From the course: Hybrid Project Management: Combining Agile and Predictive Methods

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Agile used in the requirements and development phases

Agile used in the requirements and development phases

- Agile teams have utilized the user-story format to capture requirements more than any other. It's a proven approach that has stood the test of time. While adopting an agile approach, one of the changes required is to decompose the project scope into requirements that are small enough to be implemented in a time box, typically two weeks long. Starting and finishing those requirements must provide value usually through feedback. The user and technical story approach is the most prevalent and the collection of these small requirements forms a product backlog. In this hybrid, the requirements capturing technique shifts from the traditional detailed declarative statement, "The system must do this and the system must do that," to the agile approach, a backlog composed of stories. The story approach captures something a customer wants so that they can get some benefit. It's written as a concise statement of value from their perspective. The customer could be external to us, such as…

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