For various reasons, there are situations when there is no running away from a Bunker Buster. An agile team should therefore be watchful. Once the…
“Prevention is better than cure” and one good way of handling Bunker Busters is to avoid them. Agile teams seem to be wary of handling…
As agile business analysts, we try to keep our stories small, independent, testable and valueable. Once in a while, though, we come face to face…
For sometime now I have got the feedback from developers, that the stories I write look small but have loads of work to be actually…
Incidentally my earlier post was about how Distributed Agile works. My unexpectedly long web silence was infact due to the current DA project that I…
So what happens to the agility when the project is distributed? Well, it suffers… It’s not that it doesn’t work in a distributed context. In…
The key practices of agile software development, known and followed are:1. Face-to-face communication over documentation2. Quick feedback from end users over project phases (as in…
Stories being testable and valuable is as important as them being small and independent. Perhaps more… because these are the two important characteristics which in…
Managing dependencies is another tricky issue that plagues agile business analysts. Fortunately it’s not as bad as the chicken and egg problem. The secret to…
One question that keeps analysts busy for a most of the time is whether or not to split a story. Here’s my philosophy behind my…