Refinement is about creating a shared understanding (between PO and DT) of the value and intent of the items on the Product Backlog. Shared understanding sounds good, but why is it so important?
Here is our monthly selection of knowledge on programming, software testing and project management. This month you will find some interesting information and opinions about software requirements, scrum planning, clean code, product owners, visual thinking, software architecture, cross-browser testing and programming in Java.
Here is our monthly selection of knowledge on programming, software testing and project management. This month you will find some interesting information and opinions about software development productivity, managing a product backlog, technical debt, iteration speed, stress, software architecture, test-driven development (TDD) and Agile organizations.
I know plenty of teams that do all the right research activities, but these activities don’t influence their product decisions. They set out to build the same solutions they intended to build before they did their research activities.
The naive view of agile software development is that everyone just dives in and starts writing code without spending any time at the beginning working out what to do.
User stories are not, and should not be, complete requirements for software development. People call user stories a placeholder for a conversation, meaning the stories capture the essence of what is wanted, but they don’t contain the detail. When the time comes to do the work, there will be a …
