CS-314, Spring 2016
Design Studio 2. Agile Scrum User Stories

Pre-class work and Pre-Quiz, In-class work (Monday February 8), and Post-class work for DS2.

The design studio pre-class work includes both team and individual portions. The design studio pre-Quiz is an individual quiz.

Pre-Quiz DUE Sunday 7 February 2016, 11:55 PM

CREDIT: Pre-Quiz: 10 points, Design Studio: 10 points

Design Studio User Story: As a student in CS 314, I want to be able to write user stories so that I can split them, accurately estimate their points, decompose them into appropriate tasks with accurate time estimates, and develop acceptance criteria for both the user stories and their tasks.

Pre-work and Pre-Quiz User Stories:

As a student in CS 314, I want to understand how:

• to use the Scrum process and how user stories fit into it so that I can practice the process to be a better developer.
• to accurately size user stories so that my team can commit to a number that can be completed in one 2-week sprint.
• to decompose a small user story into tasks with accurate time estimates so that my team can get all the work done in a 2-week sprint that we committed to.

In-class activity User Stories:

As a student in CS 314, I want to practice:

• sizing user stories so that my team can commit to a number of user stories that can be completed in one 2-week sprint.
• decomposing a small user story into tasks and estimating the time it will take to do the tasks so that I and my team can get all of the 2-week sprint work done.

Post-class work User Stories:

• As a student in CS 314, I want to personally assess my learning from the pre-work and in-class activity so that I can relate it to things I already know and use it in my career.

Design Studio Pre-Class work - Do This Before Class, Quiz due Sunday night 11:55 pm

Description:

The pre-work contains background information on Scrum, Agile user stories, and tasks. These are explained in the design studio pre-work file ( DS2-PRE.pdf).

Tasks:

1. Complete the pre-class readings:

• Study the slides on Scrum and User Stories in the CS314SP2016-ScrumUserStories.pdf file.
• Read the story point estimation article: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh273055. Read through the definition of "Planning Poker". This article has a good example of relative estimation.
• View the 3:41min chalk talk video "Chalk Talk: Writing Good User Stories" from Rally at their website: https://www.rallydev.com/toolkits/user-stories-toolkit-0, Chalk Talk: Writing Good User Stories

2. Complete the pre-class preparation:

• Read and understand the split user stories and the work described in Dr. Bieman's notes for Assignment 2, in DS2-PRE.pdf.
• Think about how you will do the following and bring your ideas to class.
  • estimate story points for the split user stories
  • decompose the split user story (Split story B in DS2-PRE.pdf) into tasks and estimate their time

3. Take the Q2 Pre-UserStory Quiz, available in Canvas.

Grading:

1. You will receive an individual quiz grade for the pre-quiz.

Design Studio In-Class Activity - Work in your Team

TEAM WORK

Description:

You will be practicing sizing user stories and decomposing them into tasks, and estimating task times in the design studio in-class activity. Follow the instructions for Task 1 in DS2-InClass.pdf.

What you need to do:

1. With your team, work through Task 1, and record you work on the Result Sheet to turn in at the end of class, and keep a copy so that you can add all of your results to your Assignment 2 work.

2. Turn in your Result Sheet at the end of class.

Grading:

The team portion of your DS2 grade (5 points) will be based on your result sheet.

Design Studio Post-Class work - Do This After Class

INDIVIDUAL WORK

Post-class retrospective writing DUE Tuesday 9 February 2016, 11:55 PM

Description:

You need to write a self-learning assessment for the in-class activity. Follow the instructions for Task 2 in DS2-InClass.pdf.

What you need to do:

1. Write your assessment and submit it via Canvas. Make sure your name is included in your file or it will not be graded and you will receive a 0.

Grading:

The individual portion of your DS2 grade (5 points) will be based on how thoughtfully you have identified critical areas of learning in this design studio and created questions and answers.