Questions tagged [user-stories]
User stories are used with Agile software development methodologies as the basis for defining the functions a business system must provide, and to facilitate requirements management. It captures the 'who', 'what' and 'why' of a requirement in a simple, concise way, often limited in detail by what can be hand-written on a small paper notecard
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How to store/manage a huge amount of coder task in the backlog
What to do when the programmers from the dev team want to put their development tasks in the product backlog (such as refactor XXX, clean class XXX, ...)?
We tried and have the users stories mixed ...
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Should we finalize the user story or UI design first?
I am currently working as product owner in a firm where we follow agile methodology. I would like to discuss about a scenario faced in my daily work life.
We have started working on a project to ...
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JIRA how to better manage tasks without stories, and stories without tasks?
Is it possible to make it such that single-issues (stories without tasks) can be tracked the same way a story with one task can be tracked? At my company, stories with no tasks are put under "...
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How to visualise backlog items which must be pushed to done every day
Has anyone found a good method that doesn’t feel lame about representing activities that need to be completed every day on a personal or team kanban board.
For instance, if I wanted to read every day ...
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Should we create sub-tasks for each story by default representing all the different types of work the story will require
One of my colleagues proposed an idea to split stories by default each time we write stories for the project into sub-tasks to represent different types of work a story has.
We are using Scrum and ...
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User story/acceptance criteria for page with a lot of content
I've recently been tasked with writing user stories and acceptance criteria (GWT) and would like to ask for advice since I'm relatively new to such approach.
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Project is a web app ...
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While preparing a Developer level Document (Use Case) what should be defined in Business Validation?
We are working on a developer-level document or a Use Case document which is shared with the development team. We define Business Validation within a use case, what should be a part of that Business ...
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How can I motivate the team to take more responsibility for user stories?
My team consists of 4 team members and me as the Product Owner, filling up the backlog and proposing the next stories to be done. We currently have no Scrum Master, and we use the Kanban method.
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May I not use the users stories in Scrum?
It is more convenient for me to describe requirements in technical terms. So is it possible not to use the users stories in Scrum? Will it be Agile still?
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Thoughts on using user stories to define business/platform needs?
I'm very accustomed to user stories for end-user driven features. But if starting a project from scratch, does it make sense to treat the business owners as users and define their needs that way too? ...
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Acceptance Criteria, Given/When/Then format demote readability of user story?
I'm creating Acceptance Criteria for user stories.
Since it seems to be the main way to do it in my current company.
I feel that Given/When/Then always demote user story's readability and increase ...
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Are User Stories from Sprint Backlog assigned to individual developers?
Let's suppose the development team is planning the next Sprint. What does it technically mean that a User Story is added to the Sprint Backlog? Is it assigned to a developer or to the whole team? (If ...
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How do we refine a big User Story in Jira?
Let's suppose a Product Owner added a big User Story to Product Backlog in Jira. This User Story can't be done during a Sprint or even during several Sprints. How do we refine such a User Story in ...
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Improving a User Story with an [achievement] part the same as the [action] part
Using this User Story definition:
As an [actor], I want [action] so that [achievement]
focused on the value or result, I have my user story that reads:
As a customer, I want to see nearby stores on ...
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User stories based on the existing design
I'm currently working on a project that has already defined and approved design, and my task is to write user stories based on that design. There's one situation I keep facing and can't figure out the ...
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Does the scrum master also estimate user stories?
We recently started working with scrum on an new (large) project. I am a developer but do not take part in that project other than my role as scrum master.
I know about the software they use, but don'...
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In Agile methodologies, what happens when team completes a backlog item or user story?
I need to know that does team need some kind of approval or something from product owner or scrum master when it completes a user story. And if not, then how the team proceed with this kind of ...
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Scrum - Add Placeholder for Future Story
Practicing Scrum and Agile, our team had Sprint Planning and we sliced our features into stories. However our team was unsure about what should the "third" story do, so the ScrumMaster ...
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How can I train a team of engineers about user story points in 30 mins
Does anyone know how I can train a bunch of engineers about user story points in 30 mins.
I wanted to make it fun and interactive but I only have 30 mins.
My initial idea was to simply go over the ...
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Agile Development Practices [closed]
How do I resolve an unidentified issue affecting customer experience when a sprint has already commenced without impacting the sprint backlog? For example, I am currently in a sprint and a serious ...
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Should I be using user stories as my documentation?
I've just inherited a project and I'm forming a new team.
How it's been currently done is there is a list of user stories - these user stories have lots of tasks attached to them that the dev picks up....
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Agile. Release planning. Why do I need stories instead of themes/epics
I'm reading Mike Cohn's book about Agile estimation. At the same time I have a release planning in couple of days.
It's going to be 6 months (12 sprints release). We have the ideas about what needs ...
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How should we hand-off and ticket UI designs to the devs to ensure the developed design matches the provided UI mockups, while still being agile?
How should we hand-off and ticket UI designs to the devs to ensure the developed design matches the provided UI mockups, while still being agile?
Note: we're definitely not fully agile, but we're ...
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Storyboarding and Product Owner's role
If I understand this through my past 5-6 years of Agile Scrum:
Product Owner is responsible for a regulated Product Backlog, and delivering user stories to businesses.
To realise the product vision, ...
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What can the team do to prevent stories from completing until the last day of the sprint?
I've read that ideally the team is completing stories throughout the sprint and that shows gradual progression on the burndown chart. My team can only really complete stories at the very end of the ...
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What is smaller than a user story but bigger than a task?
We have a "heavy" story that cannot be decomposed into smaller stories. It will span several sprints.
We can decompose the story into tasks all right, but tasks seem to be abstractions that are only ...
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"View content"-type user story/acceptance criteria
I'm relatively new to the acceptance criteria in GWT format, and I'm struggling with writing them for the features that involve reviewing content. For instance: the user is on the home page of e-...
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Should there be testing-only user stories?
We estimate stories as 1, 2, 4, 6, or 8 points. Consider a story with less development work but huge testing effort. Let's say we estimate that story as 8 points.
We see the following options:
Let ...
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User story decomposition into frontend and backend
Let's consider the following and somewhat prototypical user story in one's backlog:
As a user I want to be able to login to the application so that I can do all sorts of private stuff
Now, this is ...
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Agile Storyboarding impact on a Business Quarter
a) We have total 6 Sprints constituting a business quarter.
b) We are releasing every 2 Sprints (or earlier) by means of CI/CD.
c) We have to deliver a new feature in the next quarter for which we ...
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Azure DevOps - how to know a Resolved work item is actviely being tested (vs. in the queue)
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Does Azure DevOps have a recommended built in way of marking Resolved Work Items as being actively tested as opposed of being in the queue for testing?
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How can I create an Epic based on requirements following best practices?
I am trying to learn Kanban and Scrum and for that, I have a sample mobile app for the gym in mind with the following ideas:
User should be able to create a workout plan.
User should be able to ...
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How to found old information in Done issue?
I work in a company and we use TargetProcess (a Jira fork) as Project Management to manage our work in Agile style (Scrum).
It works quite well. We write issues ("Epic", "Feature", "User Story" and "...
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How to manage story points when several developers work on 1 story?
My team consists of 2 backend devs, 1 front end dev and designer.
Lets pretend we have next user story:
As a user I want to sign-in/sign-out to use the system
Designer says that it is equal to 2 ...
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Epics and Story Points
If we have a User Story that is determined to be an Epic, and we vertically slice the functionality into its logical parts and estimate the resulting User Stories and Tasks, is it best practice to ...
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User Story for Specific Backend Services
How do you create a user story for tasks like implementing hashing Sha256 on passwords or modify column in a table? Let us consider the
As a ________, I want to be able to _________, so that ...
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Jira Ticket best practices
I've been with two very different companies that both use JIRA Tickets to track work done. The first was corporate company with some high standards when it comes to defining Tickets in Jira, the ...
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Split story into a separate dev and qa stories in a sprint
One of the Scrum's ideas is to have a deliverable ready after the sprint's end. Development and testing should be completed on a story within the sprint, so that it could be released/deployed.
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How to use Story Points, if User Stories are completely different?
Story Points (SP) is a good measurement, that allows estimating User Stories.
SP (in my understanding, it's an important note) is convenient because it is relative and not related with time. All ...
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User Story Title
When creating a user story work item in a tool like GitHub or, Azure DevOps, Should the “As a user, I want” phrase be used for the title, or should it be placed in the description?
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How to follow INVEST principle when starting a new app from scratch
I am trying to start a new app and want to follow scrum. We are using pivotal tracker, and we had added many stories and estimated them. We tried breaking stories to the smallest possible value ...
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How to add new state to user story azure devops
When I try to add new completed state to user story or task in inherited process of my azure devops project, I get the following error :
VS403093: Team Services currently does not support changes ...
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How can we prevent business value from being dependent on multiple user stories in Scrum?
Our dev team keeps finding ourselves in a scenario where we have multiple stories, none of which actually provide usable value by themselves. In order to deliver any real world value, we need to ...
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How to split stories depending on APIs?
Let's take the below user story as an example to understand the whole scenario better:
As a user, I should be able to contact a dealer to test-drive a car.
The scope of the story is that the user ...
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Should all required user story assets be available before sizing a story or starting the sprint?
I am a developer. Sometimes we have stories which will require some sort of asset that is not in the control of the dev team. A common example would be that the story calls for a new piece of UI to be ...
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Blocked due to a dependency [closed]
If a feature to be developed in a sprint is blocked due to a dependency, how do you handle it as a PO?
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Impact mapping on a new project
I have read about a new technique for Agile Development named "Impact Mapping", developed by Gojko Adzic:
The main idea behind it is building a map of the business goals behind the project (the why), ...
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Adding n-number of due date fields and descriptions to Epics and Stories
In an existing project, the team is attaching tasks directly to Epics. I would like to introduce stories to the workflow and n-number of key dates to either the Epics or features.
For this, I would ...
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Should I leave building the database for the end?
Let's suppose that, as a PO, I have a mini-project with my team.
The project consists of displaying messages and announcements on big shared screen.
The admin can write messages on a page on his ...
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Does the Kanban require teams to work vertically sliced user stories or can we use small technical tasks
I am just revising Anderson's Kanban book where he discusses 'input types' and it doesn't seem like he prescribes whether the team work with vertically sliced user stories - something which has been a ...
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