The Importance of Empathy in Digital Product Design
In today’s tech-first world, businesses are constantly competing for the attention of prospective customers, whether individual consumers or businesses. With so many choices available…
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Product Management vs. Project Management: What’s the Difference?
Product management and project management are important roles in software development, but they are often mistaken for being one and the same. The truth…
Why Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Makes User Stories 100% Better
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.
Online Planning Poker for Remote Teams
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.
As a team member, I want better user stories …
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.
Why Your “Bad Questions” Are Good (and Necessary)
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.
Want Effective Written Communication for Your Team? Murder Ambiguity.
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.
User Stories That Don’t Suck
Feel like your user stories are getting stale? Check out the Revelry process to write user stories that sets our team up for success!