Planning poker is an important part of estimating time spent on a project. But how do companies that recently went remote do planning poker? Here’s how we do planning poker for remote teams.
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At Revelry, we use BDD for all members of the team — and yes, that team includes our clients — so that everyone is clear about the intended user experience in the final product. Revelry’s flavor of BDD is a process for describing software features that is biased toward user’s actions and the results of those actions.
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Instead of living in fear that you’re the one asking bad questions, consider that your questions will probably lead your team to deliver better outcomes.
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It may be simple to use pronouns like “this, that, these, those, and they”, but Thomas Knoll says that these are ambiguous and dangerous words. And you should murder them.
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Here’s a template for writing a user story that helps you imagine that you’re the user, so that you can think about how you would want to use the system. The template is a tool to prevent you from retreating back into the developer’s perspective.
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Feel like your user stories are getting stale? Check out the Revelry process to write user stories that sets our team up for success!
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The first nouns & verbs are: Who are we making this for? What does she want to do? [Implied: Why does she want to do that? What feels like sunshine? What feels like crosstown traffic?]
Tighten the noun until it’s almost proper. Urban Explorers Who Brook No Uncertainty in Transportation instead of riders.