them by story business value: MoSCoW technique - Must, should, could, would/won't have this implemented story effort/complexity (= story poi...
As we are a small company, I work as both a project manager and developer. The specifications I create for clients contain a number of elements used to describe and define the project, including user stories alongside any other elements I feel need to be included to define the project (e.g. wireframes, userflows, sitemaps etc.) to the c...
So if a user story is a something nebulous like: As a sales rep, I would like to capture the contact information so that I can follow up later on. I'm not even sure if that's a valid user story but I'm sure it's close enough. Then there are details/tasks for implementing that user story. And I'm sure "The sales rep should be able to t...
We do distributed agile development and could really us a solution like story cards on a wall/board, only on a webpage where you could easily drag and drop them. Any suggestions? Thanks. ...