User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

Part I: Getting Started

In Part I, we start with a quick tour of what user stories are and how they’re used. Following that we will look in more detail at how to write user stories, how to use the system’s user types to help identify stories, how to work with people who may fill the user role when users themselves are hard to come by, and how to write tests that are used to know when a story has been successfully coded. After all that, we’ll close Part I by looking at some guidelines for good stories.

When you’re done with this section you’ll know enough to get started with identifying, writing, and testing your own stories. You’ll also be ready to look at how to estimate and plan with user stories, which will be the topic of Part II.