On: Your developers aren’t slow

[protonfish]

I have seen huge improvements in quality and productivity by using stories plus wireframes. The first thing a UI dev does is create a quick mockup for feedback from the end user (specified in the story in the blank after "As a ____" Unfortunately implementing this can be a political struggle because it takes a lot of the decisions away from the business and the project manager and hands them to the developers and users.

[ajuc → protonfish]

My boss in previous company forced analysts to write bug reports and feature requests in the form:

"how it works now, how it should work".

This took at most a month and made life for everybody a lot better.