How to Reduce User Story Reopen Count in Scrum Development?

PID-1185: How to Reduce User Story Reopen Count in Scrum Development?Vinod Kumar ChauhanAssistant ProfessorBVICAM, New Delhi, INDIA&Former Automation EngineerImpetus InfoTech Pvt. Ltd., INDIAEmail Id: jmdvinodjmd@gmail.com1Terminology!ScrumUser Story(US)Life Cycle of USOpen, In Progress, In Development, RFD, RFT, In Testing and DoneBug2Why a User Story is Reopened?Who is responsible?BA(Business Analyst)DeveloperQA(Quality Analyst)Environmental Issues3How to Reduce US Reopen Count?Work on the limitations of the BA, Developer and QA.Control the Environmental Issues.4Reduction of US Reopen Count

5Conclusion and Future ScopeWe can reduce the reopen count by improving the shortcomings from BA, developer and QA.We could further identify more weak areas of BA, developer and QA, depending on the project situations and tools used.This work on Scrum could be extended to other software development methodologies.6References[1] Vinod Kumar Chauhan. "Why Reopen Counts are high in Scrum Development?", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Vol.2, Issue 1, pp.431-435,March 2014, URL: http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1401075.pdf[2] Writing User Stories Effectively- http://www.janeve.me/articles/writing-user-storieseffectively [Last accessed: 30 Nov. 2014].[3] TooStep.com-"Domain Knowledge Vs. Analysis Skills: What is more important?- http://toostep.com/debate/domain-knowledge-vsanalysis-skills-what-is-more-important-, [Last accessed: 30 Nov. 2014].[4] Ambiguous software requirements lead to confusion, extra work- http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Ambiguous-software equirements-lead-to-confusion-extrawork, [Last accessed: 30 Nov. 2014].[5] The structure of a story- http://dannorth.net/whats-ina-story/, [Last accessed: 30 Nov. 2014].[6] Wikipedia: Scrum/User story, http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Scrum/User_story, [Last accessed: 30 Nov. 2014].[7] Wikipedia- Scrum (software development), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development), [Last accessed: 30 Nov. 2014].7Thank You!8