Summary: From the Editors of StickyMinds.com – Managing an agile project based on uncensored “Very High,” “High,” and “Low Priority” user stories or backlog items used to induce stress on…
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Kanban Development Oversimplified
How Kanban-style development gives us another way to deliver on Agile values Years ago — Feb 25th 2008 to be exact — I wrote this draft article. At the time Kanban…
The Product Owner and the Product-shaped Hole
What the product owner needs to worry about isn’t in the product backlog If you’ve read one of my blog essays before, you know this isn’t going to be a…
Agile Development is More Culture Than Process
Why thinking of agile as culture and not just process explains resistance and difficulty in teaching and learning the approach Culture, not process I’d been working with Josh and lots…
The New User Story Backlog is a Map
Why the flat user story backlog doesn’t work, and how to build a better backlog that will help you more effectively explain your system, prioritize, and plan your releases. This…
Twelve Emerging Best practices for Adding UX Work to Agile Development
How experienced UX practitioners have adapted to work happily in Agile environments Is user experience relevant where you work? 6/10/2008 Don’t know what I want, but I know how to…
Secrets to Automated Acceptance Tests
In the years that I’ve been involved with agile development, I’ve noticed an ongoing crusade for a holy grail that teams have been striving to reach: fully automated acceptance tests….
Is User Experience Relevant Where You Work?
This post is about how looking at the context your product is targeted for can explain your organization’s support, or lack of support, for user experience concerns. Software development and…
An Uncomfortable Truth About Agile Testing
Summary: From the Editors of StickyMinds.com – One characteristic of agile development is continuous involvement from testers throughout the process. Testers have a hard and busy job. Jeff has finally…
Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know How to Get It
Why knowing what you want in agile development may be an impediment to getting it. It all started with one of those weird trains of thought that come to you…