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34848 Tom Mellor
t_mellor Offline Send Email
Dec 1, 2008
2:05 pm
Alistair makes good points. We find use cases more valuable when we are producing a new system and we want to see the flow, the pre-conditions, ...
34849 Mark Levison
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Dec 1, 2008
4:10 pm
I'm sure this has been asked before - but after 20 minutes of digging I can't find the reference. One team team that I working with is building a backend...
34850 aacockburn Offline Send Email Dec 1, 2008
4:25 pm
Good points, Tom. This sort of discussion gets me to note that the workers working on my house have a belt sander and also a chisel. I've seen them use both....
34851 peterstev Offline Send Email Dec 1, 2008
4:31 pm
Lady & Gentlemen, Yes, I have learned a lot from this discussion as well, including the value of well equipped tool box ;-) Kind regards, Peter...
34852 David H.
sebi13556 Offline Send Email
Dec 1, 2008
4:33 pm
... If the value the chisel returned would gradually move towards zero I stipulate that discussion would come up more and more. ... You have obviously never...
34853 Mark Levison
marklevison Offline Send Email
Dec 1, 2008
4:36 pm
Recently one of the teams in my area has grown to the size of 15 and I see its having an impact on them. Before I sit down with the manager in question and...
34854 Richard Lawrence
rchrdlwrnc Offline Send Email
Dec 1, 2008
5:25 pm
When I'm in this situation, I prefer to write the stories the way you described. Functionally, those other systems are the users of the sub-system you're...
34855 Mark Summers
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Dec 1, 2008
5:35 pm
Mark I always find the biggest problem when the team gets large is they struggle to manage their interactions to achieve the Goal that they have committed too....
34856 aacockburn Offline Send Email Dec 1, 2008
10:41 pm
I learned long ago that there are people who will only learn a new tool or technique when faced with abject failure. Short of that, they say -- no matter what...
34857 Michael Yip
myip11 Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
1:08 am
Mark,   As a champion on Scrum you can approach the sponsor(s) of the team and address the 3 points you'd mentioned below and be constructive with your...
34858 Ilja Preuß
ipreussde Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
1:09 am
... And it probably shouldn't. Cheers, Ilja...
34859 Michael Yip
myip11 Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
1:20 am
Scrum has inherent metrics built in such as velocity, business value add functions, cost per business value add function and so on. For each iteration, it is...
34860 Roy Morien
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Dec 2, 2008
2:27 am
Some interesting points here, I think. What development approach were you using before your decision to adopt Scrum? Why are you changing? What metrics did you...
34861 George Dinwiddie
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Dec 2, 2008
2:35 am
... Is it 15 developers? Or 15 in the Whole Team? ... I've seen 20 people complete the standup in under 15 minutes. It takes some discipline, but it can be...
34862 George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
2:51 am
... There's a /really/ good book on Use Cases, though Alistair may be too modest to mention it. I think you would find reading it worth your time....
34863 aguannolaunch Offline Send Email Dec 2, 2008
3:04 am
Multi-Media Publications Inc, (www.mmpubs.com) in business for 20 years has a successful line of agile books and audiobooks. They are looking to develop a...
34864 Craig A
carsnau Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
3:40 am
Hi all, We've been using scrum for a while now, and are investigating a few different toolsets to solve some of the things we wanted addressed. One toolset...
34865 Dave Smith
dwsmtnview Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
3:54 am
... "Successful" is often relative. Do you have a baseline to compare against? How are you measuring your current process? Dave...
34866 Raghuram
kvmraghu Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
5:03 am
I agree that use cases are surely a good tool to know. People who have been using use cases earlier and changed over to user stories, in my opinion, can write...
34867 Sreedharan, Ashwanth ...
sree_ashwanth Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
5:40 am
I just finished reading this article http://www.infoq.com/resource/articles/scaling-lean-agile-feature-teams/ ...
34868 Christophe Louvion
chrislouvion Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
6:00 am
Mark, Writing user stories to include a final user is somewhat a stretch, mainly in very large projects with components talking to each other. One solution I...
34869 David H.
sebi13556 Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
9:13 am
... Thanks... as he goes and buys it... -d -- Sent from gmail so do not trust this communication. Do not send me sensitive information here, ask for my...
34870 joscha_jenni Offline Send Email Dec 2, 2008
9:59 am
Hi Craig Which other tools did you evaluate? What kind of things would you like to solve (except code reviews)? We use the Atlassian toolset (JIRA, Confluence,...
34871 Ilja Preuß
ipreussde Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
12:43 pm
Good point. And possibly even more important: how do your stakeholders define "success"?...
34872 davidpeterjoyce Offline Send Email Dec 2, 2008
12:50 pm
Hi, I have come across an interesting request for a release burndown/burnup (lets say predictability) for short projects, often that only take a couple of...
34873 Craig A
carsnau Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
1:47 pm
lol... Good point - my mistake. Sorry. So *other* than pair programming, does anyone have any suggestions on what tools they've used?...
34874 Rudiger Wolf
rudiger_wolf Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
3:24 pm
Here is a link to recent conversation about technical stories. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/33712 Maybe this will help....
34875 Mark Levison
marklevison Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
3:29 pm
Rudiger - thanks for the pointer, I had seen that discussion. However I think this is a slightly different question. The previous conversation was focused...
34876 Ove Lindström
limestream73 Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
3:45 pm
Well, we mostly use the same style, "As a <actor>, I want to,,," and just use the calling component as actor. An example (somewhat modified): As a...
34877 David H.
sebi13556 Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 2008
3:50 pm
... I usually forbid that type of story. There must be a behaviour (User functionality) somewhere which would allow the system to be implemented in such a...
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