Download e-book for iPad: Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories by Gojko Adzic,David Evans,Nikola Korac

This publication can help you write larger consumer tales, spot and attach universal matters, cut up tales so they are smaller yet nonetheless beneficial, and take care of tricky stuff like crosscutting issues, long term results and non-functional necessities. in particular, this publication can assist you in achieving the promise of agile and iterative supply: to make sure that the proper stuff will get introduced via efficient discussions among supply group contributors and company stakeholders.

Who is that this ebook for?

This is a booklet for a person operating in an iterative supply atmosphere, doing making plans with consumer tales. the information during this booklet are worthwhile either to humans particularly new to person tales and people who were operating with them for years. those who paintings in software program supply, despite their function, will locate lots of guidance for attractive stakeholders higher and structuring iterative plans extra successfully. enterprise stakeholders operating with software program groups will become aware of how you can offer larger info to their supply teams, easy methods to set greater priorities and the way to outrun the contest by means of attaining extra with much less software.

Who is that this booklet now not for?

This publication does not disguise the fundamentals of reports. We imagine that readers understand what Card-Conversation-Confirmation skill, what make investments is and the way to use the elemental recommendations for splitting consumer tales. this is not the 1st booklet you need to examine consumer tales, if these phrases are unexpected. there are many stable simple books in the market, so learn them first after which come again. Please do not hate us simply because we skipped the fundamentals, yet there's in simple terms rather a lot area within the e-book and folks hide the fundamentals already good enough.

What's inside?

Unsurprisingly, the e-book comprises precisely fifty rules. they're grouped into 5 significant parts:

- growing tales: This half offers with taking pictures information regarding tales ahead of they get permitted into the supply pipeline. you will find rules approximately what sort of details to notice down on tale playing cards and the way to quick spot capability problems.

- making plans with tales: This half comprises rules that can assist you deal with the big-picture view, set milestones and organise long term work.

- Discussing tales: consumer tales are all approximately potent conversations, and this half comprises principles to enhance discussions among supply groups and company stakeholders. you will find out how you can notice hidden assumptions and the way to facilitate powerful conversations to make sure shared understanding.

- Splitting tales: the guidelines during this half might help you take care of huge and hard tales, delivering a number of thoughts for dividing them into smaller chunks that can assist you research speedy and convey worth quick.

- dealing with iterative supply: This half comprises principles to help you paintings with person tales within the brief and mid time period, deal with potential, prioritise and decrease scope to accomplish the main with the least software program.

Each half includes rules that we've got used with groups during the last 5 or 6 years to assist them deal with person tales larger and get extra price out of iterative supply. those rules come from many various contexts, from huge funding banks engaged on inner IT tasks to small net start-ups delivery customer software.