From the course: Agile Foundations
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User stories
- User stories are another area that gets a lot of attention. Product owners have anxiety around creating the best possible user stories. This is especially true for product owners who were once business analysts. A business analyst spends a lot of time writing the clearest possible project requirements. That's because clear requirements will cause less problems down the road, but user stories are completely different. There's a form and format to the stories, but this is not nearly as formal as project requirements. A user story is more like a placeholder for a future conversation. Remember that agile teams encourage face-to-face communication. They don't rely on documentation. This is the sixth principle and second value in the Agile manifesto. So user stories aren't about getting the right format. They're much more about having the right conversation. With that being said, there's still a common format for user stories. Typically, it's, as a user, I want some feature so that I can…
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