Tag Archives: customer

Customer Value – Unbundling

Posted on December 18, 2004 by Bill Wake

Working story by story lets you create value in independent pieces. You can bundle or unbundle these to meet your needs. Continue reading →

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Customer Value: Short-Term and Long-Term

Posted on October 15, 2004 by Bill Wake

Consider both short-term and long-term value when selecting stories to implement. Continue reading →

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Review – User Stories Applied

Posted on June 20, 2004 by Bill Wake

User Stories Applied, Mike Cohn. Addison-Wesley, 2004.This book is all about user stories, focused on the XP-style customer or the Scrum-style product owner (although programmers and others should know this material as well). Mike describes what stories are, how to … Continue reading →

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Fisheye Lens Project Management

Posted on February 3, 2004 by Bill Wake

XP and Scrum project plans can operate with less detail than traditional project plans; this is like a fisheye lens, which shows more detail about things close to the center. Continue reading →

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INVEST in Good Stories, and SMART Tasks

Posted on August 17, 2003 by Bill Wake

XP teams have to manage stories and tasks. The INVEST and SMART acronyms can remind teams of the good characteristics of each. Continue reading →

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Fit Spreadsheet – Output

Posted on April 20, 2003 by Bill Wake

Starting Fit To use fit, you create a web page that has tables in it; the tables specify tests. (There are other options but that is easiest.) In this case, I'm using Microsoft Word™ and saving the file in HTML … Continue reading →

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Fit Spreadsheet

Posted on April 20, 2003 by Bill Wake

Ward Cunningham has created an acceptance testing framework known as fit. (See http://fit.c2.com for more details.) In this brief experiment, we’ll use tests to help specify a simple spreadsheet for strings. Continue reading →

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Acceptance Tests for a Query System

Posted on May 25, 2001 by Bill Wake

Tests for a(n imaginary) library query system. Continue reading →

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Acceptance Test Mechanisms

Posted on May 15, 2001 by Bill Wake

An acceptance test is a test that the user defines, to tell whether the system as a whole works the way the user expects. Ideally, the acceptance tests are defined before the code that implements the feature. Acceptance tests are … Continue reading →

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Customer’s Hat

Posted on April 20, 2001 by Bill Wake

Think more like a customer, by thinking about users and how they value features. Continue reading →

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Customer's Shoes: Release Planning

Posted on March 31, 2001 by Bill Wake

Practice release planning from a customer’s perspective. Continue reading →

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Introduction to XP (.PPT)

Posted on February 2, 2000 by Bill Wake

PPT presentation

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