User_Story_Notes

Examples

As a business traveler I want to reschedule a flight in the future so that I know I can still get home but finish an important business meeting
As a business traveler I want to cancel a flight because my schedule changes and if I don’t update it now I might forget and lose money
As a traveler’s representative I want to inform a business traveler of a delayed flight to keep them from spending their limited free time at the airport
Monopoly
A Player can land on go and receive $200
A Player can land on Reading Railroad and purchase it
A Player can land on Boardwalk and pay rent
Online Student Store
I’m a student who wants to purchase books for my schedule
I’m a student who wants to purchase supplemental materials for a course
I’m a student who needs to get the cost for the books and materials of a semester’s schedule

Independent

Avoid dependencies between stories Negotiable
Not contracts, but place holders for conversations Valuable to users or customers
Can be directly tied to something a user or customer (purchaser) wants Estimatable
Can fit into an iteration and be approximately estimated Small
Can be done in a “short” time & its details fit in a conversation Testable
Can describe ways in which we know the story works

Many of these come of Mike Cohn’s work.