How to value a story

Agenda:
18:30 Arrival, drinks (provided by Humand Talent) and networking
18:45 Workshop starts (1h long)
20:30 Close

How to value a story:

Business value, business value, business value.

We have it drummed into us: order work by business value, "do the most valuable stuff first." But how many of us put a value on the work we are doing? How many of us attach business value to stories? Why not? Because its damn difficult. Far easier to use effort cost estimates (even if they are unreliable.)

In this fun interactive session Allan Kelly will demonstrate how to put a value on stories in a backlog while at the same time uncovering new requirements, elaborating specifications and valuable opportunities.

About Allan Kelly:

Allan Kelly still considers himself a software engineer—even if nobody pays him to code any more. Deciding what to build, understanding customer needs, designing the software, and organizing the processes are all part of software engineering to him.

He helps companies and teams undertake software engineering using agile techniques working as a consultant, coach, or manager. Most of his clients are small innovative companies few people have heard of. His better known clients include Virgin Atlantic, Qualcomm, The Bank of England, Reed Elsevier, and Swift.

Allan has pioneered techniques such as Value Poker, Time-Value Profiles and Retrospective Dialogue Sheets. He is the author of the perennial essay "Dear Customer, the Truth about IT" and a number of earlier books including Continuous Digital, A Little Book of Requirements and User Stories, Xanpan, and Business Patterns for Software Developers.

Agile Oxford is organised by David Michel, Mike Harris & Humand Talent Solutions.