Chapter 4

Authoring Better User Stories

How do agile’s user stories streamline project requirements gathering?

What are the qualities of a good user story?

What techniques can be employed when our team is struggling to write effective user stories?

The agile collaboration model presented in the last three chapters urges software development teams to forego massive to-be system specifications. It directs them instead to guide their projects’ design and development with a collection of simple artifacts called user stories. Like many components of Scrum, the idea of user stories is simple, but not always easy to apply. Understanding their fundamentals and a collection of techniques for honing their accuracy will help teams prepare more effective ...

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