An introduction to user stories, given at the Agile Tour 2011 in Brescia

1. Cesare D'Amico
Lone developer applying XP values and Agile
methodologies (as often as possible!)
cesare@wyrd.it @__ce

4. …a better way?

5. a user story is one or more sentences in
the everyday or business language of the
end user that captures what the user wants
to achieve (extremeprogramming.org)

6. Should
be written by the customers: “User
Stories are written by the customers as
things that the system needs to do for
them” (extremeprogramming.org)

7. Should
be short
be high level: “User stories should only
provide enough detail to make a
reasonably low risk estimate of how long
the story will take to implement”
(extremeprogramming.org)
be prioritized
(next session!)

8. be small but not too small, nor too big

9. Epic

12. Questions?