AOALA
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Although not yet to the big project that I have coming up, I’ve had the opportunity to try out formal user stories for the first time for a project. Before this, I was using a method that mimicked Joel Spolsky’s painless functional specs. Most of this process I will maintain, except I’ve moved to the “As a (role) I want (something) so that (benefit).” user story format proposed by Mike Cohn in User Stories Applied. I find that using this format really does help me 1) write from the user perspective,...
So, I sat down with my supervisor the other day to discuss my schedule and talk about the upcoming project that I was hoping to use Agile practices on. I gave him the two minute rundown of the key components of what I was looking to do, touching on the sell points of what I would be doing. Keeping the stakeholder involved improves acceptance chances Results based on the stakeholder’s priorities Demo-able software of the results as they are finished My supervisor understands that projects don’t just...