Scrum provides us with a great framework for building our Scrum team, implementing the core agile practices and getting the inspect and adapt process started. While Scrum discusses the need for requirements, which are called the “Product Backlog”, Scrum doesn’t go into much detail about how to gather these requirements.  Our coaches  will continue on where Patrick and Michael left off in the last meeting’s “Scrum and User Experience Design: Bringing Great Design into the Agile Process” by working out the product backlog of our on-line version of Corporate Espionage.

Join us as we demonstrate how various teams communicate requirements and how this fits into the Scrum process.  We’ll also get our hands dirty as we break out into groups and write the requirements for a part of Corporate Espionage On-Line to gain experience with the techniques that were presented.

By the end of the evening you’ll have several tools that you can immediately use to flesh out even the toughest requirements.

Vladimir Drndarski is the Principal Thinker of ThotSpots, Inc, an Orange County based software consulting company that he and his partner founded in 2004.  He brings over 12 years of software development experience to designing and implementing enterprise level software.  Vladimir has developed systems for warehousing, grocery store management, in-flight entertainment systems for both commercial and private aircraft, and most is currently launching LendingLedger.com a peer to peer lending site designed to help people lending and borrowing from friends and family. Vladimir has been involved in agile development since 2000 when his group brought Extreme Programming in house to a team of 24 developers.  He has spoken to many user groups about agile development and software practices.

Luca Candela is a project manager and usability usability consultant. Luca specializes in project management, experience design, prototyping and all the techniques required to bring a succesful site to life. View his portfolio online at LuckyMethod.com

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