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The #1 challenge for teams after scrum training is writing small, well-scoped, testable stories.

Net Objectives

While you can take a course and then pay for coaching after the workshop to learn this is not just expensive but wastes the time of your staff and often produces resistance. . Most Scrum courses teach story writing w/ "As a I want so that I get ". This is good in that it tells you what you want and why.

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Definition of Done vs. User Stories vs. Acceptance Criteria

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of “Done” and Acceptance Criteria , and how they relate to User Stories. While Acceptance Criteria is a commonly understood concept in software development, Definition of “Done” is unique to Scrum. User Stories.

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Why It's So Important to Learn ATDD upfront.

Net Objectives

First, let's be clear what we mean by Acceptance Test-Driven Development. It does not mean automating testing. Most companies delay ATDD because CSM and team level courses for SAFe don't include it. Most companies delay ATDD because CSM and team level courses for SAFe don't include it.

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Why It's So Important to Learn ATDD upfront.

Net Objectives

First, let's be clear what we mean by Acceptance Test-Driven Development. It does not mean automating testing. Most companies delay ATDD because CSM and team level courses for SAFe don't include it. Most companies delay ATDD because CSM and team level courses for SAFe don't include it.

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No Fighting In This (Agile) Dojo with M. David Green

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

The results will be more engaged team members, scrum masters, and a way of working that converts skeptics and naysayers into Agile evangelists. Engaged scrum masters are essential for long-term change (26:49). Scrum: Novice to Ninja: [link]. So, let’s take one of them, I think you said unit testing, is that right?

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Don’t forget the developers!

Silk and Spinach

In many of them I see a familiar pattern: The managers and business analysts are sent on courses and sent to conferences and given books to read; most of them change their job title to things like Scrum Master or Product Owner; they create their plans using “stories” written on post-it notes, and they organise their projects into Sprints.

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

QSM found 11% defect reduction and 58% schedule reduction on a Scrum team; 75% defect reduction and 53% schedule reduction on an XP team; and 75% defect reduction and 30% schedule reduction in a multi-team analysis of thousands of developers. Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development.