Category: jira

How issue tracking systems fit agile development?

July 17, 2008 by pbielicki

Let's assume you work in an agile team and follow the Scrum framework. Let's also assume that you collect and track requirements "using" user stories. Mike Cohn in his brilliant book User Stories Applied somehow discourages from putting user stories into "digital tracker". In his opinion the best place for user story (most probably yellow or green sticker) is cork- or whiteboard.

As far user stories are concerned I totally agree - but what about programming tasks, bugs and other ah-hoc "low-level" developer's communication? How can small sticker with information like this As a user I want to ... [in order to ...] help itself developers deliver the user story to the customer?

Isn't some tool help needed here?