story in the slaughterhouse (seacon 2012)
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These are the slides from my session "Story in the Slaughterhouse - Epics und User Stories sauber filetieren" from the SEACON 2012 Conference in Hamburg, Germany, on June 5th 2012TRANSCRIPT
Story in the SlaughterhouseEpics und große User Stories sauber filetieren
Sven RöpstorffSEACON 2012
Hamburg, 05.06.2012
What Are User Stories Actually?
What Are User Stories Actually?
User stories are short, simple descriptions of a feature told from the perspective of the person who desires the new capability, usually a user or customer of the system.
-- Mike Cohn
Card Conversation Confirmation
Triple-C
Card
As who I want what so that why
Conversation
Confirmation
Acceptance Criteria
INVEST in good User Stories
Splitting Patterns
Imagine ...
... a mobile app as a conference guide
Split vertically
Split by Workflow
Split by Workflow
As a participant I would like to rate sessions I visited to give feedback to the
speakers and the organizers
Split by Business Rule
Split by Business Rule
As a participant I want to use flexible times to search for sessions
- starting between x and y o’clock
- with a duration of 45 minutes
- starting early afternoon
- starting at 10am +/- half an hour
Split by Complexity
Split by data type
Split by data type
As a speaker I want to offer additional information to my session so that
potential participants can decide whether to attend
- text documents- videos- audiofiles and podcasts
Split by Data Entry
Split by Data Entry
As a participant I want to create a list of interesting sessions to ensure not to miss
one of them
- notepad- bookmarks- mark as favorite, show in favorite list- drag & drop to favorites- drag & drop to calendar
Split by effort
Split by effort
As a participant I want to pay with credit card
Acceptance Criteria:Visa, Master Card, Diners Club, American Express
As a participant I want to pay with one credit card (out of Visa, MC, DC, AE)- As a participant I want to pay with MC- As a participant I want to pay with DC- As a participant I want to pay with AE
Split by Quality
Split by Quality
As a content provider I want to manage the application content in an easy way
- manage = create, delete, edit- in an easy way:
a) sql-commandlineb) prepared scriptsc) web frontend
Split by user role
As a member of the support staff I want to get a unique error id from the calling user
As an iPhone app user I want to get a meaningful error message so that I know what to do next
Split by user role
As a user of the app I want to get a meaningful error message so that I know
what to do next
As a developer I want the app write stack traces including a unique error id
Split by Performance
Split by Performance
As a participant I want to search the session catalogue for certain keywords
- Slow, takes 15 seconds, search animation- fast, result after less than 2 seconds
Split by Research
Split by Research
As a participant I want to pay with credit card
Acceptance Criteria:Visa, Master Card, Diners Club, American Express
- investigate credit card processing- implement credit card processing
Which pattern to use?
EqualizeStory Size
Deprioritizeor trash
References
References
availableSeptember 2012
Get in touch
Sven RöpstorffAgile Project Manager & Coach
Email: [email protected]: @oedel
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