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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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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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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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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What is the difference between acceptance criteria and the definition of done?
I don't get what is the difference between both. They seem to be similar to me. For instance, I have this typical login/register User Story. Can you provide some DOD examples?
As a user
I want to ...
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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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How do we prevent debates over whether changes to user stories are new work or bugs?
I'm struggling to determine where capturing of user story elaborations and discussions fits into agile. A lot of what I have read and agree with is:
You should be focusing on discussions with your ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
so that I understand what it is I need to do ...
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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 split a User Story that spans multiple sprints?
I have a User Story that contains a bunch of tasks, similar to this:
User Story: Fix any broken JavaScript in CMS
Task: Find and fix broken JavaScript in content
Task: Find and fix broken ...
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How to write user stories for our UI development process?
First of all, let me apologize if I make some writing mistakes since english is not my native language.
I'm currently working at a UX company as a front-end dev and I'm having some problems trying to ...
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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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User story mapping - producer/consumer process
My product has two types of users: producers (i.e., admin panel users) and consumers (end users).
Consumers are able to interact with an app and producers are able to process consumers' requests from ...
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What is the weighting difference between Epic/Story/Task
I am slightly confused between the three.
From my understanding:
Epic - Create a web site (T shirt size) (L)
Story - Create the Home page (1 point)
Task - Create a button on the home page that is ...
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Difference between user story and acceptance criteria
I am having trouble differentiating user stories and acceptance criteria.
An example on I saw elsewhere state -
User Story:
As a user of the library catalogue, I want advanced search options on the ...
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Should we write technical stories against business stories where technical stories will have diagrams?
Should we write technical stories against business stories where technical stories will have class diagrams or sequence diagrams, or where technical items will be broken down into design tasks ...
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Can a single user story be associated with multiple epics?
For example, we have two epics, 'User Management' and 'SSO API', which are broken down appropriately. A user story for lost password functionality is created, but the story is relevant to both epics.
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How can user stories meet INVEST criteria in design-led development?
How should our team handle agile development when the development is pretty much steered by the final product designs, which were done in advance? In other words, how can we break down requirements ...
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Which scrum actors should attend a requirements gathering session
I'm currently having a debate with some of my business analysts as to whether the testers and developers from the scrum team assigned to a project should be involved in the requirements gathering ...
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Should you export data to Excel and Word?
I'm the Project Manager for a large application that customers use to collect data on whether their businesses meet certain medical and financial standards. They generally answer a survey explaining ...
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What are the best practices to create UAT pack in Scrum?
How do we create test packs for the final UAT. We create user stories and associated acceptance criteria which either can pass or fail. This can be done with test team but for business users what ...
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How to properly create story maps? (user stories)
I have a website that I need to build and want to properly create story maps. I am just learning how to do this so I would love a bit of help.
My setup:
Users:
admins
customers
personal
business
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In Agile, can I put multi user stories in one sprint?
In this case, my team has 3 members and each member has own task. So I decide I have 3 user stories and places them in one sprint.
I was very confuse about sprint and user story. Whether I put multi ...
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How to keep track of all the goals of a large project?
I have a very large library project in-progress involving French linguistics - (it will be) multi-faceted to work with the many aspects of language, including algorithmic inflections/conjugations, ...
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How to deal with non agile teams
We are currently facing this problem in a scrum team.
Imagine you a have a user story with a front-end part which calls a webservice to get some data. Imagine that your scrum team do back-end,front-...
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User Stories structure for architectural requirenments
Once all user stories are written down for functional requirements, we still need to define some other requirements as communication with a remote server or navigation. This whole process could be ...
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Security Requirements and User Stories
How I should represent Security Requirements if I use User Stories?
Should they be represented like special "evil" stories?
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Should they be just "invisible" parts of user stories? I.e. if ...
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Agile in enterprise: How to represent the requirements of non-business stakeholders?
I currently work on a large scale software project in a large company.
We follow an agile approach for development; however, due to the size of the the company there are several stakeholders that ...
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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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What is a good total size for a Product Backlog?
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I realize the size of a product backlog will vary with each project. But assuming a project that is large enough to require a significant length time, is there any research or statistics on ...
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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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An Epic within an Epic
First off, I believe I have a good understanding of User Story Hierarchy (Epic > Story > Task), but I've had a quick search around and I wasn't able to find a definitive answer to this.
Can you ...
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Should I remove a User Story from a Sprint in progress if I know we can't complete it?
In the sprint can we remove (move to the upcoming sprint) the planned stories (mid sprint), if we are 100% sure we can’t complete them?
Example given:
Suppose we planned to 5 stories to be completed ...
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Who tests what criteria for epics?
So our product owner is in a position where she feels encumbered by the decomposition of a large user story:
Product owner presents a story
Engineers determine that it is too big for a single story
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Managing small + large tasks on a big website with Scrum
We're a small team of 4 developers who manage one large website and a group of minisites/mobile apps. We've used JIRA/Agile and Scrum, as best we can, to manage the workflow for the last few months.
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Do multiple levels of epics make sense?
Is it a sensible approach to have multiple levels of epics to structure the requirements of an Agile project?
For example:
Epic "As a User I want to browse information on a website"
Epic "... I ...
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How to write measurable acceptance criteria to stories without a measurable goal?
Example story:
As a player, I want to buy weapons from merchants, so that I can progress further
The other parts of the story could have acceptance criteria such as "There is a gun merchant in town" ...
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