One of the things we’ve been working on in terms of agility over the past few sprints is improving our stories for the sprint.
Previously we’d found ourselves wasting time because a story wasn’t thought through well enough, either from the development/implementation perspective (we went the wrong way technology-wise) or in terms of the features (incomplete or inconsistent concepts, for example). We were also ending up at the end of a sprint with nothing deliverable because our chunks were often too big.
After a good session with Lisa Crispin last October, we put some ideas into motion about making our stories better described, with a focus on deliverable, testable requirements.
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