User Stories and Release Planning – Difficulties and Nuggets

In this discussion, we’ll look at some very specific techniques. We'll begin by quickly covering the basics of user stories. Even if you’ve never written user stories, you’ll quickly learn the basics. We’ll discuss what you get, what you don’t get, and some of the specific challenges with User Stories (and how to address those challenges). Then we’ll tie those stories (or any other form of requirement) into a release plan. We’ll discuss team velocity and see how and why agile release planning really works. Specifically, we'll address the number one question….“When will it be done?”