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Requirements Discovery
David Hawks @aus7nagile
What’s your BIGGEST BEEF with User Stories?
Get together with a partner and share stories about Stories. Write down your partner’s biggest beefs.
Sharing Time!
• How about some volunteers to share what you heard from your partner?
• Share the beef!
Let’s Remodel!
Instruc7ons • Work at your table/with a small group of 4 – 5. • Some of you volunteer to be the “contractor” (the development team or project manager)
• The remaining members are the customer • The customer picks some kind of home remodeling project
• Examples: – Remodel bathroom – Remodel kitchen – Add a story to the home
Write the Name of the project on a card and the contractors should interview the customers to understand the job.
Document the condi7ons of sa7sfac7on for your story
The Three C’s
Card
The Three C’s
Card
Conversa7o
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The Three C’s
Card Co
nversa7o
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Confirma7on
User Stories
As a <WHO>
I want <WHAT>
So that <WHY>
User Story Example
As a frequent flyer
I want to rebook a past trip
So that I save time booking trips I take.
Acceptan
ce Criteria
Independent Nego7able Valuable Es7mable Small (a.k.a. Sized Appropriately) Testable
+ +
Backlog Grooming (Regular cadence weekly or bi-‐weekly)
This is where the conversa7ons happen
But Dave, Everything doesn’t fit in a Sprint!
Detailed Appropriately 21
100 40
100
100
20 20 13 13
8 20 8 13
5 3 2 1
5 3 2 1
5 1
2
3 1 2 1 1 Prod
uct B
acklog
Epics Large
Lower Priority Future Release
Backlog Items (What is Requested) Estimated in Points
Small – Sprint Sized Detailed
Higher Priority 2-3 Sprints Worth
Sprin
t Backlog
Tasks (How to Get it Done) Estimated in Hours
Tasks Required to Complete Backlog Items
Sized Less than a Day Individual Workable Items
Release
Emergent
Richard Lawrence’s Story Splieng Strategies
• Workflow Steps • Business Rule Varia7ons • Major Effort • Simple / Complex • Varia7ons in Data • Data Entry Methods • Defer Performance • Opera7ons (e.g. CRUD) • Break out a Spike
Execution • Agile • Scrum • Predictability • Velocity • Test
Automation • Continuous
Integration
64% of the features we build in the
software industry are Rarely or Never Used!
Execution Discovery
Discovery • Lean
Startup • User Story
Mapping • Design
Thinking • Lean UX
Build
Feedback?
Idea
Product
Build
Feedback?
Idea
Product
How do you know you are building the right thing?
Build
Feedback?
Idea
Product
When do you find out if you
are right?
How long is the Release cycle? (From Concept to Customer)
How many features are released together?
How is success determined?
Your Product Today
How long is the Release cycle? (From Concept to Customer)
How many features are released together?
How is success determined?
Your Product Today
In the Video
What was the impact?
Build
Idea
Product
Measure Learn
Data
Build
Idea
Product
Measure Learn
Data
The Goal is to Shorten the
Learning Cycle
Turn your Requirement into an Hypothesis
If we do X then Y% of customers will behave in way Z
Paper Prototyping
Explainer Video
Facade
Identify the riskiest assumption for your
current product.
How could you validate (or invalidate)
it quicker?
David Hawks
www.AgileVelocity.com Blog: www.Aus7nAgile.com
Twijer: @Aus7nAgile
Thanks!
