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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....

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User 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...

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Epics 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...

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Nonfunctional 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...

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5 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...

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User 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,...

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From 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...

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The 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...

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Why 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...

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User 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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