Tips for Tasking Stories during Iteration Planning
The best thing about working with such a large organization is the exposure to multiple teams with varying types of work. Different teams have different challenges which definitely keeps me on my toes. One of most difficult aspects teams face, from my experience, is breaking down their stories into development tasks so the team can shift their mindset from each developer working on 1 story to having multiple teams members work on the same story simultaneously. Some of the challenges with...
Read MoreSimple method for handling tough task breakout sessions
Sometimes you may find that developers have a really great understanding of the business value of a story and understand what needs to be built but then the nasty implementation discussion begins and the team has a hard time figuring out how to do their task breakout. “How do we know the tasks when we don’t know how it will be built?” Stories need to be dissected right about the time the sprint is supposed to start so the story is small, testable and can fit into the...
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