Effectively Applied Specification Workshop ... Flow Into Code
Experience Effectively Applied Specification Workshop, Backlog Refinement, Stakeholder Interaction and Their Flow Into (Unit)Test and Code
At the Scrum Gathering 2019 - Vienna, I presented this talk.
Summary
Developers are brilliant people, but why does the outcome not match the business need? Should the business invest in more brilliant developers? This doesn’t seem reasonable, but what to change?
It’s a slim dividing line between a well working process and one that doesn’t. Teaching this theoretically or just replicating from books almost always fails. In this session we provide the opportunity to experience a well working process first hand.
The speaker, co-speaker and supporters will engagingly, entertainingly, and educationally “play” several times the process of Refinement, Specification Workshop, Stakeholder Interview down into Executable Specification, and Code. During each play, attendees are actively invited to inspect what they have seen and maybe even join the act the next time. We will demonstrate and experiment with common situations and how they influence the matching or non-matching business need.
With this active format, we achieve a living storytelling and learning event. All attendees learn what they can contribute to the success while fulfilling their role as Developer, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Subject Matter Expert or Stakeholder.
Learning Objectives
- Everybody involved in facilitation, contribution or coaching the process of refinement over executable specification into code should have an idea of how to better support the process.
- Attendees will see and learn “one” good working way of the process for study.
- Attendees will discover early indicator for failing process and how to guide the process back onto success.
