Scrum club progressiveelaboration-bobvincent

1. Progressive Elaboration & Specification
part 3
Agile Analysis & Design The Trilogy

2. Bob Vincent
•Product Manager
•XP, Scrum, Lean software projects since 2004
•CSPO, CSM

3. Progressive Elaboration
"Because of the potential for change, the project
management plan is iterative and goes through
progressive elaboration throughout the project's life
cycle. Progressive elaboration involves
continuously improving and detailing a plan as
more-detailed and specific information and
more accurate estimates become available."

5. Backlog
Epics
Stories

6. Agile Stories
•Describes an objective & motivation
•Does NOT describe the solution
•It’s pretty brief - “a promise for a conversation”

7. Story Title
•In order to [provide value]
•[persona(s)]
•want [a feature]

10. Acceptance Test-
Driven Planning
Process Agnostic
Participants:
Product Owner
Testers
Devs
UX
Defining
DONE

11. GIVEN [an initial context or condition]
WHEN [persona] [does something]
THEN [expected behavior occurs]
Acceptance Test-Driven Planning

13. Behavior/Test-Driven
Development
Process Agnostic
Participants:
Testers
Devs
UX

14. Behavior/Test-Driven Development
•Specify behavior (test) before writing code
•Test all the time
•Refactor
•Design all the time
•Code design needs to flex & grow
•Add spec/tests for new emergent behavior

15. User testing
Usability testing goals:•Effectiveness
•Efficiency
•Satisfaction
A
B

17. Task

18. “An interactive session with working software
is worth a thousand meetings.”

19. Backlog
Epics
Stories++

23. Thank You!