User Stories
User stories provide the business and development team with the context of the problem and potential feature. They are a major component of the Agile approach. User Stories enables the product management and development team to discuss the problem domain and explores three areas :-
Essentially,
As a <user type> I want to <do something> so that I can <derive a benefit>
Each User Story, must be :-
Ideally and as a minimum a user story should fit on a single index card for reasons of brevity and clarity. This information can then be discussed with the team and converted to a digital format or entered into a feature request database.
User stories provide the business and development team with the context of the problem and potential feature. They are a major component of the Agile approach. User Stories enables the product management and development team to discuss the problem domain and explores three areas :-
- The user's role
- The goal the user is trying to achieve
- Why the user wants to achieve it
Essentially,
As a <user type> I want to <do something> so that I can <derive a benefit>
Each User Story, must be :-
- Independent of other stories unless part of a larger original user story
- Negotiable in terms of how a user can do something to derive an outcome
- Valuable to the user and hence benefit
- Estimated in terms of outcome and benefit
- Small/short and tangible (large user stories should be fragmented into smaller user stories
- Testable and repeatable as a feature and benefit should be consistent
Ideally and as a minimum a user story should fit on a single index card for reasons of brevity and clarity. This information can then be discussed with the team and converted to a digital format or entered into a feature request database.
Alternatively, teams can use a digital version and I have include two different types of spreadsheets which can be used to collate and debate a user story. The first being almost a digital equivalent to an index card and the second being an expanded version.
user_stories_index_card_template_06-01-14.xlsx | |
File Size: | 10 kb |
File Type: | xlsx |
user_stories_new_template_06-01-14.xlsx | |
File Size: | 16 kb |
File Type: | xlsx |