It's Feature Time! Making Vision Actionable
User Stories and Epics are inadequate to capture and express critical elements of product design. User Stories are fine grained and atomic – remember they are “implementable” within a single Sprint. Epic Stories tend to be semantic free containers of Stories. Creating sophisticated applications with rich application interfaces requires pre-production activities to validate Epic and User Stories with product design considerations such as usability and architecture. We experienced this on our latest project. Ironically, this was while building an Agile On Demand solution for work management for teams (and teams of teams) using agile methods to create software! The team had been Sprinting together for quite some time. Probably in the neighborhood of 15 or more 3 week Sprints that included 3 releases to production of a SaaS product. As we approached the completion of the third release, we started getting pretty clear feedback from some team me...