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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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5 Tips for Successfully Implementing Behavior-Driven Development in Your Team

Gorilla Logic

It enhances your existing Agile approach , synthesizing Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD). You start by defining the desired behavior of the software in terms of concrete examples or scenarios that describe the behavior of the system in a clear, concise way.

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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). Convincing skeptics to try a new system (32:12). Scrum: Novice to Ninja: [link]. Show Notes.

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

How about a real-time embedded system? This is how it turns out: The GMS team delivered this product after three years of development, having encountered a total of 51 defects during that time. Test-Driven Development. Test-driven development is your defect-elimination workhorse.

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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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Kick start your Agile Transformation Journey (and be a Digital Disruptor)

Capgemini

Tomorrow’s leaders are already starting to transform towards new delivery models that will enable them to develop more exploratory and adaptive strategies. The information system (IS) of the future supports this approach and delivers an abundance of innovative services in record time. That’s not all.

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Scrum by Example – How to Handle Production Support Issues in Scrum

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Whenever you are building and deploying a complex system, there are always going to be bugs, defects, and unforeseen problems with usability — commonly referred to as Production Support issues. Most organizations that run these kinds of systems have helpdesks for users to raise these issues with.

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