Originally I estimated stories as one, two, three, four or as small, medium, large, extra-large. It was always meant to be understood that a medium was twice the size of a small and a large was twice ...

One of the key benefits of Agile software development is its ability to reduce complex software projects into small, easily manageable user stories. User stories not only describe how a client will ...

In an earlier post, Salah wrote about applying lean development practices borrowed from the startup world to transform our Product Development group. By shifting our focus from a content-driven ...

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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, “As a user ...

Those who work with a Scrum board in Jira should know that the key difference between a Jira story versus an epic is the scope and size of the feature they describe. A story in Jira has clear ...

If you really want to sell a product to a customer, you need to convince them of why it is important in their daily life or business. That means that you need to speak to their wants, needs and ...

As near as I can tell, everyone who's doing Agile is writing requirements in the user story format of "As <role> I need to <do something> so that I can <achieve some goal>." For example, "As a ...

Some of the critical problems for any team working in an Agile way are managing the backlog of user stories, converting epics into stories, preventing scope creep, and -- most importantly -- picking ...

Struggling to get SEO recommendations implemented by developers? User stories can be a powerful tool. Here's how to write them. When you work in SEO long enough, you start noticing that the success of ...