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 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.
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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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what to do with out of scope tickets in JIRA
I've created a number of tickets (user stories) and added them to the backlog, however on review the stories are now deemed out of scope.
What is the best practice for handling these? Should they be ...
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How to split Requirement into Userstories
My team is currently working on defining user stories with the product owner.
He supplied us with a story that is on one hand quite complex, on the other hand he says, that no part of it is ...
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What to do when running into a potential rabbit hole in a story?
Say I have a team member who is working on a story. While working on that story, s/he runs into an issue that could or could not be crucial to the completion of that original story.
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User Story(ies) for multi-step user sign-up
I'm just starting to use Scrum with a new web project and I'm having some difficulties crafting my Product Backlog.
I have a initial user story along the lines of :
As a new user I want to sign-up ...
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How to deal with a Product Owner who refuses to write user stories?
I am currently playing a scrum master role in the project. Because the PO refuses to write user stories - I have to do it myself, but this flow has led to specification breakdown and scope creep many ...
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When should I use user stories and when just tasks?
I'm not sure if it makes sense to always write user stories, even for issues like refactor or backup.
In your opinion in which of the following situations, it's better to write user stories than ...
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Improve performance of feature X - should that be a new user story or something else?
We have implemented and closed user story X but found out later that the implementation is too slow and we need to improve performance. I think it was a mistake not to have acceptance criteria for ...
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How do I get client to participate in acceptance testing?
We have a weak spot in our flow. Whenever the time for acceptance testing comes, our client simply doesn't do it in time. There are 50 user stories in Jira waiting to be reviewed by him. The number is ...
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Organizing testing in a Scrum(ish) development project
First: I'm trying this forum, even though this is more a test management than project management question. The test/QA exchange seems to be focused on technical, hands-on test questions and issues.
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User Interface Requirements in User Stories
I'm not sure whether this should be on the ux.stackexchange forum or on here.
As part of a Uni project, the client has given us a brief of mandatory and optional features, from which we have to ...
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Do user stories mean rework? How much is ok?
We are currently setting up a scrum team to implement a product selling application. The product itself is quite complex (an insurance product) which comes in many facets, basically some mandatory and ...
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How to describe the business entities in Scrum?
Every (software) project comes with business entities: "Article" and "Category" for a blog, "Product", "Customer" and "Invoice" for a shop, etc.
These business entities are part of many user-...
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Jira Sprint Structure for Software Team
As I see it, we have three levels:
Epic - Broad view of what would be nice to do. (Usually more then a Sprint)
Let pay for our service with credit cards
Story - More defined and structured view. (...
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Do we create application-level stories?
Quoting an example.
If I have a user story which says:
As an administrator I should be able to query all users (both active and inactive) from my database when in my master configuration (Admin ...
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User stories vs Functional specifications
What is the main difference between user stories and functional specifications (other than the format they are in)? When should I use user stories and when specifications. Do they go hand in hand with ...
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When making technically minor changes, should i create a new user story or update an existing (closed) story?
I am working with a team that is maintaining case management software. We are suffering from drift between different specifications, agile artefacts, implementations and understandings. I would like ...
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Should I specify user story acceptance criteria in Given/When/Then format or checklists?
As far as I understand Given/When/Then format of acceptance criteria is used when the project is going to follow BDD (Behavior Driven Development). Thus, the acceptance criteria will be used for the ...
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Defect Found in Previous Iteration - Bug or New Work?
A previous answer stated that:
On the other hand, if Feature Bar met the Definition of Done in a previous iteration, but bugs were later found after the feature was declared "done," then while you ...
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What is the term for an anti-user-story?
I need to create some short narratives that capture the "who", "what", and "why not" to show some of our stakeholders why we need a minor policy change.
For example, imagine I'm designing a control ...
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Should developers be talking to users during Story planning / refinement?
When you have a Product Owner who is less technical, can developers be brought into discovery with users and stakeholders?
e.g. A new project is underway and the PO is doing discovery, creating epics,...
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How to manage spec / user stories in Agile/Scrum
One of the common problems with traditional spec is that it's usually out of date. However, if we use a list of user stories as the spec, the thing is that the requirement may be scattered and cannot ...
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Technical user stories or development related tasks
I have some task in my Jira backlog that I don't know if them should be inside a user story. There are tasks related with development, server, configuration, etc. User didn't ask to have those task/...
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Epics and stories prioritization in JIRA
In this answer, an epic-story structure is suggested. I like this approach and I'm trying to utilize it. But, the problems how to handle priorities. More specifically, assume I have two epics (e1 and ...
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Story Points to Ideal Days
History
I work within a IT Team for my business that delivers (Develops & Unit Tests, QA, UAT and Releases) either system improvements or new systems to different areas of our business.
The team ...
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How to estimate a project budget using story points?
Current workflow in our company:
I create Given/When/Then scenarios or User stories
Developers estimate Scenarios/User stories in hours, by giving minimum and maximum amount of time for 1 scenario/...
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Should a team estimate tasks based on the executor's capacity or on the team average?
My team is adopting Scrum. When estimating story points for a backlog item, we use planning poker to reflect the team's average vision of the story's complexity.
When estimating task hours within a ...
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How to Record Bugs Following User Story Completion - in Large Projects
We run scrum agile methodology and have a development environment for development. At the end of each sprint, we close off all the tasks/stories that have been completed and promote the code/system to ...
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In our Agile/Scrum team, should we move or split incomplete stories?
Our Agile/Scrum teams are getting better at taking on manageable workload and completing them fully. However, sometimes for a variety of good reasons, some of the stories are not fully done at the end ...
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How do I write user stories for Testing tasks?
My team follows test driven development, and sometimes extreme programming.
If the latter, they would often complete a user story without testing, and then write the tests afterwards.
So, if I have ...
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Can I break a user story down after work as already started?
A story that has been picked up by a development team is too big. Is it 'okay' to break it down even though work has already commenced?
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Achieving independence for story items
I've been reading a lot about agile, stories, and INVEST recently, and trying to apply it to my work (with a view to introducing it all more broadly within our organisation).
I can see the value of ...
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Do you consider a defect an actual defect if it occurs in Dev prior to the acceptance of the User Story as Done?
A fully agile centric question.
If an exception, error, defect or bug occurs prior to the completion of a user story; do you log it is a bug or do simply consider part of the work required to make ...
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Is defining business rules the same thing as a story spike in Agile?
I am a developer in a new job where the team uses Agile. This is the first time I've been in a fully Agile team and I'm feeling a bit lost.
I've been asked to do a spike for the next block of work ...
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Scrum - Is a good practice to set the remaining work of a Sub-task?
I am working with TFS and I set the story points for all the user stories using the Fibonacci series and set the velocity of the team. TFS has a field called ´Remaining work´ for the sub-task, it is a ...
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How to estimate times during Sprint Planning?
I have 6 user stories for a sprint of 14 days. I have the detailed description in the stories for what the team needs to develop, and the team is new to scrum. (this would be their 2nd sprint). The ...
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How to find the right size for user stories for a dev team
One of my teams is struggling with user story sizing.
A couple of weeks ago the stories seemed to be too big i.e. they were dragging along / staying on the board for weeks.
The PO has started to ...
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How can we deal with a big story that does not break down?
I'm a developer. We have a non-technical BA writing our stories. There are a few stories coming down the pipeline that have a small business description. These stories require an unusually large ...
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Exchanging equivalent user stories (Story points based) in a sprint
In the middle of a sprint right now, the following problems have arose:
Urgent bug has cropped up that needs resolving
Stakeholder urgently needs a requirement integrated which is preventing a ...
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What to do if a member of a team finishes all his sprint tasks ahead of schedule?
I run 1 week sprints, lately my sprints are finishing ahead of schedule (one day before the end of the sprint) for one member of the team.
I know that some PMs wait until the next sprint cycle, ...
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Who decides minimum functionality for a story during planning?
I'm working on a team with 1 week sprints. We have a feature that provides a status indicator for a long running job processing up to thousands of files. There will be some development work to obtain ...
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Recreation of user stories for common functionality/screens between Releases?
To provide a background, we have created UI forms from Business Unit A for the end users to fill. Once completed/filled the UI form flows through the defined workflow, where different users in ...
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How can we track the status of very large, very broad user stories in our web development process?
I'm looking into using user stories for our next web project. For example:
There will be a homepage with some information and the latest projects for the client.
How could you turn this into one ...
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What Questions do you Ask the User to Elicit Requirements?
I was reading:
Instead of asking, “What do you want?” or even “What do you want the system to do?” an approach based on usage and user goals asks, “What do you need to do with the product?” Your ...
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Writing the Granularity of the Task - Where?
The following is from JIRA:
User stories are sketched out by the product owner, then the full
product team collectively decide the more detailed requirements.
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In Scrum, how to estimate research stories?
In our Scrum team, when there is uncertainty about a story or the team is not sure about how to implement it, we take up a research story first. Based on the findings of this research story, we are ...
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How do I define acceptance criteria for subjective outcomes?
We have written user stories such as:
As a small business owner
I want simple and easy instructions to follow for any recommendations to my website
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