Writing Good User Stories
Writing Good User StoriesUser stories are probably the most popular technique to capture product functionality in an agile context. A story contains a name, a brief narrative, and acceptance criteria....
View ArticleUser Story Modelling
User Story ModellingUser stories are great at capturing product functionality from the perspective of a user or customer: Each user story describes a piece of product functionality, for instance, “As...
View ArticleEpics and Ready Stories
Epics and Ready StoriesOne of the things I love about user stories is their flexibility. A user story can be big, medium-sized, or small. This allows us to sketch a product with big stories, and then...
View ArticleNonfunctional Requirements
Nonfunctional Requirements I don’t know about you, but every time I read the word “nonfunctional”, I feel a yawn coming on, and I start to look for something else to do. While nonfunctional...
View Article5 Common User Story Mistakes
5 Common User Story MistakesUser stories are a simple, yet effective way to communicate how a user or customer employs a product. But writing user stories that help a team build great software can be...
View ArticleUser Stories are Not Enough to Create a Great User Experience
When I talk to product owners about capturing ideas and requirements for their products, the conversation often focuses on users stories. While stories are great to describe the product functionality,...
View ArticleFrom Personas to User Stories
1 Start with Personas The first step towards writing the right user stories is to understand your target users and customers. After all, user stories want to tell a story about the users using the...
View ArticleThe Definition of Ready in Scrum
Why Ready Matters The idea that the high-priority product backlog items should be “ready” or “workable” dates back to the first Scrum book published in 2002. Ready items can be pulled into the sprint...
View ArticleWhy User Stories Fail
Wrong Context As their name suggests, user stories tell a story: They describe in plain language how a customer or user employs the product. Instead of specifying every little detail, user stories...
View ArticleUser Story Reflections
Users As its name suggests, a user story describes how a user or customer uses the product–a digital product is captured from the perspective of the users. This avoids a solution-centric view where we...
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