The following is a fictitious example of the type of conversation that could occur at many organizations claiming to use agile development methods. Joan is the VP of engineering at Trendy Startup, a rapidly-expanding company developing a suite of cloud storage products and services. Joan's organization uses the popular scrum development process to develop its products. Product managers and owners create user stories, allocate them to iterations and releases, and manage them in backlogs. Quality assurance (QA) engineers write tests for the user stories, and developers implement the user stories. Team members meet daily to review the previous day's accomplishments, agree on what they'll do today, and surface any obstacles they are facing. Joan is proud of her teams and their adoption of agile methods and practices. She touts the Trendy Startup's development processes to her fellow executives and to prospects and customers. All members of her product teams hav...
"Smart product decisions"