Create User Stories that Don't Suck!
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The document emphasizes the importance of creating effective user stories in agile development, encouraging collaboration through partner discussions about common issues with user stories. Participants are guided to role-play as contractors and customers to understand project requirements better and document conditions for satisfaction using a structured format. Key components of a successful user story are outlined, including acceptance criteria and various strategies for story splitting.
Create User Stories that Don't Suck!
- 1. Create User Stories that Don’t Suck! David Hawks @aus9nagile
- 2. 3 Sponsors Diamond In Kind Gold Platinum
- 3. What’s your BIGGEST BEEF with User Stories? Get together with a partner and share stories about Stories. Write down your partner’s biggest beefs.
- 4. Sharing Time! • How about some volunteers to share what you heard from your partner? • Share the beef!
- 6. Instruc9ons • Work at your table/with a small group of 4 – 5. • Some of you volunteer to be the “contractor” (the development team or project manager) • The remaining members are the customer • The customer picks some kind of home remodeling project • Examples: – Remodel bathroom – Remodel kitchen – Add a story to the home
- 7. Write the Name of the project on a card and the contractors should interview the customers to understand the job.
- 8. Document the condi9ons of sa9sfac9on for your story
- 9. The Three C’s Card
- 10. The Three C’s Card Conversa9on
- 11. The Three C’s Card Conversa9on Confirma9on
- 12. User Stories As a <WHO> I want <WHAT> So that <WHY>
- 13. User Story Example As a frequent flyer I want to rebook a past trip So that I save time booking trips I take.
- 15. Independent Nego9able Valuable Es9mable Small (a.k.a. Sized Appropriately) Testable
- 16. + + Backlog Grooming (Regular cadence weekly or bi-‐weekly) This is where the conversa9ons happen
- 20. But Dave, Everything doesn’t fit in a Sprint!
- 21. Richard Lawrence’s Story Spli^ng Strategies • Workflow Steps • Business Rule Varia9ons • Major Effort • Simple / Complex • Varia9ons in Data • Data Entry Methods • Defer Performance • Opera9ons (e.g. CRUD) • Break out a Spike
- 22. David Hawks [email protected] www.AgileVelocity.com Blog: www.Aus9nAgile.com Twider: @Aus9nAgile Thanks!
- 23. 37 Sponsors Diamond In Kind Gold Platinum