Browsing Posts tagged User Stories

We learned that keeping the backlog sized is priceless and that reassigning points is useless.

This is a question I asked recently of a newly-formed Scrum team in a User Story Writing workshop. It occurred to me to not just blurt it out and to let them offer suggestions instead. They were very willing to contribute and I’d like to share the answers they came up with:

Is the Product Backlog a list of prioritized “stuff to do”? Does it include defects, tasks and feature requests? What else?

I recently received an email from a senior-level manager, who raises a valid question about all the meetings associated with Scrum.

Using the format in the book “Agile Retrospectives” to look at how User Stories flow through the value stream.

Naked Planning, the open Kimono way to product development process. This set up also supports Promiscuous Programming.