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Planning with User Stories

RachelDavies and Angela Martin

Introduction to Agile Track
Scheduled Time: 
Monday 19 November 2007, 01:30 to 03:00
Room: 
Glaziers Hall, The Banqueting Hall
Session type: 
tutorial
Intended audience and experience level: 

Suitable for beginners. Suitable for any job role within an agile team but especially for customers.

Prerequisites: 

None.

This session provides an introduction to creating a release plan with user stories. We start with a short presentation to introduce the basic approach. Participants then get to try the techniques for themselves through a series of exercises working in groups. The exercises have been used in training courses where we find students quickly get into the role play.

RachelDavies

Rachel Davies is a consultant and facilitator in United Kingdom. She has been working in the software industry for nearly 20 years. She coaches teams in XP and Scrum and advocates the use of frequent retrospectives to help teams adapt their process to their context. Rachel is a frequent presenter at agile conferences and director of the Agile Alliance.

Angela Martin

Angela Martin is an independent consultant with over thirteen years of professional software development experience; she works directly with programmers and customers on agile projects to deliver software that works. She is also completing her PhD research at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, supervised by James Noble and Robert Biddle. Her research utilizes in-depth case studies of the XP Customer Role to develop a substantive grounded theory. Angela has just completed a two-year term as a Director of the Agile Alliance.