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Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories

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This book will help you write better stories, spot and fix common issues, split stories so that they are smaller but still valuable, and handle difficult stuff like crosscutting concerns, long-term effects and non-functional requirements. Above all, this book will help you achieve the promise of agile and iterative delivery: to make sure that the right stuff gets delivered through productive discussions between delivery team members and business stakeholders. Who is this book for? This can be a book for anyone working in an iterative delivery environment, doing planning with user stories. The ideas in this book are useful both to people rather new to user stories and those who have been working with them for years. People who work in software delivery, regardless of their role, will find a number of tips for engaging stakeholders better and structuring iterative plans more effectively. Business stakeholders working with software teams will discover how to provide better information to their delivery groups, how to set better priorities and how to outrun the competition by achieving more with less software. What’s inside? Unsurprisingly, the book contains exactly fifty ideas. They are grouped into five major parts: – Creating stories: This part deals with capturing information about stories before they get accepted into the delivery pipeline. You can find ideas about what kind of information to note down on story cards and how to quickly spot potential problems. – Planning with stories: This part contains ideas that can assist you manage the big-picture view, set milestones and organise long-term work. – Discussing stories: User stories are all about effective conversations, and this part contains ideas to enhance discussions between delivery teams and business stakeholders. You can find out how to discover hidden assumptions and how to facilitate effective conversations to verify shared understanding. – Splitting stories: The ideas in this part will help you handle large and difficult stories, offering several strategies for dividing them into smaller chunks that can assist you learn fast and deliver value quickly. – Managing iterative delivery: This part contains ideas that can assist you work with user stories in the short and mid term, manage capacity, prioritise and reduce scope to achieve the most with the least software. About the authors: Gojko Adzic is a strategic software delivery consultant who works with ambitious teams to enhance the quality of their software products and processes. Gojko’s book Specification by Example was awarded the #2 spot on the top 100 agile books for 2012 and won the Jolt Award for the best book of 2012. In 2011, he was voted by peers as the most influential agile testing professional, and his blog won the UK agile award for the best online publication in 2010. David Evans is a consultant, coach and trainer specialising in the field of Agile Quality. David helps organisations with strategic process improvement and coaches teams on effective agile practice. He is steadily in demand as a conference speaker and has had several articles published in international journals.

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