{"id":103123,"date":"2019-02-01T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/?guid=0058e7a7acccad2aaacfc253de34361e"},"modified":"2019-02-01T02:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T18:14:00","slug":"how-to-write-agile-user-stories-7-guidelines-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/01\/how-to-write-agile-user-stories-7-guidelines-4\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write agile user stories: 7 guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fundamentally, agile user stories are short, simple tools to document a single action or intention desired by the targeted user to achieve a goal. The simplest user stories have a format, \u201cAs a <em>user type or role<\/em>, I want to <em>action or intent\u00a0<\/em>so that <em>reason or benefit<\/em>\u201d that answers at least three simple questions on who, what, and why the story is in the backlog queue.<\/p>\n<p>As teams mature and organizations use agile across multiple teams and initiatives, agile user stories often take on a lot more definition and structure to ensure there is a shared understanding of the intent and underlying requirements.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"fakesidebar\"><strong>[ Learn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3237509\/agile-development\/how-to-excel-in-agile-software-development.html\">how your enterprise can excel in agile development<\/a>. |\u00a0Take your agile career to the next level: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3236547\/agile-development\/how-to-improve-your-scrum-master-skills.html\">How to improve your scrum master skills<\/a>. | Not sure what \u201cagile\u201d really means? InfoWorld <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3237508\/what-is-agile-methodology-modern-software-development-explained.html\">explains the agile methodology<\/a>. | Keep up with hot topics in programming with InfoWorld\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/newsletters\/signup.html\">App Dev Report newsletter<\/a>. ]<\/strong><\/aside>\n<h2>Getting started with writing agile user stories<\/h2>\n<p>There are plenty of resources to help new product owners, business analysts, scrum masters, and technical leads to understand the basics of writing user stories. Some places to start include articles from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/agile\/project-management\/user-stories\" rel=\"nofollow\">Atlassian<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.freecodecamp.org\/how-and-why-to-write-great-user-stories-f5a110668246\" rel=\"nofollow\">FreeCodeCamp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agilemodeling.com\/artifacts\/userStory.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">Agile Modeling<\/a>, and these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountaingoatsoftware.com\/agile\/user-stories\" rel=\"nofollow\">200 user story examples<\/a>. One of the more complete writeups is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexandercowan.com\/best-agile-user-story\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alexander Cowan\u2019s best agile user story<\/a>. There are books on story writing, including <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/User-Story-Mapping-Discover-Product\/dp\/1491904909\/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=agile+user+stories&amp;qid=1548077815&amp;s=Books&amp;sr=1-4\" rel=\"nofollow\">User Story Mapping<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Jeff Paton and Peter Economy and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/User-Stories-Applied-Software-Development\/dp\/0321205685\/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=agile+user+stories&amp;qid=1548077815&amp;s=Books&amp;sr=1-6\" rel=\"nofollow\">User Stories Applied<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Mike Cohn. You can also take courses on story writing from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/userstory\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Udemy<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningtree.com\/courses\/4598\/effective-user-stories-training\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learning Tree<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versionone.com\/customer-success\/agile-training\/private-courses\/story-writing-workshop\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">VersionOne<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Project-Management-tutorials\/Agile-Work-Planning-Agile-User-Stories\/175074-2.html?srchtrk=index%3A1%0Alinktypeid%3A2%0Aq%3Aagile+user+stories%0Apage%3A1%0As%3Arelevance%0Asa%3Atrue%0Aproducttypeid%3A2\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lynda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.javaworld.com\/article\/3336149\/how-to-write-agile-user-stories-7-guidelines.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p>(Insider Story)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundamentally, agile user stories are short, simple tools to document a single action or intention desired by the targeted user to achieve a goal. The simplest user stories have a format, &ldquo;As a <em>user type or role<\/em>, I want to <em>action or intent&nbsp;<\/em>so that <em>reason or benefit<\/em>&rdquo; that answers at least three simple questions on who, what, and why the story is in the backlog queue.<\/p>\n<p>As teams mature and organizations use agile across multiple teams and initiatives, agile user stories often take on a lot more definition and structure to ensure there is a shared understanding of the intent and underlying requirements.<\/p>\n<aside><strong>[ Learn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3237509\/agile-development\/how-to-excel-in-agile-software-development.html\">how your enterprise can excel in agile development<\/a>. |&nbsp;Take your agile career to the next level: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3236547\/agile-development\/how-to-improve-your-scrum-master-skills.html\">How to improve your scrum master skills<\/a>. | Not sure what &ldquo;agile&rdquo; really means? InfoWorld <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3237508\/what-is-agile-methodology-modern-software-development-explained.html\">explains the agile methodology<\/a>. | Keep up with hot topics in programming with InfoWorld&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/newsletters\/signup.html\">App Dev Report newsletter<\/a>. ]<\/strong><\/aside>\n<h2>Getting started with writing agile user stories<\/h2>\n<p>There are plenty of resources to help new product owners, business analysts, scrum masters, and technical leads to understand the basics of writing user stories. Some places to start include articles from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/agile\/project-management\/user-stories\" rel=\"nofollow\">Atlassian<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.freecodecamp.org\/how-and-why-to-write-great-user-stories-f5a110668246\" rel=\"nofollow\">FreeCodeCamp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agilemodeling.com\/artifacts\/userStory.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">Agile Modeling<\/a>, and these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountaingoatsoftware.com\/agile\/user-stories\" rel=\"nofollow\">200 user story examples<\/a>. One of the more complete writeups is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexandercowan.com\/best-agile-user-story\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alexander Cowan&rsquo;s best agile user story<\/a>. There are books on story writing, including <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/User-Story-Mapping-Discover-Product\/dp\/1491904909\/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=agile+user+stories&amp;qid=1548077815&amp;s=Books&amp;sr=1-4\" rel=\"nofollow\">User Story Mapping<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>by Jeff Paton and Peter Economy and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/User-Stories-Applied-Software-Development\/dp\/0321205685\/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=agile+user+stories&amp;qid=1548077815&amp;s=Books&amp;sr=1-6\" rel=\"nofollow\">User Stories Applied<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>by Mike Cohn. You can also take courses on story writing from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/userstory\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Udemy<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningtree.com\/courses\/4598\/effective-user-stories-training\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learning Tree<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versionone.com\/customer-success\/agile-training\/private-courses\/story-writing-workshop\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">VersionOne<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Project-Management-tutorials\/Agile-Work-Planning-Agile-User-Stories\/175074-2.html?srchtrk=index%3A1%0Alinktypeid%3A2%0Aq%3Aagile+user+stories%0Apage%3A1%0As%3Arelevance%0Asa%3Atrue%0Aproducttypeid%3A2\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lynda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.javaworld.com\/article\/3336149\/how-to-write-agile-user-stories-7-guidelines.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Insider Story) <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/01\/how-to-write-agile-user-stories-7-guidelines-4\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[451,2,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,318,558,560,555,561,566,553,554,586,585,563,562,183,567,524,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,457,454,319,316],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-qPh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103124,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103123\/revisions\/103124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}