November 2009
2 posts
Agile User Story Format and Philosophy
An excerpt from our company wiki page detailing how we write User Stories. Thought it was worth sharing.
I intend to write other posts in this series, detailing how we got to this point. Of course, int the spirit of agile we will change this format over time to better suit our needs; this is our jumping off point.
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What are...
Recruiting Koan #1: The Hard Hat
In Zen Buddhism there exists the tradition of the koan, which Western eyes often see as equivalent to a rhetorical question, eg. ‘what is the sound of one hand clapping?’
While it is true that these questions don’t have logical, immediately obvious answers, it is not the case that they have no answers at all, or that they are open to creative interpretation. This practice of...