The Agile (News - Alert) approach holds the promise of reduced development costs and time to market, but many adjustments must be made to traditional development methods. Organizations need user ...

Some of the critical problems for any team working in an Agile way are managing the backlog of user stories, converting epics into stories, preventing scope creep, and -- most importantly -- picking ...

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As near as I can tell, everyone who's doing Agile is writing requirements in the user story format of "As <role> I need to <do something> so that I can <achieve some goal>." For example, "As a ...

Many agile and scrum teams start with basic practices to enable self-organizing teams to better deliver on business priorities. Practices include committing to what teams can get done in a sprint, ...

While no one’s disputing that automation is here to stay, whether it should infiltrate every aspect of software testing seems open to debate. My own take is that automation shouldn’t be applied ...

Agile software development processes, in which software is built in short iterations rather than mapped out fully in advance, have joined the mainstream of development approaches, according to a ...

Product owners and software developers play two vitally different roles on an Agile team. The product owners provide the vision, while the programmers develop the software. In Jira, these separate ...

Agile product roadmaps are crucial for businesses seeking to thrive in today’s rapidly changing market. Unlike traditional, fixed roadmaps, agile roadmaps are flexible, adjusting in real-time to new ...

Agile has transformed the way technology organizations innovate. But in highly regulated industries such as insurance, ...