story splitting
User Story Mapping: making sense out of your user story backlog
Tue, 2008-02-26 06:04 — Jeff Patton
Is your agile project buried under a mountain of user stories? As you add stories, does your vision of the product you’re building grow hazier? As story count increases, do business stakeholders become more frustrated with prioritization? Do you find it difficult to communicate the big picture of what your system does?
Embrace Uncertainty, why in Agile development knowing what you want may be an impediment to getting it
Sat, 2008-02-02 18:36 — Jeff Patton
When Kent Beck first published Extreme Programming Explained in 2000 he invited us to embrace change. Certainly XP’s and Agile Software Development’s value system and practices support that. However, succeeding in Agile processes now requires more. We’ve come to value the successful delivery of the outcome of our work. It’s the value our “user stories” bring to business and end users that use the software that matter most. If user stories are a means to an end, then it’s the end that matters most.
