Comments on: Book Review: User Stories Applied http://blog.global-roam.com/index.php/2009/11/book-review-user-stories-applied/ Lessons we're learning about business, life & art in our software development company Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:14:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Making Things Happen – Mastering Project Management | Behind the Scenes at Global-Roam http://blog.global-roam.com/index.php/2009/11/book-review-user-stories-applied/comment-page-1/#comment-1335 Making Things Happen – Mastering Project Management | Behind the Scenes at Global-Roam Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:45:01 +0000 http://blog.global-roam.com/?p=976#comment-1335 [...] so (for instance, the book comes out very strongly in favour of larger documentation, as opposed to ”simpler” User Stories for [...] [...] so (for instance, the book comes out very strongly in favour of larger documentation, as opposed to ”simpler” User Stories for [...]

]]> By: Communicating Clearly – how we/I can improve | Behind the Scenes at Global-Roam http://blog.global-roam.com/index.php/2009/11/book-review-user-stories-applied/comment-page-1/#comment-822 Communicating Clearly – how we/I can improve | Behind the Scenes at Global-Roam Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:10:35 +0000 http://blog.global-roam.com/?p=976#comment-822 [...] particularly liked the notion in the book “User Stories Applied” that, if we run out of room on User Story Card for an explanation of the feature, then we should [...] [...] particularly liked the notion in the book “User Stories Applied” that, if we run out of room on User Story Card for an explanation of the feature, then we should [...]

]]> By: Stephen http://blog.global-roam.com/index.php/2009/11/book-review-user-stories-applied/comment-page-1/#comment-656 Stephen Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:15:18 +0000 http://blog.global-roam.com/?p=976#comment-656 The universities definitely are poor at teaching a number of skills required by successful software engineers. Just off the top of my head I will list some here: 1) Project management and coordination. 2) Working with large, complex applications with 50k-100k lines of code. 3) Bug finding and elimination in large applications. There are more but these three are so vitally important to nearly all development jobs in the real world that they stand out as the biggest problems The universities definitely are poor at teaching a number of skills required by successful software engineers. Just off the top of my head I will list some here:

1) Project management and coordination.
2) Working with large, complex applications with 50k-100k lines of code.
3) Bug finding and elimination in large applications.

There are more but these three are so vitally important to nearly all development jobs in the real world that they stand out as the biggest problems

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