Agile
Are Your Stories Ready?
This week I was particularly impressed with a method used by a Scrum Master to help his team understand which stories on the backlog were “ready” and which were not. It’s amazing how such a simple technique can bring the transparency needed to help a team prepare for a successful sprint. His technique is to use colored stickers as markers on the ordered product backlog hanging on the wall next to the team’s scrum board to indicate the state of the story. If the story is not ready it gets a red sticker.
