User Stories and Tasks – Part 6
Independent
For a user story to be independent, it must address a specific action and contain all parts to fulfill that action. If a user story contains only a small portion of a process, it may depend on other actions to accomplish that goal. In that case, the user story is not independent. Alternatively, a user story may contain numerous actions that could each be an individual user story. These multiple actions should be split out into their own respective user stories.
A good judge of independence for a user story is to examine what a product will look like when that user story is finished. If that feature needs more work before it improves the value of the product, the user story may need more content to be independent. When the user story is finished, if the product has working new functionality, that user story likely satisfies the independence criteria.
Negotiable
A user story is negotiable if nuance and detail are left to the team to figure out. A good user story only hits the highlights, including the most valuable and critical details of a feature. Since most of the details about a feature are up for debate, the team can discuss the best way to implement the feature. During the development process, details about the user story should fall into place, while the team satisfies the criteria that are explicitly stated in the user story.
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This ‘Master of Agile – Agile Scrum Developer With 59 Seconds Agile (Video Training Course)’ provides an in-depth understanding of the Agile Scrum Developer roles and responsibilities
You will explore the Agile Scrum project life-cycle, including how an Agile User Story is created, to how we know when it is ‘done’
This course is aimed at those with or without prior knowledge and experience of the Agile values and principles
During this course you will learn the tools needed to succeed as an Agile Scrum Developer
What will you learn?
You will gain an in-depth understanding of the Agile Scrum Developer roles and responsibilities, and you will be able to
- Fully understand the role of the Agile Scrum Developer
- Understand the roles involved in an Agile project
- Create an effective Product Backlog
- Effectively participate in Scrum Meetings such as the Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Retrospective
- Identify the roles involves in the Scrum Team
What topics are covered within this course
You will cover the following topics during this course:
- An Introduction to Agile Project Management (Developer)
- The 12 Agile Principles (Developer)
- Introduction to Scrum (Developer)
- Scrum Project Roles (Developer)
- The Agile Project Life-cycle (Developer)
- Acceptance Criteria and the Prioritised Product Backlog (Developer)
- Initiating an Agile Project (Developer)
- Forming the Scrum Team (Developer)
- Epics and Personas (Developer)
- User Stories and Tasks (Developer)
- Implementation of Scrum (Developer)
- The Daily Scrum (Developer)
- The Product Backlog (Developer)
- Scrum Charts (Developer)
- Review and Retrospective (Developer)
- Validating a Sprint (Developer)
- Retrospective Sprint (Developer)
- Releasing the Product (Developer)
- The Communication Plan (Developer)
- Formal Business Sign-off (Developer)
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