userstories
Click here to view the complete list of archived articles This article was originally published in the Summer 2008 issue of Methods & Tools Acceptance TDD Explained Lasse Koskela
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All About Agile: How To Implement Scrum In 10 Easy Steps
When I first encountered agile development, I found it hard to understand. Okay, I might not be the brightest person you’ve ever met! But I’m not stupid either, I think :-) There’s a myriad of different approaches, principles, methods and terms, all of which are characterised as ‘Agile’. And from my perspective, all this ‘noise’ makes agile software development sound far harder, far more scientific, and far more confusing than it really needs to be. For this reason, I favour the Scrum agile methodology.
Introduction to User Stories
1. Introduction to User Stories A good way to think about a user story is that it is a reminder to have a conversation with your customer (in XP, project stakeholders are called customers), which is another way to say it's a reminder to do some just-in-time analysis.Over the last few weeks, I’ve written alot about writing good User Stories – you can see them all here: User Stories . User Stories are a simple way of capturing user requirements throughout a project – an alternative to writing lengthy requirements specifications all up-front. As a guide for people writing User Stories, they can follow this basic construct: As a [user role], I want to [goal], so I can [reason].
Agile Software Development: Writing Good User Stories
Many development shops have opted to writing user stories over traditional feature/requirement documents; however, almost all of them struggle when writing their first batch of user stories . This is not at all uncommon, just like riding a bike, it does take a little bit of practice (but once you get it – you get it). Writing user stories is dead simple if you follow these simple steps:
The Easy Way to Writing Good User Stories
Posted by Jay Fields on Jun 30, 2008 Sections Process & Practices , Architecture & Design