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The Agile Core Practices

There are certain core Agile practices you might be doing as a team – and not necessarily calling yourself Agile or using the framework names, but still working in an Agile way. Knowing these core practices is a great way to get a deeper understanding of Agile as an approach.

One of the best places to update your skills in Agile is from the Agile Practice Guide, by the Project Management Institute and Agile Alliance. This one in particular is collaborative user story creation.

Collaborative User Story Creation

With collaborative user story creation, it’s important because poor specifications are usually a major reason for project failure. We may have specified what the customer wants, and then when they actually get their hands on it they may actually have wanted something different. Or we may have misinterpreted what they wanted in the first place. Al of this results in them not really being happy with the end result. So poor specifications are often that major reason for project failure.

In Agile development, user stories are written with with a lot of the people involved, from the customers through to the people creating the product. We’ve got the developers who are developing our product, testers, business representatives or the product owner in the whole team approach. We have frequent informal reviews of the things that they’re creating just to make sure that they’re right, and everyone who needs to be is always involved.

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