5. Product Backlog
“The product backlog is an ordered list of everything that
might be needed in the product and is the single source of
requirements for any changes to be made to the product.
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6. Backlog Items
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Feature
Epic
User Story
Task
a distinct element of functionality which can provide capabilities to the business
big User Story
new functionality
both development and testing tasks
work to address a defect
7. Acceptance Criteria
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“ Acceptance criteria define the parameters of a User Story and
determine when a story is completed and working as expected.
8. Benefits of acceptance criteria
Focusing the team on how a feature will work from the
customer’s perspective
Removing ambiguity from the requirements
Forming the tests that will confirm that the feature is
working and complete
Limiting the developers to adding only the functionality
that the US requires
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15. Summary
Agile or not do not skip RDM
Good backlog as a way to build a software that matters
Acceptance criteria and its’ benefits
Ways of managing backlog and requirements
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