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 write a summary for a user story?
I'm working hard on user stories and it is paying off, but something itches.
We use Jira, but the problem is that from above the backlog seems clumsy.
We need to write summary for user story so that ...
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What to do with unexpectedly blocked story in scrum?
We have a low-pointed story which was dev-complete but, during testing, revealed a problem. In investigating the problem it was discovered that an external party will be required to deliver a fix. The ...
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Use Case: Postcondition vs Expected Outcome
Is Expected Outcome interchangeable with Postcondition depending on your use case structure?
Should Expected Outcome and Postcondition be explicitly differentiated from each other?
Say I have a ...
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How to split or manage a PBI/User Story in multiple sprints for different task types
We're struggling to break Product Backlog Items (PBIs)/User Stories into Sprint-sized chunks as we have multiple steps that need to be completed in a linear fashion.
Each release goes through ...
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How will handle multiple users in a user story
I am trying to understand the role of multiple users in a user story. There is a chance that a particular feature will behave differently depends on the role of users.
Let me try to clarify the ...
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Can we have zero point stories?
Our Agile/Scrum team follows the Fibonacci sequence for story point estimation. However, it is not clear whether we should have any zero point stories at all. Even though a story may have minimal ...
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Should I estimate repeating tasks (besides Stories and Bugs)?
Besides User Stories and Bugs (no estimation) we have some repeating Tasks in our sprint, which have not much insecurity and a clear scope. For example such a task is "releasing our plugin" (building, ...
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should we repeat the details in user story of similar feature?
I am very new to the agile software development and trying to understand the size rule to be followed when writing a valuable user stories
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I am currently involved in a portfolio data import ...
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How will handle the user story as part of change request ?
We have implemented a feature as per the discussion with product manager. But there is a requirement change from the customer. So how will handle this request ?
For example : I have created a user ...
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Can I break down a vertical story into horizontal tasks?
My team and I are implementing Scrum in our project. We are at the phase of dividing user stories into tasks to assign to each developer.
I understand the concept of Slicing the Cake where a user ...
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Agile "user story" for a user-less project
Disclaimer: I'm a total agile newbee.
As a project manager for a pilot agile project, I am trying to create a rough sketch of my project using agile methodologies, but somehow I am not sure how to do ...
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How to break down an 8 point story into smaller stories in Scrum?
My team and I are struggling with breaking down a user story that we have estimated to be 8 points.
The user story is :
"A user can sign up to the app using a registration form so that he is
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Could the Product Owner be a user of a user story in Scrum?
We have the most of our PBI in user story format:
As a [user], I need [requirement], so that [reason].
I need to write some requirements affecting directly to the product but not exactly to any user,...
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Could stories be always independent?
I have one user story that is dependent on a technical story:
User story: A user can add a product from the database to his profile
Technical story: Products need to be entered in the database by ...
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Is it OK for a Scrum Master to allow a developer to work on a story not prioritized by the Product Owner, if it is on own time?
Here is the story (no pun intended):
The Product Owner had a fairly common feature prioritized in the second sprint.
It was estimated with low story points.
The story was completed and in testing the ...
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Should we limit who can submit stories in Scrum?
A few of the managers at my company have decided that the stack of stories is too high, so they're going to truncate the backlog and the number of people who can write stories.
The goal being, ...
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How to use historical cycle time to forecast project completion
I have been inspired by Daniel Vacanti's talk (link) about using cycle time to forecast project completion.
So I collected the following user stories metric in the course of four sprints:
Average ...
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Should I assign user stories per team or per team member?
Given:
A team of 1 Backend Developer, 2 Front End Developers.
Definition of Done
US acceptance criteria have to be met
All subtasks in terms of the user story should be completed
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Best measurable units for non cross-functional team estimation
I have a new development team and I want to use Story Points for high-level estimation.
But I have two problems:
My new team is not cross-functional (we are trying to solve this, but this is a slow ...
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Is creating a task to write many stories appropriate?
At my company, we often have meetings where we brainstorm / plan for next steps for our projects. After the meetings, I feel like I have a bunch of stories to write, and creating thorough and ...
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Should a technical person take part of the user stories prioritization process?
As a Tech Lead within a "Scrum" team, I am annoying regarding some laid rules.
It is established that only Product Owner, Business Analyst and Scrum Master (and eventually Product Manager) take part ...
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Use cases for read-only screen
I'm looking into use cases and user stories topics, and I have difficulties to properly define those for a project.
Although it's quick and straightforward on user goals such as 'perform this', '...
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What Jira role is required so as to have access to Jira import
I am a novice Jira user, part of a pilot project where none of us have notable experience. We are using hosted Jira. The site administrator has made me administrator of a couple of projects. Now I'd ...
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What is the best way to link the Business Cases to the user stories in Scrum?
I am Product Owner of a Scrum Team which has to develop features for multiple business units. All these features are translated in user stories. Of course, some features are developed for multiple ...
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Is it useful to require a priority justification in scrum user stories?
Not to get too meta, but I was just about to write up a story to add "require priority justification when changed" to our company's Scrum software. And I was thinking, as a Scrummaster, that's not one ...
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Sizing user stories that need external input
Sometimes, when sizing user stories, the team says "but in order to do this, we need to ask this guy, and we don't know how long it will take for them to answer", or "we need to raise a ticket to (A) ...
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How do you handle user stories that become obsolete/irrelevant?
We have a few user stories that, in the process of our work, have become irrelevant. E.g., in order to enable customers to xx, we need to yy so as to. But, then it turned out that there was another ...
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How many user stories per project?
So in an interview recently I had a company ask me to estimate how many user stories my team used per project on average. I had no idea how to answer this. Is there an average out there or an answer? ...
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How can I split user stories about money transfers?
I'm a beginner and looking for a best way to create user stories for my project and I need an advice. It's about a money transfer project where I have to create a transfer flow: Configure Transfer, ...
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Should user stories be estimated by efforts or by value it added?
I read this in an answer on SoftwareEngineering.se:
Don't forget to distinguish between size and complexity in your estimating. You should estimate on size only, not complexity or difficulty. For ...
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How to apply the 'I' of INVEST in UI based development
As per the 'I'**NVEST philosophy, user stories should be
Independent as it allows for true prioritization of each and every story. When dependencies come into play it may not be possible to ...
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Vertical slices with split disciplines
We have a DevOps team which includes a BA, .NET developers and SAP developers. The .NET and SAP developers can and will only work on their particular discipline.
Some of our stories involve only .NET ...
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Should we break each smallest possible thing as a separate story?
We have a requirement where we need to analyze all the analytics placed on our website. We have total 4 pages on our website where we need to do this.
The story is simple:
As a developer, I want to ...
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Splitting up user stories that are enhancements that may destroy other functionality?
We are implementing an epic. While refining this epic, we discovered that a lot of our current functionality will be impacted.
I understand that when splitting up user stories, we should vertically ...
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Convincing my team that we need to split tasks by feature, not by work type
I'm in an agile team, with some developers, a designer and a ux guy. Sometimes we split some user stories into tasks when we think they are too big.
When doing this, I've always read that we should ...
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Should I have user stories dealing with the case where user is not authenticated?
In my software, a lot of services expect user to be authenticated before performing.
In positive scenarios, I have this kind of context:
Given I am authenticated
When I create meeting X
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User story for a requirement which generates files and sends to external system
Am new to Agile and need some help in identifies user stories for a given feature. The feature is "application should generate a delimiter space file which the fields given in the field specification ...
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Define actor/role in user stories
The problem: there's a shop which also sells its products online. A client must be logged in in order to buy online, but first he must be registered by a salesman on the shop.
My question is whether ...
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How to write implementing HTTPS as a user story?
The title sums the question up pretty well. How do you do that? Should you even make implementing HTTPS a user story?
I thought of:
"As a page visitor I want all communication with the service to be ...
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avoiding long running branches on big stories
I'm trying to solve following problem we have in our company:
We are trying to follow SCRUM
We are using git-flow-like branching model.
When we encounter bigger story that takes 2,3 sprints it's not ...
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How do I facilitate an effective planning meeting with a remote team?
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I am a scrum master for a team consisting of a PO, team lead and 3 developers. The team lead and 3 developers are off-shore in a totally different timezone. The PO is in the same office as ...
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Stories added after commitment
I'm trying to understand the following problem: within a SAFe framework a development team adds user stories after commitment, even though that commitment has not been met. The justification is that ...
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Should common functionalities be repeated as very similar stories within each context they're needed?
Let's say for a system, there are several stories that would be repeating all throughout but in different contexts.
E.g. Search
"As a [insert role], I want to search through a data list so that I ...
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Should a user journey be a part of a BDD story?
I am writing a template story document and want to include as many elements as will make for useful, generic stories. Currently, this includes:
Story number
Points estimate (fibonacci)
State (to do, ...
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How to handle unfinished user stories? [duplicate]
We are a small startup company with 2-3 project running simultaneously by 3 developers and 1 QA guy. We use Scrum and we encountered difficulties while we had a sprint with a user story, as small as ...
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How to manage very small, easy tasks in Agile?
Let's say you have a bug on your website. Your developer needs to fix some CSS or something. He estimates it will take him one minute to fix.
What is the best way to manage these kinds of tasks? Do ...
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How to get an Epic span multiple sprints?
While setting up my Jira's project, I struggle to make an Epic span multiple sprints.
In other words, I expect an Epic (a complete feature) to be associated to multiple sprints.
The idea is that I ...
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Is "Replicate X visual feature from Y app" a valid acceptance criterion
Assume there is a graphically intensive visual feature in app X. It includes dimming out some part of the screen at some point in the program.
The story revolves around implementing a similar feature ...
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Could my sprint unit be a scenario instead of a feature? (Gherkin terms)
My team's Business Analyst and I have written some Gherkin files describing user stories of our new project.
As usual, a Gherkin file is composed of one feature, itself detailed through one or ...
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Splitting user stories
I'm trying to figure out a way to split user stories in a way that we can incrementally create value upon completing them at the end of the Sprint. I'm using Mike Cohn's book, User Stories Applied as ...
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