by IAG Webmaster | Dec 19, 2011 | Agile
Planning poker is an agile technique for estimating the work effort of the product backlog Items. The method originally comes from the XP process but is now used in many agile and non-agile methodologies. Basically it works like this: 1. Each team member (some...
by IAG Webmaster | Nov 14, 2011 | Agile, Most Popular
The Challenge User stories that should be simple are frequently quite complex, written ambiguously, or have underlying needs that are hidden below the surface. Some should be broken up in to multiple stories. You may not know how best to write a user story and...
by IAG Webmaster | Nov 1, 2011 | Agile, Business Analysis, Most Popular, RDM
Four simple tests to assess if requirements are not doneThese are Business Requirements level tests that work and will improve your requirements quality irrespective of delivery methodology:If the requirements lack context: Requirements always exist to...
by IAG Webmaster | Sep 19, 2011 | Agile
You have to admit – agile folks are conflicted. On one hand there’s the folks screaming requirements are dead***. On the other hand, people teaching agile practices have to explain the asterisks; mention these things called user stories and the practices...
by IAG Webmaster | Aug 13, 2010 | Agile, Uncategorized
A reminder list of administrative duties for the Scrum Master Every Day At the beginning of sprint and after the Sprint planning meeting send an email to everyone announcing that a new sprint is started. Include the sprint goal and a link to the Sprint info page, and...