Agile Aggravations
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Agile Aggravations addresses many of the struggles we encounter as agile practitioners. From beginner to expert we run into issues creating user stories, backlog bugaboos, and run-of-the-mill retrospectives.
Tom Henricksen
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A good starting point for transition trouble shooting. Besides some links that are broken and irksome spelling mistakes, the informal, personal-narrative driven approach makes it accessible, while some challenges are unpacked and compared to agile and scrum practices and values. The references used are sound and helpful.
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Agile Aggravations - Tom Henricksen
Agile Aggravations
Tom Henricksen
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Agile Aggravations
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User Story Struggles
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Oprah Winfrey
User stories can be challenging to get right. I remember struggling with them the first time I worked on a Scrum team. I fall into the camp of too little detail. In my waterfall days before that, I would rarely have or read the business requirements. Things were always in a state of flux, so clear requirements were much like the Loch Ness monster. You heard stories of them but, never saw them. Let’ go over a few common struggles people run into.
Started to early
Stories occasionally get pulled into the sprint that was not quite ready. I am eager to get work done. As a scrum master, I would overlook some of the missing information. My team did a good job of learning this. They would review the items and see if something was missing. Try to develop a checklist that helps guide whether you have all the information. I have seen many teams do this and each checklist is a little different.
Start easy tasks
As we see in this post sometimes, developers start easy tasks first and never get to the more challenging tasks till later in the sprint. One thing I tried to do is have the easy tasks left until later in the sprint to fill time later. Start the hardest ones first and give yourself the most time on those. After a while, the team will get used to this and jump on the harder tasks right away.
Size Matters
I remember in college I took some economics