From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
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Creating user stories
From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
Creating user stories
- Project requirements strive to be written in clear, direct language. It's usually when you turn this clear language into work that you realize that there's a lot of room for misinterpretation. Unfortunately it's almost impossible to predict how each person will interpret your language. Often a quick conversation is the only way to make sure that everyone knows the work. Agile projects don't use traditional project requirements. Instead the product owner maintains a set of user stories for the project. A user story is a conversation vehicle. It's a short story from the users perspective about what they find valuable in the product. A common user story format is as a user role, I want, need, can, et cetera, a goal so that reason. For a website there could be many user roles. Say you've created a user role called premium customer. Now you've attached some business value to that role. For this story you might say, as a standard customer, I want to see a list of benefits of upgrading to…
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