What made you be part of friend’s tribe? You might believe “proximity, we grew up in the same neighbourhood” . Ok , if it’s the case your tribe is composed of the same friends you had from your childhood, that’s a good point. However, I am sure there were many other people in the same
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Agile Game Development: Planning, what is a User Story?
Recently, Jose Ramón and I are working with the guys from King.com at Barcelona. Some of our learnings there is that in game development, we tend to think that a game feature is a User Story. This belief leads us to think that developing US takes way longer than a reasonable time for a sprint,
Read on »ScrumMasters and Dragons : Bcn Session
Last Wednesday, March 20th, Agilar celebrated the end of this winter in Barcelona organizing a “ScrumMasters and Dragons” session, in collaboration with Appstylus . We had the opportunity to perform this session with around 20 people, with different skills: From agile coaches, members of the Agile BCN community, some advanced practitioners and some newbies. From Agilar, we had the pride to
Read on »Estimating User Stories: Agile relative estimations vs single-and-direct US estimation
Ok, time to speak about agile planification. Estimating user stories one-by-one is a common ( bad ) practice in many teams. What stage are you currently? My team doesn’t use Story Points, we still estimate in man-hour, and we plan our week capacity to be 40 hours / week / developer. My team doesn’t use
Read on »Measuring team velocity in User Stories
Let’s consider a scrum team who is working together from enough time as to have reached their “performing” stage. And in this consideration, the term team includes the Product Owner. Let’s imagine this team is starting a new project, in the same technologies and in a business area they already know, so no specific complications. The
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