I have worked with some agile product owners who when the write user stories, the like to go epic on the acceptance criteria, in fact when you read their acceptance criteria it almost looks like a complete functional specification crammed in to acceptance criteria. Other product owners simply write a user story and expect that all acceptance criteria will …

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Agile Humor, a true story of agile clashing with teenage chores. I just had a conversation with my teenage son regarding what “doing the dishes” means, which evolved several user stories which included the following using the As a ___ I need ____ so that _____ format for user stories.  I realized that we never had a decent list of …

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Last year I finally got fed up with the internal tools that I was using to manage Agile backlogs and Agile workflows, and I decided to build my own.   I first named it GroupScrum which was later renamed to AgiPlanner, but too many people thought it sounded like an agricultural product.  Recently the product has been renamed to Uzility, …

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