Agile Planning Invest in Stories

Raluca Breaur

26.11.2011

Traditional planning

Agile Planning Onion

PRODUCT

ROADMAP

RELEASE

ITERATION

DAY

Agile PlanningRelease Planning

Iteration Planning

Release PlanningVisionFixed in TIME or SCOPERelease anytimeProduct Owner

Product

Release 1

MMF 1

STORY 1

STORY 2

STORY 3

MMF2 STORY 4

MMF3

STORY 5

STORY 6

Minimal Marketable Feature EpicFeature

StoryNot requirementsNot use cases

1-2 line description of the work“Promissory notes for a future conversation”

(Alistar Cockburn)

Product Owner

Creates

Story

Product OwnerTeam

Story

Team

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3

13

8

Sizing

1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, …

S, M, L

XS, S, M, L, XL

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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3

13

8Product Owner

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3

13

8

`

5

1

20

`

13

2

8

Sized storiesProduct backlogRelease backlog

`

3

13

8

`

5

1

20

`

13

2

8

`

3

`

5

`

13

1

Product backlog

Iteration backlog

Velocity = 22

Team

Story

Èngineering tasks

Story

DONE DONE

Developed

Tested

…

Iteration Planning Iteration TIMEBOXEDVelocity

Initial estimates Done Done Stories

Sized storiesStories -> smaller storiesStories -> tasks Tasks – estimated (hours)Tasks are NOT allocatedCommit

Engineering Task

STORY 2

STORY 3

Engineering Task

Engineering Task

Engineering Task

Story

Product Owner Team

Ce informatii trebuie introduse pentru a crea un cont?

Product Owner Team

That’s easy, It’s a 5Ce informatii trebuie introduse pentru a crea un cont?

Doar emailul si o parola.

Product Owner Team

Trebuie sa trimitem un mail si sa adaugam userul in CRM

Product Owner Team

Hmm...Este prea mare ca sa pot estima.Ar trebui sa impartim storiul.

Trebuie sa trimitem un mail si sa adaugam userul in CRM

Product Owner Team

E ok daca facem doar prima parte acum?

Product Owner Team

Da

Product Owner Team

Atunci e simplu. E un 3.

Product Owner Team

Story - InvestIndependentNegotiableValuableEstimableSmallTestable

Split Stories – WHY ? 2 components with different priorities

Too big to estimate

Too big compared to the iteration4-10 stories per iteration

Split Stories - HOW

Split Stories - HOW

Large stories – Vertical slicesAlong the boundaries of the data

Split Stories - HOW

Large stories – Vertical slicesBased on the operations that are

performed

Large stories – Vertical slicesSeparate CRUD operations

Split Stories - HOW

Split Stories - HOW

Remove cross-cutting concerns (security, logging)

Create 2 version of the story one with the cross-cutting concern and one

without

Split Stories - HOW

Large story – functional and non functional

Split Stories - HOW

Large story – smaller stories with different priorities

Special storiesDocumentation

Nonfunctional

Bug stories

Spike stories

Example – App StoreAs a user I want to create an account so that I can log in the application.

As a user I want to view and search for applications so that I can see their details.

As a user I want to download an application so that I can use it.

As a user I want to rate an application and view ratings so that I can decide easier.

As a user I want to receive recommendations so that I am informed.

As a user I want to see latest downloads.As a user I want to manage a wish list.

Example – App StoreAs a user I want to create an account so that I can log in the application.

As a user I want to view and search for applications so that I can see their details.

As a user I want to download an application so that I can use it.

As a user I want to rate an application and view ratings so that I can decide easier.

As a user I want to see latest downloads.As a user I want to manage a wish list. As a user I want to receive recommendations so that I am informed.

Example AppStore – Velocity 15As a user I want to create an account so that I can log in the application.

As a user I want to view and search for applications so that I can see their details.

Example AppStore – Velocity 15As a user I want to create an account so that I can log in the application.

As a user I want to view all applications so that I can see their details

As a user I want search for applications so that I can see their details.

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Raluca Breaur