In the summer of 2008 when I first walked into the tiny apartment over Spitalfields market in London where Songkick was located, I was brimming with excitement.

My previous team at the BBC had often struggled with user stories: some of them turned out to be so big, they were more like small projects. We would thrash, sometimes for weeks, going back and forth between testing and development to finally get them done. The product's release kept slipping back, eroding the trust of our stakeholders.

This time, I was determined that things would be different.

The Songkick team had an incredibly collaborative dynamic between product and engineering. We evolved a process of breaking down our work collaboratively, using concrete examples, that allowed us to be laser-focused with our engineering effort.

Our stories became small enough that we consistently built and shipped them to production in 2-3 days, Eventually, this consistency enabled us to do away with estimates entirely, with the entire team focused on one or two business KPIs as feedback.

The incredible agility of this team is documented in Gojko Adzic's book Specification by Example, and that experience was the basis for The Cucumber Book.

But this course isn't just for teams who use Cucumber. Anyone using Scrum or Kanban or SAFe will benefit from the simple, practical methods we'll teach you in this course.

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