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How does design work relate to Tracker?
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There are no design stories.
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There are no development stories.
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Stories represent work that yields business /
user value.
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Design work generates and defines stories.
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Development work consumes and
eliminates stories.
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Design is making decisions
• Researching in support of decisions
• Thinking through many potential decisions
• Getting stakeholders to agree on decisions
• Making decisions explicit enough to be built
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All development work is represented in
Tracker.
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Not all design work is represented in Tracker.
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How does design improve velocity?
• Design work unblocks development work.
• Design work should answer questions about ‘how should this work’ so the developer doesn’t have to ask them.
• Design work yields assets, so the developer doesn’t have to make or find them.
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Design in the lifecycle of a story
• Creation
• Definition
• Development
• Acceptance / Rejection
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Story creation
• Anyone can create a story
• Design work yields new stories
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Story definition
• Design work yields definition for stories
• Responsibility for definition shared between designer and PM
• Developers can define stories too, but it’s not a primary responsibility
• Product owner should sign-off each story definition before developer starts it
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Story development
• Development work turns stories into working software
• In-flight design tune-ups reduce rejections Rejections have moral, time, overhead cost
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Story acceptance
• Rejecting stories based on DEFINED design is legitimate. (Tune-up to preempt this)
• Any increases in scope due to tune-ups or rejections should become a new story—no matter how small!
• Making a designer/PM prioritize a tweak is sometimes enough to push it off.
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