June 9, 2020
My User Stories Aren’t Long Enough… Except When They Are Too Long
Product managers/owners often hear from our software development team that all of our user stories are too short, insufficient, skimpy,…
Tag: user stories
January 5, 2015
Getting Well Written Requirements from Business Analysts
A lot has been said and written about user stories and their role in an agile context. But what are…
June 10, 2014
The A.A.R.T. of Writing User Stories
Current user stories used to manage Agile requirements can be improved by clearly identifying, linking, and tracking Actors, Action, Results,…
January 14, 2014
User Stories for Both Requirements and Testing
User stories are a technique taken from the agile development playbook that can easily be applied in traditional systems development…
July 15, 2013
From Value to Solutions in Agile
Agile uses mostly user stories to capture requirements. In his blog post, Jean-Jacques Dubray explains that there is a problem…
July 11, 2013
The User Stories Iceberg
This short video presents the Mike Cohn’s Iceberg Analogy for User stories. It discusses User Stories and the Backlog, how…
June 27, 2013
User Stories Are Not Requirements
The common wisdom is that Agile register requirements using the user stories format: “”As a , I want <goal/desire> so…
May 7, 2013
Describe User Interaction with Scenarios and Storyboards
A user story is a tool to describe the product functionality, but it is less useful suited to describe in…
February 13, 2013
Creating a User Story Map
A user story map is a technique created by Jeff Patton where you arranges you user stories into a useful…
December 12, 2012
User Stories That Are Too Big
In this blog post, Jeffrey Davidson discusses the fact that a common issue for Scrum teams is that their user…