From the course: Agile Requirements Foundations
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Story slicing and splitting
From the course: Agile Requirements Foundations
Story slicing and splitting
- Story-slicing, or splitting, is an essential skill and can prevent many of the typical challenges Agile teams experience. To build features effectively, and deliver user value in increments, the functionality needs to be broken down further into smaller user stories. Many times the team keeps splitting the user stories into smaller pieces of value, so they can complete the story in a sprint. This is called story-slicing or splitting. It helps ensure the team can estimate and commit to the work, and that the item is valuable to the customer and product owner. It also helps the team avoid breaking down the user story by technical tasks, which leaves the team with pieces that are difficult to test, demo and get feedback on. If user stories are chunked out by technical tasks or component, then the product owner will have a difficult time prioritizing, since the technical piece does not really have the business or customer value defined. Let's look at an example from our online coffee…
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