From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories

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Workflow of an iteration

Workflow of an iteration

- The next set of videos will focus on how to write effective user stories, developing its acceptance criterion, size the story, and prioritize it. Before that deep dive, I want to look at how user stories allow for us to build in small increments with quick feedback. Let's look at the flow of a story in development. Timeboxes, referred to as sprints or iterations, are the heart of an Agile way of working. Where the traditional approach has one massive timebox, the project itself, the Agile way of working has many short timeboxes that are started and completed in succession. This is one of the biggest differences between traditional and Agile. Using a traditional way of working, we often have a project timeline with a single timebox running for six months, nine months, or even beyond a year, and we will see the work move through phases sequentially. In comparison, let's take a look at an Agile way of working that uses what is known as a timeboxed approach. Here, we utilize very short…

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