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Scrum problems – Problems in writing proper user stories – getting too generic, or getting into too much detail – Part 1




User Stories are a very important part of Scrum, since User Stories are essentially the requirements part of the Scrum process. User Stories are used by the Product Owner to explain the requirements to the Scrum team, and need to be at a level where they can be used to test against, the QE team [...]



Scrum basics: How to write user stories, one of the most critical components of Scrum




When people talk about requirements during the course of gathering requirements for a project, they would normally talk about mapping the business requirements in a way that these can be broken down into design concepts and then into further details in terms of code and test cases (the whole traceability matrix). However, the whole task [...]



Planning to ensure that the Sprint Planning meetings work well as a part of the Scrum process – Part 1




The Sprint Planning Meeting is a critical component of the Scrum process, whereby the team takes a prioritized list of features, and then breaks down these features into tasks, estimates these tasks, assigns them, and forms a Sprint backlog such that the tasks are tracked through the duration of the Sprint. For this to happen, [...]



How to ensure that Scrum Backlog Management is ensured, to ensure that the team is on the path of success (contd..) – Part 2




In the previous post (Project Backlog Management), I talked about some of the problems that Scrum teams face in terms of Backlog Management, when they find that their Backlog does not seem to be coming down over a period of time, or when their demos at Sprint end do not seem to provide satisfaction that [...]