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In agile methodologies, the story point is used as a way to estimate the effort it would take to complete a piece of work. The inputs to estimate story points are the complexity of the task and the amount of times that the task must be executed.
During agile rituals (sometimes called meetings), the number of story points for a task is estimated by all the members of an agile team. The value of this estimation process is two fold.
The user story is a great way to put yourself in the “user” seat and do a reality check for whether what you are planning to build is something the “user” really needs or wants. The user story formula goes
As a [user description]
I [want, need, wish] to [some goal]
so that [some benefit].
Though this formula appears simple, I often see it applied in the wrong way.
Continue reading “Three steps to getting user stories right”
A hackathon is to coding what a marathon is to running. Hackathons bring together coders and designers to work on a problem, or challenge, and produce some result, usually presented in a pitch slam at the end of the event. I have completed three different hackathons with three different teams and won a total of four prizes with them. This post is about how my teams did it.
