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Re: All About Agile: Roles during release planning

Phlip <phlip2...@gmail.com>

brupm wrote:
> Our current plan is to start the meeting with features discovery, then
> jump into roles discovery as a team.
> We plan to allow the team members to write out roles on index cards
> and we can then pick the common ones.

> My question is, how do I make sure we are not missing important roles?
> Should I be considering personas as well, such as a user who is over
> 25? Or should it be limited to a user, or an admin or a visitor?

> The second question I have is that it that it seams like roles need to
> be extracted based on the features but the stories are what seems to
> bring the roles out. In other words, a feature like "Implement user
> search" does not seem to aid role discovery as much as a story... " As
> some role need to be able to edit find users so that I can edit their
> accounts".

This is Big Requirements Up Front. You need to do all that stuff over time,
mixed in with actually cutting code and building releases.

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   Phlip