Exploring Extreme Programming
How do stories fit in with other stories, or small stories with bigger ones? How can we move from skinny stories to richer ones? This is part of Scalability of stories. One way to think about story relationships is to Continue reading Connecting Stories
How do you think about stories? We’ve talked about different levels of stories. Scalable stories let us gradually increase the intensity and utility of system behaviors. As before, I’ll use LinkedIn.com for examples. (This is a reverse-engineering exercise; I have Continue reading Scalable Story Examples
Stories Have Multiple Granularities User stories may seem like they are about specifications but they’re really a lightweight way to explore possibilities. Many teams get too focused on the “card” aspect, using tools to turn user stories into an atomized Continue reading Multi-Level Stories
The vocabulary of your user stories frames the domain of discourse: what are your stories about? It’s helpful to think of “the headline” and “the rest”. “The headline” is what you’d write on an index card or as a title Continue reading User Story Vocabulary: Problem, Solution, or Widget?
How do you handle delivery of new features or new systems? The easiest way is to just add the new features or replace the existing system, with no transition, but this is not the only approach. We’ll consider several strategies Continue reading Delivery Strategies
Rather than focusing on “splitting” a story, figure out a minimal form of a story, and intensify it – make it more powerful or desirable. We’ll explore one dimension, prediction: how can we make a story better by improving how the Continue reading Intensifying Stories Through Prediction
We implement feature by feature, seeking value; adding up the value forms an S curve with characteristic regions. Can we overcome the tendency of products to fade away?
T is for Testable in the INVEST model. A testable story is one for which, given any inputs, we can agree on the expected system behavior and/or outputs.
French translationS is for Small in the INVEST acronym. I now use another S that I think captures the idea even better: Scalable. Scalable means “able to be changed in size or scale,” and that’s handy in a story: We Continue reading Small – Scalable – Stories in the INVEST Model
As one of Industrial Logic’s consultants, I sometimes make videos, so I thought I’d gather links to those here. Refactoring to Patterns and Other Interesting Places Craft Conf, 2018 (I didn’t make this video, but it’s for a talk I Continue reading Industrial Logic Videos