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User stories are the basic units of work for Agile methodologies. They describe features to implement in a system and are one of the primary artifact generated...

2 replies - 7960 views - 10/26/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Use Stories to Deliver Business Value

Why is it that companies choose to pay developers to write software? It's definitely not because software has any degree of intrinsic value. Companies fund...

0 replies - 10602 views - 06/28/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Writing user stories for web applications

User stories are the substitute of formal requirements documents in an agile environment: they are short summaries of a functionality that leave space to...

1 replies - 9671 views - 05/25/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Stories are about why; not what or how

Story Fomats I've been on numerous Agile projects with varying methods for capturing stories. Quite popular (and purportedly the ThoughtWorks standard)...

1 replies - 839 views - 04/08/10 by Michael Norton in Articles

A User Story Primer

In this three part article series, co-author Pete Behrens and I provide an overview on the derivation and application of user stories, which are the primary...

0 replies - 5741 views - 12/17/09 by Dean Leffingwell in Articles

User Stories - Tell it like it is

At every training session I do on Agile and Scrum, there two questions that are guaranteed to be asked without fail. What are user stories? and Why are...

0 replies - 1598 views - 08/26/09 by Jack Milunsky in Articles