Comments on: Quick tips for writing effective User Stories http://blog.robbowley.net/2009/04/22/quick-tips-for-writing-effective-user-stories/ adventures in extreme programming Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:34:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Matt Wynne http://blog.robbowley.net/2009/04/22/quick-tips-for-writing-effective-user-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-1051 Matt Wynne Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:40:02 +0000 http://blog.robbowley.net/?p=416#comment-1051 Liz Keogh (author of JBehave, a Java BDD framework) has suggested, and I for one agree, that there's a better template that promotes the vital 'so that' info to the front of the story: http://lizkeogh.com/2008/09/10/feature-injection-and-handling-technical-stories/ Liz Keogh (author of JBehave, a Java BDD framework) has suggested, and I for one agree, that there’s a better template that promotes the vital ’so that’ info to the front of the story:

http://lizkeogh.com/2008/09/10/feature-injection-and-handling-technical-stories/

]]> By: Immo Huneke http://blog.robbowley.net/2009/04/22/quick-tips-for-writing-effective-user-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-1036 Immo Huneke Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:59:42 +0000 http://blog.robbowley.net/?p=416#comment-1036 Hi Rob, thanks for these useful summaries. Another thing I like to stress is that a story should have a title. It's amazing how difficult some people find it to put a simple, clear subject on top of their stories. Doing so demonstrates that the story has some kind of cohesion - it does one specific thing. It also makes it much easier to discuss things like prioritisation later on. Hi Rob, thanks for these useful summaries.

Another thing I like to stress is that a story should have a title. It’s amazing how difficult some people find it to put a simple, clear subject on top of their stories. Doing so demonstrates that the story has some kind of cohesion – it does one specific thing. It also makes it much easier to discuss things like prioritisation later on.

]]> By: Joshua Hoover http://blog.robbowley.net/2009/04/22/quick-tips-for-writing-effective-user-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-970 Joshua Hoover Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:22:35 +0000 http://blog.robbowley.net/?p=416#comment-970 Great points Rob. A generic user is of no use but it's amazing how many times you see this. Completely agree on "so that". I've worked with teams where the reason given for leaving out why a story is important is because it's hard to think about. No kidding. I've worked with teams where they were throwing out stories after giving the "so that" part of the story a few minutes of thought. The team came to the conclusion that some of the stories had no real value and were on the backlog because it was easy to throw on there. It's amazing how much progress can be made by paying attention to these two little words. :) Great points Rob. A generic user is of no use but it’s amazing how many times you see this.

Completely agree on “so that”. I’ve worked with teams where the reason given for leaving out why a story is important is because it’s hard to think about. No kidding. I’ve worked with teams where they were throwing out stories after giving the “so that” part of the story a few minutes of thought. The team came to the conclusion that some of the stories had no real value and were on the backlog because it was easy to throw on there. It’s amazing how much progress can be made by paying attention to these two little words. :)

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