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October 30, 2019 - February 9, 2021
Write Short Stories
When you’re writing your stories, though, you want to make sure that they’re small enough that you can actually estimate them.
As a customer, I want the world’s biggest online bookseller so that I can buy any book I want at any time I want.
You need to break it down.
“As a customer, I want to be able to browse books by genre, so that I can find the type of books I like.”
“As a customer, I want to put a book into a shopping cart, so that I can buy it.”
“As a product manager, I want to be able to track a customer’s purchases, so that I can market specific books ...
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A discussion can actually ensue about how to implement them. They’re specific enough to be actionable but don’t prescribe how they’re going to be done.
but what will be accomplished is decided by business value.
“Epic”—a
a story too big to do by itself but that includes a number of smaller stories that add up to a single idea.
“broad spectrum of events,”
He’s always been a Scrum coach, he says, even when he was leading Special Forces missions.
Courses of Action.
“We had two Epics.
first
s...
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what
how
“As a Special Forces medic, I must teach basic physiology to my students, so they can understand the human body.”
And then he broke everything into iterations or Sprints.
Be Ready and Be Done
Is the story ready? And how will you know when it’s done?
As a Special Forces medic, I must teach basic physiology to my students, so they can understand the human body.
It was created by Bill Wake, who’s a deep thinker on software design. Bill says that for any story to be ready it needs to meet the INVEST criteria:
