Splitting & slicing user stories

Allan Kelly from Allan Kelly Associates

I’m please to announce the fourth part of my User Stories tutorial is now available.

User Stories by example, part 4: Splitting stories

In this tutorial I look at 10 days to split a story and illustrate each with examples and exercises.

I have one more part of this tutorial series to deliver, Workflow and Lifecycle, hopefully I’ll have that out in the next month.

Until then please try the tutorial and let me know what you think.

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Splitting & slicing user stories

Allan Kelly from Allan Kelly

I’m please to announce the fourth part of my User Stories tutorial is now available.

User Stories by example, part 4: Splitting stories

In this tutorial I look at 10 days to split a story and illustrate each with examples and exercises.

I have one more part of this tutorial series to deliver, Workflow and Lifecycle, hopefully I’ll have that out in the next month.

Until then please try the tutorial and let me know what you think.

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User Stories by Example part 3 (Refactoring)

Allan Kelly from Allan Kelly Associates

The latest instalment of my online User Stories tutorial is now available online, User Stories by Example: Refactoring.

It takes as its starting point some existing stories and reworks them to convey their message more clearly. In the process I discuss:

The use of time-boxed spikes.

The naming of team members in user stories, e.g. “As a developer I want …” – and why this isn’t a good idea.

Rewriting user stories and breaking them down into more smaller stories. (More on this in the next tutorial.)

Why more smaller stories is better than a fewer larger stories.

How acceptance criteria can be used to split stories into smaller pieces.

and a brief look at dealing with dependencies.

Videos are intersperced with exercises and quizzes. My guess is this tutorial will take two to three hours to complete – which can be all in one go or split over days or weeks to suit yourself. As with the earlier tutorials I work through real life user stories to illustrate and draw lessons.

This is the third tutorial, it joins User Stories by Example part 1 Starting with Stories and part 2 Acceptance Criteria. The next module will look at splitting stories in more detail.

The tutorial this carries the introductory price of $49. In time this price will probably rise and I’ll introduce a combined option to buy all the courses in one go.

Please e-mail me with your comments and suggestions.

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