User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

Chapter 18. The Stories

To generate the initial list of stories, the team decides to convene a story writing workshop where they will dedicate an hour or two to writing as many stories as they can. During a story writing workshop, one approach is to just write stories in any order regardless of which role or persona may act in the story. An alternative approach is to start with a specific user role or persona and write all the stories the team can think of before moving onto the next role or persona. The results should be the same with either approach. In this case the team discusses it and chooses to work through each role and persona.

Stories for Teresa

The team decides to start with Teresa, a persona identified in the previous chapter, since ...