Comments on: Feature Injection and handling technical stories

By: liz

liz — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:07:58 +0000

http://lizkeogh.com/2011/01/14/why-i-didnt-sign-the-software-craftsmanship-manifesto/ – I’m not exactly one of the craftsmanship crowd.

This is only one of the blogs and articles I’ve written on Feature Injection. Please feel free to explore the others. I also recommend Chris Matts’ work.

By: Derek Neighbors

Derek Neighbors — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:49:50 +0000

Sounds like flowery language and a forced template to justify low value stories for the craftsmanship crowd.

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[...] do we make these achievements relevant to a wider audience? Start by describing the work in a different way – talk about the work that’s being done in terms of its benefit to our [...]

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[...] when writing features that entail systems or are purely technical in nature. I highly recommend Liz Keogh’s post about this subject as it greatly helped me in learning how to phrase such technical stories. With that said, lets look [...]

By: Ahmed N

Ahmed N — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:48:16 +0000

This is a great way to capture the non functional requirements as well. I am going to use this for a project.

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By: Matt Green

Matt Green — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:57:56 +0000

I’m just about to try out this technique on a project…I’ll let you know how it goes! Fingers x-ed

By: Alistair

Alistair — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:20:17 +0000

In order to not get bored to death by writing the same general boilerplate text on hundreds very similar looking rather small stories, as a writer of user stories, I want a shorter template;

In order to not glaze over with boredom when reading hundreds of very similar rather small stories, and miss the point of the message in all the verbiage, as a reader of user stories, I want the writers of the user stories to use a shorter template.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:35:07 +0000

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Loved it. More please.

By: liz

liz — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:02:46 +0000

Hi Al,

A couple of business stakeholders on one of the projects I was on used to refer to stories as “begging letters for functionality”. That’s because they would make their stories, come to the BA and hope that it somehow fitted into the vision that the analysts had for making money.

By putting the vision first, it helps people realise that they can’t – and shouldn’t – even start writing a story, unless it’s needed to contribute to the vision.

By: Al Gonzalez

Al Gonzalez — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:08:28 +0000

Why not keep the same template and just clarify the role and benfit?

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