Do this and you will be more productive with your delivery

Sajitha Pathirana
3 min readAug 3, 2023

As a team, to achieve sprint goals, the primary focus should be to keep the stories moving forward in the board. However, before moving a story to the next phase, there are tasks to be completed in each phase.

For an instance, before moving a story to In Progress, you need to make sure the requirements are well defined and clear to proceed. Here in this article, let’s look at in detail what tasks we need to concentrate and track to deliver a user story with success.

Keep in mind there are numerous ways followed in the industry and what we will be discussing here is one we have been following over the years in my organisation to deliver stories successfully.

When the story has been created and requirements are specified, grooming will be done, and story points are allocated and added to the active sprint during the planning.

Now it’s in the hands of the technical team to deliver and here comes the challenge for everyone to keep track of what has been done under each story and what’s left to be done.

How do we track the progress of the story?

The best way is to identify the generic sub tasks needed to be employed in a user story to get it done. These generic tasks can be defined and documented…

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Sajitha Pathirana

A Test automation enthusiast, passionate to help the teams to enhance their testing journey with his decade of experience in the field.