| As evidenced by the recent move from SAFe 4.0 to 4.5, the methodology is still evolving, and anyone who has taken one of the courses can tell you where they saw holes.
Ken
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Dr. Kenneth Laskey
MITRE Corporation, M/S H330 phone: 703-983-7934
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McLean VA 22102-7508
I too can live with any self-consistent set of definitions. I do believe, however, that the Agile community – and especially a variant as dense as SAFe – should have a quasi-standard set of self-consistent definitions for them (and several other associated terms) … me and Don Quixote! 😊 Guys-- that works OK for me, but I had in mind a slightly different idea-- A Feature is the implementation of a function needed to fulfill a Story (i.e., a set of functional requirements expressed as a scenario or use-case.) A Story is a set of functional requirements expressed as a scenario or use-case. An Epic is a description of the overall performance of an application (perhaps limited to the perspective of one type of stakeholder, e.g., a customer, a business end-user, or an administrator.) But like I say--I can live perfectly well with Rex' version.
Martin
On 1/8/2018 2:45 PM, Ken Laskey wrote: I’ll buy these. Ken Seriously crazy-making quicksand quagmire! People tend to tend think in hierarchies and try to impose hierarchies almost whenever they can. Hierarchy in this case is not necessary. However, I somehow derived a set of definitions that works for me: A Feature is a function (usually a business function, but not necessarily), such as get customer account information, add item to shopping cart, get credit authorization, get current customer account balance, confirm shopping cart contents, upload as blog article, etc. A User Story describes using a Feature or set of Features, such as checking account information on a website, making a cash withdrawal, adding a review to an article on a blog, etc. An Epic is a set or collection of related User Stories, building an online retail store, maintaining an online retail store, merging an online retail store into a whole supply company. Cheers,
Rex On 1/3/2018 9:40 AM, Ken Laskey wrote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Kenneth Laskey
MITRE Corporation, M/S H330 phone: 703-983-7934
7515 Colshire Drive fax: 703-983-7996
McLean VA 22102-7508
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