V-Base Development Blog

i may soon be getting a new backlog management tool – can’t tell you how excited i am about this, saddo that i am.

for those of you who don’t know what i’m on about, one of my main responsibilities as “product owner” is to act as owner/custodian of the v-base “product backlog” – a looooong list of all the potential new features or changes that could be built into v-base at any point. These requirements are in the form of “user stories”, which follow a common 3-part format:

1. As a… (who wants this)
2. I would like… (what they want)
3. So that… (why they want it)

e.g. if someone decides that it might be nice for v-base to be able to communicate directly with the drinks machine in the kitchen, so that users can order cups of tea from within v-base itself, they would create a new user story, something along the lines of:

As a daily user of V-Base

I would like to be able to order a cup of tea from within the V-Base application and have it automatically dispensed by the drinks machine in the kitchen

So that I can reduce the time I spend away from V-Base by having my drink already waiting for me when by the time I reach the kitchen

so, (more…)