User Stories: What, Why, And How

Similar to my "Writing User Stories For Engineers", this talk is focused on informing engineers why user stories are important.

Transcript

1. USER STORIES What, Why, and How
2. WHAT
3. “User stories are short, simple descriptions of a feature told from the perspective of the person who desires the new capability, usually a user or customer of the system. - Mountain Goat Software
4. AS A <TYPE OF USER>, I WANT <SOME GOAL> SO THAT <SOME REASON>.
5. WHY
6. YOU SHOULD HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT YOUR USERS SHOULD BE DOING ON YOUR APP
7. HUH???
8. DON’T BUILD AN APP IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHY OR HOW PEOPLE WILL BE USING IT User stories help you figure that out
9. HOW
10. EXAMPLE As a user of Apple Music, I should be able to create playlists of any songs in my library so that I can listen to a list of songs in an order that I have chosen.
11. EXAMPLE As a user, I can backup my entire hard drive. … but this story is pretty freakin’ massive
12. LET’S BREAK IT UP! As a power user, I can specify files or folders to backup based on file size, date created and date modified. As a user, I can indicate folders not to backup so that my backup drive isn't filled up with things I don't need saved.
13. QUESTIONS?