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Hi All,
 
My company is developing the strategy for going Agile. Here is how we plan to maintain the Backlog:
  • product management should specify a "theme",
  • product owner should write User Stories for it,
  • developers should estimate them and eventually split them into tasks.
This strategy is believed to give us a framework to stay on track and to deliver what product management wants.
 
Did anybody apply a similar top-down approach in practice?
 
I like this strategy, but I have a nagging suspicion that this is not an Agile methodology. Shouldn't the User Stories be created in a bottom-up fashion in Agile?
 
I would appreciate your comments. Thanks,
 
Jana


Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:18 pm

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Hi All, My company is developing the strategy for going Agile. Here is how we plan to maintain the Backlog: - product management should specify a "theme", -...
Jana Jecmen
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Mar 17, 2009
9:53 pm

Great question, Jana. I'm sure there will be a variety of opinions, but here's my take. This is not a bad way to start, and you can always do some of it, but...
William Pietri
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Mar 17, 2009
10:04 pm

... I'd think not. User stories have business value. Business people need to decide that. Perhaps I don't understand what you mean by bottom-up, however. Ron...
Ron Jeffries
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Mar 17, 2009
10:26 pm

... What I'm guessing she means is a way where the whole team collaborates on deciding what to build, rather than it all flowing from on high. I definitely...
William Pietri
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Mar 18, 2009
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... I take it that you mean "Top-down" in the sense that management is saying what needs to be done and this is being passed down to the team. This is a little...
Adam Sroka
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Mar 18, 2009
1:47 am

Hi Jana, I suggest asking the product manager to be the (chief) product owner. The individual currently assigned to the product owner role may work with the...
Roman Pichler
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Mar 18, 2009
2:45 pm

Jana, I concur with all of the others who have responded so far. It should work but it may not work. The key elements that are not well identified here are the...
Marjorie H Pries
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Mar 18, 2009
3:46 pm

First: Thanks to all the smart people getting back to Jana with thought provoking answers. I'll chip in two-cents - and I'd like you to value my advice at ...
Jeff Patton
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Mar 19, 2009
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George Dinwiddie
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Mar 19, 2009
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Robert Fabricant was the speaker: http://library.ixda.org/node/3 ...Dan...
Dan Harrelson
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Mar 23, 2009
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Hi All, Thanks a lot for all the answers. They gave me a good insight. In particular I want to thank Jeff Patton for the extensive replay - I feel empowered to...
Jana Jecmen
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