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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Does spike failure cause sprint failure in Scrum?
I’ve read few articles about spikes in Scrum. In general there are recommendations to estimate spikes with story points and define acceptance criteria, pretty much as normal user stories. What is not ...
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How do I capture details in a user story?
Suppose I have a user story like:
As a customer, I am able to browse products by specifying a category.
If the Product Owner wishes to list the types of categories available such as books, ...
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How do you modify a delivered user story?
If you delivered a user story in a previous sprint and then need to make changes to that feature in the current sprint, what do you do?
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Change the user interface (UI) of a screen.
Change a ...
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Can the INVEST principles be found in my coffee machine user stories?
I'm trying to better understand the INVEST properties of user stories. For example, consider these two user stories:
A coffee machine is programmable and it's possible to define different kind of ...
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Confusion about user story in project requirement document
I've user story section in my project requirement document.
User story goes like this,
As a user I want to check in to the venue
and another one,
As a user if I already checked in then check in ...
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Which features of user story management should an agile team look for?
In my research study, I need to identify the key features of user story management tools that can be used to support agile development. So far, I identified the following general groups of features: ...
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Why do Scrum user stories only use the Fibonacci series?
I know that user stories in Scrum are measured with a Modified Fibonacci sequence (0.5, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40...). Why does Scrum only use Fibonacci numbers to estimate stories?
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How can I manage both user stories and other non-backlog tasks if using VersionOne?
We are taking our first steps in agile and Scrum. We use VersionOne for managing our user stories and tasks.
As the development manager, I am trying to build a sprint plan for the development team. ...
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Does the team estimate time for tasks or stories or both?
During the sprint planning meeting, does the team estimate time for each story, or the tasks that make up the story? Then which is tracked by the team/scrum master?
I assume the team estimates the ...
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How handle small refactorings and minor code base improvements in Scrum?
How should be handle small improvements, should we include story for them in each sprint? Or should it be done outside of the sprint scope? I am talking here about things like Uncle Bob's boy scout ...
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How to handle confusion of "user stories" term in agile methodology?
I find myself in an non-agile environment where "user story" actually means "use case, backed by an excel requirements specification, a testing specification doc, and a few required wireframes || mock ...
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Sizing an entire backlog using story points
I'm a PM on a large multi-year project with a sizable backlog of work implementing Scrum in 4 week release cycles. I hold weekly backlog grooming sessions with the project team and key business ...
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First sprint: Epics chosen instead of stories - should I re-estimate and when?
I am trying out Scrum on a small, one-person project. During my first sprint, I realized that all of the stories I've chosen are really epics and should be broken down into much smaller pieces. The ...
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Why use iterations in Scrum?
I am a Scrum Master in a 7 person team. We currently use one-week iterations for our sprints.
I find that sprint planning overhead is huge (2 hours each week for entire team), and not nearly as ...
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Is there a difference between use case and user stories?
Is there any difference between use case and user stories?
Or are these totally different terms in the context of agile planning?
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Develop from Use Cases or Business Requirements
I'm involved in a project where the business team created a large business requirements document that were using to create product backlog items and acceptance criteria.
However, they have also ...
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Handling new suggestions to resolved user stories in closed sprint
In a project managed using scrum framework, I've a situation where all tasks associated to a user story (feature) had been done successfully. No more code changes are allowed since testing is in ...
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How do you refactor a story?
We've been using Pivotal Tracker on a software library project for well over a year. I'm the (admittedly not great) PM. The team is very good about writing notes on the story cards as things ...
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Agile Scrum Storyboards
At the moment I'm Scrum Master for my place of work. We have one Scrum Team in our organisation which is split across two sites:
Site 1: Scrum Master, Developer, QA
Site 2: Developer, Operational, ...
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What are the best practices/methods/tools/techniques for conflict identification in requirements?
For the sake of this discussion requirements = user-stories (since I'm not differentiating any process per se and would like to get rid of any ambiguities).
It's quite common to have a set of about ...
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What is a reasonable strategy for estimating story points for new stories?
The project I'm running is very exploratative in that I don't know very much detail about features in advance. My boss will tell me that he wants feature A and that after feature A is finished, he'll ...
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using the prototype for live when building CMS/CRUD systems - wrong? [closed]
I'm currently reading Steve McConnells "Survival Guide" and am thinking of how I can improve our processes on requirements development. The book seems to have very strong ideas about using prototypes ...
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When should you do sprint planning?
We tend to do our retrospective on the final day of the sprint and have found that by the end of an hour and a half, launching into a planning session is not ideal at all.
When do you hold your ...
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