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Splitting user stories - the hamburger method

A technique for splitting user stories that helps teams view things from their comfort zone.

Profile image of Gojko Adzic
Feb 23, 2012 • 5 min read
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Product Specifications
Product Increment
Use Case
Story Mapping

Summary

Learn how to use a technique to split user stories into smaller stories that help teams to visualise business workflows from different perspectives. It details six key steps of applying the User Story Hamburger that helps inexperienced teams break down stories into smaller tasks that still deliver incremental business value. The Hamburger method works well to teams that insist on breaking down a story into technical workflow or component tasks by helping them embrace division of stories into more achievable steps.

Takeaways

  • Inexperienced teams find it difficult spilliting stories into smaller stories that still deliver business value but rather prefer to breakdown stories into technical workflow or component tasks.
  • The Hamburger method breaks down business workflow to keep the team in their comfort zone.
  • The User Story Hamburger is proposed to work well in situations where a team cannot find a good way to break things down and is insisting on technical divisions.

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