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How to write user stories for a framework API

I need help understanding what user stories should look like for a web testing framework we are building for our organization’s QA department. We are trying to run this project using Scrum.

How can architects work with self-organizing Scrum teams?

An organization with a number of agile Scrum teams also has a small group of people appointed as “enterprise architects”. The EA group acts as control and gatekeeper for quality and adherence to decisions. This leads to overlaps between the team decision and EA decisions.

Shared QA responsibilities on an Agile team

For many years our IT development group subscribed to the waterfall software development methodology with segregated pods of programmers specializing in database development, logic layer and presentation layer development. Of course we also had a small quality assurance group which handled all testing responsibilities. Requirements, tasks and bugs were handed back and forth electronically, very little conversation took place, and the process ground painfully on.

Scrum Master in the organization

I’m wondering how to set up the organization with Scrum Masters. I would prefer to see real examples of where the scrum masters are located in the organization’s hierarchy and how report-to / chain-of-command issues are handled.