What Happens to Sprint Backlog Items at the End of a Sprint?
What happens to a Sprint Backlog Item at the end of a sprint? Does it have no further use? Should the team just tear up the story card and throw it away?
Rebooting the Use Case Diagram
Use cases have fallen out of favour in recent times with user stories becoming the preferred way for teams to manage requirements. In the rush away from use cases, everyone seems to have forgotten Use Case Diagrams.
How Can Agile Teams Capture Non-Functional Requirements?
Most agile teams are familiar with a Product Backlog. In this post, I propose teams should maintain "Constraint Backlog" of non-functional requirements alongside their Product Backlog.
Test Driving the Requirements Discovery Canvas
Its been over a year since I first published my "Requirements Discovery Canvas". Since then, I have learnt a lot from applying the canvas and sharing it with various groups in Australia and Asia.
The Requirements Discovery Canvas in a Nutshell
My original post describing the Requirements Discovery Canvas is quite lengthy and requires a fair investment of time to read. This post is for those wanting to get a quick overview of the canvas and how it is used.
Product Backlog or Wishlist?
In this post, I am going to focus on the "Features" column of the canvas which prompts a team to answer the question, "How could the stakeholders use software as a tool?". The other columns of the canvas provide the context for answering this question with the canvas as a whole providing a visual framework for organising what the team discovers.
BABOK Version 3 and the Requirements Discovery Canvas
Business Model Canvas and Collaborative Games are among the new business analysis techniques introduced in BABOK Version 3. This makes the Requirements Discovery Canvas an ideal companion for the latest version of BABOK.
Strategies For Requirements Discovery
The Requirements Discovery Canvas guides teams through the discovery process in two ways. First, it prompts the team to consider some fundamental requirements questions. Secondly, it serves as a visual framework for organising what the team discovers.