(2009-01-08) Dehora Big Agile Stories

Bill De Hora discusses how to work with Agile Software Development requirements that are bigger than the normal User Story. One simple approach is to enhance your story or Kanban Board from a set of vertical swimlanes into a matrix where Themes are each given a horizontal slice on the board and each Theme has its own set of Stories. The entire board represents the Epic. This provides visibility on how software is progressing overall at a level above story cards, which is suitable for people who will care about different themes at different times, which features are bottlenecking and where. It will work well for integrations and visualising dependency issues day to day.