Job stories

- Many teams use user stories to represent backlog items. … Job stories is another technique that can be used … to represent backlog items. … A job story is a technique to express backlog items, … that's similar to a user story, … but with a lens towards the user motivation … and more context about the user situation. … A job story is formatted like this, … to use job stories, Chris our Agile BA, … starts with a when statement, … and the when statement represents a situation. … Next, is an I want to statement, … and this represents the motivation of the user, … and last, the so that statement … that points to the expected outcome. … Now, let's compare job stories to user stories … to help those already familiar with user stories … understand the difference. … They can be easily confused. … Here's a user story example. … As a learner, I want to create a playlist … so that I can have a queue of learning videos … to watch when I have time to learn. … Now, let's turn this into a job story. …