1. Nigel Mossman Standard Data systems Limited

2.  A task that can be performed in an Agile Project  Describes a user requirement or feature  Written in “business language”  Clear statement of what the user needs  Discrete functionality ◦ Can be tested ◦ The planning game may decompose the story

3.  As a, I want [so that ]. Example: As an order clerk, I want to search for a customer account so that I can determine start processing an order.

4.  As a set of bullet points, note additional supporting features  Continuing the example: ◦ Search by name (partial match) ◦ Search by account number ◦ Return no more than 20 matching accounts ◦ List returned in under 10 seconds

5.  Help the discussion with the developers  Identify test criteria ◦ How will the developers know they’ve done what you asked for  Help you to think about story granularity

6.  Include supporting artefacts ◦ Example documents ◦ Screenshots ◦ References to trade journals or books

7.  Sometimes, an agile project might be fixing bugs in a system  Amend the story format:  As an order clerk, I would like the system not to crash when searching for customers with over 20 characters in their name.  It’s OK to describe solutions  Identify examples of when the problem occurs  Developers cannot fix problems they cannot recreate

8.  Write a functional overview ◦ Several paragraphs written in business language ◦ Describing the features of the new function/module ◦ Use story boards  When complete ◦ Decompose into stories ◦ Identify qualifiers for each story  May need 2-3 parses to complete

9.  Business Story ◦ Regular story to add features to an application  Technical Story ◦ Developer story which does not implement any business features but does resolve some essential technical problem.

10.  Spike ◦ Used when the solution is not obvious, there are several options or risk ◦ Does not usually deliver any completed work ◦ Does deliver sufficient to produce an estimate on how to deliver a story  Can be used for both business and technical stories  Users can requests spikes

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