Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

Breakthrough

If you’re struggling with how to get a whole team working together on one story at time, we recommend the following: Have the team identify four small features (or four small aspects of a larger feature) that need to be done, and then have the team work together on one feature at a time, with the goal (or perhaps more strongly, the edict) of working on and completing one feature together by the end of each week.

This approach requires that the team create small user stories that will fit into a 1-week iteration. Completing each story within a week requires that the team creates small tasks and adopts the parallelization approach previously described. When the iteration story and the associated small tasks are in place, the team ...