User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

Foreword

How do you decide what a software system is supposed to do? And then, how do you communicate that decision between the various people affected? This book takes on this complicated problem. The problem is difficult because each participant has different needs. Project managers want to track progress. Programmers want to implement the system. Product managers want flexibility. Testers want to measure. Users want a useful system. Creating productive conflict between these perspectives, coming to a single collective decision everyone can support, and maintaining that balance for months or years are all difficult problems.

The solution Mike Cohn explores in this book, User Stories Applied, is superficially the same as previous attempts to ...