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Alan Shalloway
With over 40 years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum and agile design. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in these areas. read more » TT Session 3: The Importance of Short Stories
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 11:41 — andrea- The role stories play and clarify some of the confusion around the term
- The story writing process and how it relates to acceptance testing
- The importance of keeping the stories short
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This webinar addresses the difficulty in breaking down stories to the right size while keeping the business value in mind. The solution is to focus on the business rules that are manifested in the product. The result is stories that are smaller, can be defined independently, and are less coupled. This results in:
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This webinar is for Lean-Agile teams who want to understand what makes for effective stories, how to write them, and how big they should be. You will learn:
