Posts Tagged story points
No Points for You! Come Back 1 Sprint!
Posted by David Bland in agile on April 20, 2011
It is the end of the iteration, and your team notices that a user story is only partially completed. This could have happened for a variety of reasons such as:
- the story was under estimated
- we ran into an impediment we could not remove
- the Product Owner changed the scope of the story
- we opened too many stories and could not finish this one
- a team member became ill
- and so forth and so on…
The team members begin to converse about whether or not they should get credit for the work they have completed on this user story. Ultimately the eyes land on you Mr. Agile Coach / ScrumMaster / Defacto Answerer of Such Things… [Read More]
Sizing Up the Enterprise
Posted by David Bland in agile, enterprise, scrum on January 24, 2010
As teams begin to estimate User Stories, they may explore different approaches such as T-Shirt sizes and Fibonacci sequences that stop at 8 or go much higher. This freedom to choose a relative sizing style allows a team to adopt what fits well within their work environment. While this flexible approach is quite useful at [...]
