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Agile Project Lifecycle: User Stories and Release Planning

Posted by Rachel Davies on May 21, 2008 09:57 PM

Community
Agile
Topics
Agile Techniques,
Adopting Agile
Tags
User Stories,
Releases,
Qcon London 2007,
QCon
Summary
In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2007, Rachel Davies, director of Agile Alliance, talks about the Agile development cycle starting with user stories and planning the releases. This presentation is less about "why" one should use Agile over other development process, and more about the practical "how" one should proceed about being agile.

Bio
Rachel Davies coaches teams in Agile software development techniques, such as TDD and planning with user stories. She is passionate about Agile software development because it increases the chance of success projects in the face of complex problems. Rachel is internationally recognized in her field, as both a frequent presenter at industry conferences and Chair of the Agile Alliance.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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