Monday, September 20, 2010

 

Notes: How to gather Agile Requirements with User Stories? Why Use them? How to write them?

Following are just some rough notes taken while watching Mike Cohn’s ‘User Stories for Agile Requirements’ talk at NDC2010 conference, I am posting them here hoping that it will help you, for a more in-depth look at user stories I recommend watching Mike’s presentation.


What is a User story?

Short simple statement told from the perspective of the user.

Why use them?

User stories are a way to capture user requirement

How does it look like?

User Story Template

As-a (some user)

I want/I need (something)

So that (some reason)

Samples

As a user, I want to reserve a hotel room

As a user, I want to cancel a reservation

As a vacation traveler, I want to see photos of the hotels

As a frequent flyer, I want to  rebook a past trip so that I save time booking trips I take often

Balance between developer division and business is important

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Two ways to write User stories

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Right user stories on a card, right story details behind the card

these become tests, high level tests (don't use 'tests' with product owner)

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Or

Take a user story and break it down

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Or use both

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Small user stories are on the top,medium below and large ones at the bottom

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Take the medium user stories, break them up and bring them to the Sprint/Iteration, backlog gets empty every few weeks, break epic stories and make smaller ones

Epic is a large user story

Theme is a collection of related user stories

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Take the bigger story and break it down

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Replace document with discussion, if requirements are only documented and not discussed most likely user is going to get what is written, not what they wanted.

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Examples


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User stories are used to pull real information from the product owner.

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Comments:
Nice post - did a project with Agile last year but it only made sense now what the purpose of it was - balancing business and tech. Two thumbs up!
 
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