Chapter 7. Deliver Value

Being agile requires delivering real value so that customers succeed with your product.

By Scott Will

Years ago, Leslie and I were working with a team, helping them to write its first-ever set of user stories. (The team was in the earliest stages of adopting agile, and user stories were a brand-new concept for the team members). It took a little while, but the team started to get the hang of it and soon it was doing a good job writing stories without our help. After the project had been underway for a while, the project executive contacted the lead architect to say that a customer had just requested some new feature and wanted to know if the team could include the additional work in the project—and still maintain the ...

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