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34848
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, ...
Tom Mellor
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Dec 1, 2008
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34849
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...
Mark Levison
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Dec 1, 2008
4:10 pm
34850
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....
aacockburn
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Dec 1, 2008
4:25 pm
34851
Lady & Gentlemen, Yes, I have learned a lot from this discussion as well, including the value of well equipped tool box ;-) Kind regards, Peter...
peterstev
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Dec 1, 2008
4:31 pm
34852
... 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...
David H.
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Dec 1, 2008
4:33 pm
34853
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...
Mark Levison
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Dec 1, 2008
4:36 pm
34854
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...
Richard Lawrence
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Dec 1, 2008
5:25 pm
34855
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....
Mark Summers
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Dec 1, 2008
5:35 pm
34856
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...
aacockburn
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Dec 1, 2008
10:41 pm
34857
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...
Michael Yip
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Dec 2, 2008
1:08 am
34858
... And it probably shouldn't. Cheers, Ilja...
Ilja Preuß
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Dec 2, 2008
1:09 am
34859
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...
Michael Yip
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Dec 2, 2008
1:20 am
34860
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...
Roy Morien
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Dec 2, 2008
2:27 am
34861
... 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...
George Dinwiddie
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Dec 2, 2008
2:35 am
34862
... 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....
George Dinwiddie
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Dec 2, 2008
2:51 am
34863
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...
aguannolaunch
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Dec 2, 2008
3:04 am
34864
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...
Craig A
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Dec 2, 2008
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34865
... "Successful" is often relative. Do you have a baseline to compare against? How are you measuring your current process? Dave...
Dave Smith
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Dec 2, 2008
3:54 am
34866
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...
Raghuram
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Dec 2, 2008
5:03 am
34867
I just finished reading this article http://www.infoq.com/resource/articles/scaling-lean-agile-feature-teams/ ...
Sreedharan, Ashwanth ...
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Dec 2, 2008
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34868
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...
Christophe Louvion
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Dec 2, 2008
6:00 am
34869
... 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...
David H.
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Dec 2, 2008
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34870
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,...
joscha_jenni
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Dec 2, 2008
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34871
Good point. And possibly even more important: how do your stakeholders define "success"?...
Ilja Preuß
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Dec 2, 2008
12:43 pm
34872
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...
davidpeterjoyce
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Dec 2, 2008
12:50 pm
34873
lol... Good point - my mistake. Sorry. So *other* than pair programming, does anyone have any suggestions on what tools they've used?...
Craig A
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Dec 2, 2008
1:47 pm
34874
Here is a link to recent conversation about technical stories. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/33712 Maybe this will help....
Rudiger Wolf
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Dec 2, 2008
3:24 pm
34875
Rudiger - thanks for the pointer, I had seen that discussion. However I think this is a slightly different question. The previous conversation was focused...
Mark Levison
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Dec 2, 2008
3:29 pm
34876
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...
Ove Lindström
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Dec 2, 2008
3:45 pm
34877
... 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...
David H.
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Dec 2, 2008
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