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New Post 12/3/2008 12:01 PM
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User is offline hendrix24
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Agile Documentation 

If you have read Scott Ambler's recent interview on Agile which I think he did a great job of explaining in a high level view of what Agile documentation is all about, then you may have more questions about how people are really documenting "stories."  My company has been practicing Agile for 2 years now and we have evolved from the many retrospectives to try and get the "right" level of documentation at the "right" time.  We follow the User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn methodology for User Stories but are constantly searching the web and seeking out others that are Agile to see what their artifacts are.  We have recently decided to start with models (following Agile Modeling,  by Scott Ambler) to capture understanding of the requirements and then put that understanding on a user story level which we are constantly adding information to the closer we get to development time.  What I think that we are missing from the discussion is exactly what people are doing and I would like see what other people's processes are when it comes to using user stories and documenting requirements for the developers and the stakeholders. 

 

 
New Post 12/4/2008 12:04 PM
User is offline Neville
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Re: Agile Documentation 

Here is a new post http://www.requirementsnetwork.com/node/1381.  It contains a PDF, where David Nimmo with IBM chronicles one of his requirements gathering efforts.  With a tight deadline to gather requirements for a new system he directly applied the Agile Manifesto to his BA efforts.  Lots of good examples demonstrating slimmed down "use cases" and a day-by-day description of his team effort on the project.

 
New Post 12/4/2008 1:24 PM
User is offline Ellen Gottesdiener
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Re: Agile Documentation 

Here is another reference on this topic, a short article "YAGNI Your Requirements Documentation" related to this topic of agile documentation. i hope you find it useful.

~ ellen

Ellen Gottesdiener

EBG Consulting

www.ebgconsulting.com

 

 
New Post 12/25/2008 11:47 PM
User is offline Craig Brown
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Re: Agile Documentation 

I am working on a project which has switched from use cases to user stories (a la Cohn). 

The business users and developers are quite happy with the change, although there was some issue with the level of detail in the user stories when discussing them with a  forum of user representatives.

And some parts of the user community are having a real struggle with having to RANK user stories.

Additionally the user stories are currently running without higher order requirements statements - such as a product roadmap or product vision. This is a serious deficiency I hope to see remedied in the new year.

 
New Post 1/9/2009 3:01 AM
User is offline Craig Brown
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Re: Agile Documentation 

Alistair Cockburn writes an article on why use cases shoulod sgtill be used for agile projects.  Acces via a link on this blog post

 
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