user stories
How to Split User Stories
George Dinwiddie proposes a list of material that should help you in the task of splitting user stories used to manage requirements in Agile approaches. In his own handout, he explains the difference between stories in the backlog that are often called features or epics and stories selected for development that should generally be small […]
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User Stories Acceptance Criteria
In Scrum user stories are the starting point of a conversation. This articles discusses the challenge for the Product Owner to provide acceptance criteria to help the Scrum team understand user stories. The author explains that acceptance criteria need not constitute an exhaustive list, but they should be sufficient to move forward. Acceptance criteria are […]
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Using Use Cases or User Stories in Scrum
This blog post defines the concept of use cases and user stories and discusses how and when they should be used in an Agile software development project. User stories are different from use cases because they are centred on the result and the benefit of the thing you’re describing, whereas use cases are more granular. […]
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User Stories Key Dimensions
This article discusses the three dimensions of user stories: the backlog order, the complexity (or effort) and the business value. These dimensions are flexible until the sprint commitment, but right before it, you should have estimated the complexity and the business value for the top of the product backlog, which means that the product backlog […]
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Building the Right Scope
In this article from chapter 4 of Specification by Example, author Gojko Adzic explains how to work together with business users to come up with the right stories and that the key idea to achieve that is not to start with user stories but with business goals and derive the scope from that.
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Agile Software Requirements by Dean Leffingwell
The title of one of the initial chapters of the book “Agile Software Requirements” by Dean Leffingwell is “The Big Picture of Agile Requirements”. This emphasizes that agile requirements are more than user stories on a small card. In this book, Dean Leffingwell presents the big picture of agile requirements, together with the small details that […]
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