Agile Portfolio Planning and Business Epic Kanban System Overview

My colleague and “agile ninja”, Chad Holdorf, has been working with agile at enterprise scale for some time now. He has adopted the Big Picture from my Agile Software Requirements book, which he describes as a “Scaled Agile Delivery Model” (I like that name a lot; I might even adopt it). Recently, he has been [...]

Amazon Kindle Version of Agile Software Requirements Should be Available Again Soon

To those readers wondering what happened to the Kindle version of Agile Software Requirements, I’ve just been advised by the publisher that there were some technical issues with the files which have now been fixed. The book should reappear in Kindle form by about April 27, but that date is just an estimate. Sorry for [...]

Tooling to Automate User Story Verification

In a recent post, I noted that Craig Langenfeld, my co-contributor on the Agile in High-Assurance and Regulated Environments series, was beginning to describe how tooling can be used to automate (or semi-automate) much of the formal verification activities we’ll need to assure that a) our software works exactly as intended, and b) leaving a [...]

Splitting Epics, Features and User Stories

It will come as no surprise to any agilist that one of the hardest parts of agile development is the ability to split valued, useful work into stories small enough to fit in a sprint. Indeed, team after team has commented on this challenge and they are constantly looking for ways to make this easier, [...]

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