From the course: Agile Requirements Foundations
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User stories
From the course: Agile Requirements Foundations
User stories
- User stories are a common technique to help teams understand precisely what they're building. From a requirements perspective, they are the start of a requirement but more importantly, the start of a conversation. Working in an agile way means we document a memory of a conversation in a lightweight style. To provide some context as we look at what good user stories look like, let's look at one from our online coffee store case study. User stories have a who, a what and a why. In this story, the who, is an online shopper. The what, is pay for the items in my cart. And the why, is so I can proceed to get items shipped to me. Next, let's look at a common model for determining if we have a well articulated user story. It's called the Invest Model. And each letter stands for an attribute of good user stories Let's dig in. I stands for Independent. Each user story should be able to be implemented on its own. Meaning that it can stand on its own and does not need to wait for other stories…
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