Comments on: Writing user stories for agile (Scrum) projects

By: User stories versus use cases

User stories versus use cases — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:57:23 +0000

[...] can read more about user stories in a previous post: Writing user stories for agile (Scrum) projects and the follow up post Writing user stories for agile (Scrum) projects – [...]

By: Writing user stories for agile (Scrum) projects – revisited

Writing user stories for agile (Scrum) projects – revisited — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:19:16 +0000

[...] have earlier written a post about writing user stories for agile (Scrum) projects. During several projects I have now refined the way I do this and in this post I will explain my [...]

By: Per Ola Sæther

Per Ola Sæther — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:38:56 +0000

Hi Fred,
I would love to post examples from real projects I work on but I work as a consultant for different clients and I would not feel comfortable posting examples from external projects. If I get involved in a project in the future were I am able to publish some of the user stories I will be happy to do that.

You are correct; normally you would not split user stories by minor differences but I like to have the user stories as detailed as possible (but not to detailed). Then I use ScrumWorks and add each user story as a task in my product backlog.

The INVEST acronym which Cohn recommends is a good thumb-rule to use when writing user stories.

Thanks for your comments.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:06:02 +0000

A couple of comments. First, these examples are very canned. They aren’t real. Why not share some examples from a real project? That would be great!

Second, it is not normal to split user stories by minor differences in sorting (sort by price, sort by popularity). On a real project, this will lead to an unmanageable number of stories – many of which have large overlaps. Have a look at Cohn’s book, he discusses this. You are better to define one story for your blu-ray situation and add notes about sorting choices.

You could also use the Invest acronym which Cohn recommends.

Thanks for your post. Still on the hunt for real user stories from real projects.

By: User stories for the RSWM project

User stories for the RSWM project — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:14:19 +0000

[...] I will kick off the Run Smart With Me (RSWM) project by writing user stories. By doing so I will have a good idea on what functionality I need to implement in this Windows Mobile application. When writing these user stories I will use the template from my earlier post: Writing user stories for agile (Scrum) projects. [...]