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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User Story breakdown - Technical Task + User Feature
My team is building a web application that has the following high-level user story:
As a user, I would like the ability to bulk exclude components from a
given country.
The work breaks down into ...
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When to know I'm ready to start developing
Created user stories for a specific software development project and, from my last question, learned to just jump into dev even though there might exist undiscovered user stories.
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Which development method to choose - Test-Driven or Behaviour Driven Development
In my current company, we follow DSDM.
But the maturity of the process is in progress and we are adapting various methods to be Agile.
Current Process: Currently epics and user stories elaboration ...
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Detect undiscovered user stories
Created user stories for a specific project but not sure if I'm missing to write down some that were hard to spot.
In order to not cause (or reduce) development headaches, how can I detect previously ...
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How to identify optimum story points for user stories
I would like to discuss a scenario in the sprint planning. Suppose the total velocity of the sprint is 30 as per the previous sprints. The objective of the product owner is to plan 3 stories with 10 ...
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Slicing User Stories
I have few queries on how granular we need to go on splitting stories.
We have a story where clicking the phone no in the system should dial cisco or skype or any other telephony systems based on the ...
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What metrics can we generate from t-shirt sizes (rather than story points) when estimating user stories?
If I am using T-shirt sizing for my user story estimates, what metrics I can measure and report? We currently use a Sprint burn-down chart when using story points.
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How do I capture business workflow in a user story?
As a Product Owner, I am working with a team that use the 'AS A / I WANT / SO THAT' style of user story. I have a system that has a several workflows to be followed depending on the setting of certain ...
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Does every Scrum story need to be completed at the end of the sprint?
I have worked on teams which, while using Scrum, have fallen either side of this opinion: every story must be complete by the end of the sprint.
What is the "official" definition/requirement?
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Lingua franca for technical stories
I have coached my team to write quite good user stories using gherkin, but their technical stories are still lacking something.
The problem is that when a person of one technical discipline reads the ...
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Should all team members be assigned user stories?
This is a very basic question but I don't see any answers on it yet.
Scenario: We did sprint planning and I noticed some one saying
Not all developers have a task to do. We need to add more tasks ...
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Scrum for SDK development - split stories horizontally?
Our product is moving more and more in the direction of a software development kit (SDK) which can be used by other developers.
This brings up quite some challenges to our agile processes, though ...
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How to write a user story involving artistic work?
Using Scrum, what would be the way to define, structure and estimate a user story, containing work for an artist?
The main problem that I'm interested here is that an artistic story can take a long ...
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How to handle when planned work is blocked and a developer has capacity to take on a new user story that may be too big
Assume the following situation. All but one user story planned in a sprint is completed.
The remaining user story is blocked.
A developer would like to take on work in the highest priority work ...
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How to treat users stories which were almost completed at the previous sprint? [duplicate]
How to treat users stories which were almost completed at previous sprint but didn't meet Definition of Done due to testers were late for some reason.
Suppose one of those stories was 5 story points, ...
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Requirements vs User stories
In this accepted answer (from Software Engineering StackExchange) to a question targeting my blocker, one can read:
(...) think of user stories as a subset of requirements (...)
It's quite ...
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Specifications in spreadsheets vs. stories in JIRA
I think this is a very common issue a lot of companies fight with. So I would like to ask for your input.
Product Owners often prefer to keep specifications in Google spreadsheet. And then write user ...
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What magnets for a glass whiteboard? [closed]
What design and strength of magnets are best for a glass whiteboard, used to hold our story cards for daily stand-ups?
We have a glass whiteboard, and many magnets fail to stick through the glass, or ...
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How to correctly define tasks in a user story? And can you split the tasks between sprints?
I'm fairly new to Scrum and I'm working with a group of colleagues on a project to learn more about it. Long story short our project is simply creating a website for tourists of our country where they ...
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Is system 'logging' captured in user stories or are they part of implementation detail?
I understand that anyone who supports and maintains system can be seen (or should be seen?) as a stakeholder/user.
For me, so far 'logging' has been like:
"I guess, it wouldn't hurt to log this ...
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When does a Scrum Team assign story points to the stories in the Scrum methodology?
I am in the process of learning Scrum. I got stuck with a question: on which stage does the Scrum Team assign story points to the user stories?
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What should a scrum team do if they complete work earlier than expected?
Our development team estimates that they can complete 30 story points in the current iteration. Partway through the sprint they realize that they will complete 50 story points at their current rate. ...
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Agile user story's task estimation
I have some confusion regarding the concept of a user story's task's estimation (effort estimate) using hours. What is the actual purpose of estimating effort in hours?
In addition to that, let's ...
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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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Is it OK to defer implementation detail and consider user story to be done?
I am just getting into user stories (read some blogs and watched some of Mike Cohn's presentations).
My current understanding is that the story is a vertical slice of the system.
Stories are not "Add ...
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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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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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Is it fine to correct an estimation of a story during execution?
During the sprint execution, the team should be allowed to change the estimation of a story in the following scenarios.
During execution
When a story is finished
Re-estimate in the absence of the ...
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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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To what framework do "User Stories" belong?
In my University of Applied Science we got taught that user stories are a part of Scrum, and when reading things on the internet it seems that everyone indeed uses User Stories when using Scrum. The ...
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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 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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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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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 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 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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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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