Why Every Story should have Acceptance Criteria

Why Every Story should have Acceptance Criteria

Better Understand the Purpose of Story and Acceptance Criteria Some who practice scrum believe that acceptance criteria are optional. Others only write a one sentence summary and don’t even bother writing story requirements. These practices could be a recipe for...
Write Better Stories

Write Better Stories

The 5 Key Ingredients to Write Better Stories Every time we teach a GSD Scrum Training workshop, one of the most difficult concepts for students to grasp is how to write a story. On the surface, the concept seems quite simple: Describe the user’s functional...
3 Tips to Close More Stories

3 Tips to Close More Stories

Want to Close More Stories on Your Scrum Team? The scrum team’s job is to decide how many story points to bring into the sprint, determine the right stories to accept into the sprint backlog, and close all stories in the sprint backlog by the end of the sprint. Most...