Agile
Agile techniques for software requirements: user stories, product backlog, design thinking, MVP minimum viable product, etc.
Just In Time Software Requirements
Elena Yatzeck shares in this blog post her thoughts about “value spike”. A “spike” is a short piece of work within an agile project in which one or two programmers may be assigned to do outside of the iteration structure. The goal is to investigates unknown technology problems well enough so you can estimate them. […]
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Does Formal Requirements Documentation Have a Place in Agile?
One of the first questions Business Analysts ask when confronted with an agile method is “How agile method cant incorporate our documentation.” And sometimes it is not a question, but an affirmation. This article provides good framework for integrating agile and formal documentation.
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The Concept of the Minimum Viable Product
Does the word ‘minimum’ immediately raise your hackles? This article emphasizes that learning to prioritize, getting to production early, and subsequently delivering in small increments are key disciplines in the practices of Agile and continuous delivery. The term Minimum Viable Product (MVP) has been around, in various forms, for a long time. I’ve also heard […]
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Agile Software Requirements by Dean Leffingwell
The title of one of the initial chapters of the book “Agile Software Requirements” by Dean Leffingwell is “The Big Picture of Agile Requirements”. This emphasizes that agile requirements are more than user stories on a small card. In this book, Dean Leffingwell presents the big picture of agile requirements, together with the small details that […]
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Functional Requirements Are Not Always User Stories
What happens when Scrum projects do not have clear user stories? Because Product Owner has the subject matter expertise and decision making capabilities, that does not mean that he can clearly communicate the requirements in a way that will make the developers/testers as productive as possible. This blog post explains that the best way to […]
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User Stories Lifecycle
In this blog post, Henrik Larsson explains the lifeycle of user stories from the Release planning meeting to the release tracking stage where the product owner checks if the release date and contents can be kept.
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