Many agile and scrum teams start with basic practices to enable self-organizing teams to better deliver on business priorities. Practices include committing to what teams can get done in a sprint, ...

Some of the critical problems for any team working in an Agile way are managing the backlog of user stories, converting epics into stories, preventing scope creep, and -- most importantly -- picking ...

As near as I can tell, everyone who's doing Agile is writing requirements in the user story format of "As <role> I need to <do something> so that I can <achieve some goal>." For example, "As a ...

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The key difference between story points and hours of effort is that story points are designed to compare the relative effort between tasks, while hours of effort calculations aim to predict the exact ...

Story Points: The (Imperfect) Way to Measure Effort in Agile Projects Your email has been sent We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or sponsorships. This ...

While no one’s disputing that automation is here to stay, whether it should infiltrate every aspect of software testing seems open to debate. My own take is that automation shouldn’t be applied ...