From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
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Writing effective stories
From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
Writing effective stories
- User stories are a great way to have conversations between developers and the product owner. It's usually when you start having these conversations that you realize that your user stories are not very good, but that's okay. The real challenge will be figuring out just why your user stories are so bad. Thankfully, there's a good way to figure out the challenges with your user stories. You can use the acronym INVEST. This is a list of common challenges that was created by Bill Wake to think about when you're creating your user stories. The I stands for independent. It's important to remember that independent doesn't mean your stories are functionally independent. It means that they are independently valued. Let's say that you had a mobile application that identified a bird when you took its picture. The product owner could create two stories. One story to return the list of identified birds, and another to sort the list for likely to unlikely matches. These two stories are…
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