Specification by Example - Agile India 2015

right product

ankur sambhar | [email protected]

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Agile India 2015

whatwe will discuss?

who I am

why they

failed?

products werenot right

building

building

product right

right product

Vs

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how to buildright product?

leveragingspecification-by-example

whywe need specification-by-example?

Agile transformationwhat all has changed with

ensure everyone understandswhat needs to be delivered

precise specifications to eliminate ambiguities and gaps

efficient acceptance criteriato measure completeness

documentation to facilitate change

whatis it really?

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specifying

business goals

deriving scope

examplescollaboratively specify

refining specification

automated validation of specifications

building living documentation

why we adopted SBE? 

distributed teams

SMEs not co-located

complex business rules

regression packbuilding

what worked for us? 

when to create it?

during product backlog grooming

(PBR) sessions

who all shouldparticipate in it?

anyone who can contribute in specifying examples

“3 Amigos”meeting

this is

how many examples are good enough?

what level of granularity?

who should author examples?

everyone understood requirements correctly?

how to check onregression?

where does it fit in Scrum?

product backlog refinement sessions (PBR)

Definition-of-Ready (DoR)

Definition-of-Done (DoD)

that we used?tools

whiteboards

spreadsheets

fitness & cucumber

let’s continue building right product

rightly

questions& answers?