December 2007
Beginner to intermediate
495 pages
10h 45m
English
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Chapter 4. User Stories and Tasks: Getting to the real work
It’s time to go to work. User stories capture what you need to develop, but now it’s time to knuckle down and dish out the work that needs to be done so that you can bring those user stories to life. In this chapter you’ll learn how to break your user stories into tasks, and how task estimates help you track your project from inception to completion. You’ll learn how to update your board, moving tasks from in progress to complete, to finally completing an entire user story. Along the way, you’ll handle and prioritize the inevitable unexpected work your customer will add to your plate.
Introducing iSwoon
Welcome to iSwoon, soon to be the world’s finest desktop date planner! Here’s the big board, already loaded with user stories broken down into 20-work-day iterations:
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Date Rights Management (DRM) included
It’s time to get you and your team of developers working. Take each of the iSwoon user stories for Iteration 1 and assign each to a developer by drawing a line from the user story to the developer of your choice...
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