This episode @jacqueline007 Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman talks about other Backlog Work Items, besides just user stories.

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This episode covers Scrum; the roles, the artifacts, ceremonies, and rules.

The 4 Ceremonies You Always hear about

- Daily Stand Up

- Sprint Review

- Sprint Planning

- Sprint Retrospective

Are reinforced by 2 Additional Ceremonies

- Backlog Refinement (Taking Raw stories and doing the prework and research to get them ready for your planning ceremony)

- Scrum of Scrum (Cross Team Coordination of Shared Services)

Seeing these as ceremonies will help insure you do them on a regular cadence and on a consistent basis.

This episode covers the Agile Manifesto and is a review of it to keep us fresh on its terms and ideas.

Agile = Agility + Flexibility + Predictability.   

Our world is forcing every industry, every business (small and large) to be more agile, flexible and to be able to pivot often.  In some cases, business and teams have to look at their capacity on a day-by-day basis to determine their goals for the day.   In the IT industry, we've seen the rate of change get faster and faster with each innovation and new technology.  As one who has studied the evolution and rapid transition, I want to share my 15 years of lesson learned about process improvement, frameworks and guidelines.  Even though we know rigid frameworks don't work in a rapidly changing environment, it doesn't mean we can resort to managed or unmanaged chaos.

This episode covers how to run a story run workshop.

This episode covers who's wring the user story or who should be wring it.

This episode covers "So That" Statements or Purpose Statements or the Why. The question that should be asked is so what if we don't do this story what will we be lacking.

Using Business Value Points (BVP) for User Stories to help define scope, help prioritize and make planning smoother.

BVP can use the same framework as Story Points (i.e. a modified Fibonacci Sequence).

For example:

BVP 13 - Will provide a definite and significant tangible ROI (increase revenue, transactions, generate repeat customers) or is a Compliance Item which will result in Penalties if not done (Loss of Revenue)

BVP 8 -  Will provide some ROI (either a small - medium or is purely speculative)

BVP 5 - Is Necessary Cost of Doing Business but no Significant ROI

BVP 3 - Definitely will Delight the Customer but Low ROI

BVP 1  - Nice to Have; May Delight the Customer but Little to No ROI

Learn the purpose and intent of Acceptance Criteria.  Get tips on how to separate and keep your Acceptance Criteria from being:

(a) a list of tasks

(b) too technical

(c) a test script

And find out if the Gherkin Method (Given, When, Then) is right for your teams.