User Stories

Understanding the what and the why of User Stories from a talk that is still one of the best explanations of it out there.

Mike Cohn

Jun 06, 2012 • 52 min read

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User Stories

Functional Requirement

Product Management

Agile

Product Development

Summary

The video features Mike Cohn at the Norwegian Developers Conference making arguably one of the best User stories explanations ever. Mike believes that User stories are a requirement technique as they point you to the desired requirement when developing projects. He further explains that they help create a mutual connection between the business and the developers by obliterating problems like imbalance of power, imperfect schedules, and scarcity of resources. Delve into this video conference to learn more about User stories and how Mike explains them using Ron Jeffries's three Cs - Card, Conversation, and Confirmation.

Takeaways

User stories are a requirement technique when developing projects and not just Agile-based projects.
User stories solve the problems that may arise when the business is communicating with the software developers. Such problems include an imbalance of power - non of them should dominate during the process, the scarcity of resources issue - should be shared by the two parties, and an imperfect development schedule- should not arise as it makes it hard to make trade-offs analysis.