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Effective User Stories for Agile Requirements
Mike Cohn (Mountain Goat Software)
Tutorials · Customer
Tuesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom South
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The technique of expressing requirements as user stories is one of the most
broadly applicable techniques introduced by the agile processes. User stories
are an effective approach on all time constrained projects and are a great way
to begin introducing a bit of agility to your projects.
In this session, we will look at how to identify and write good user stories.
The class will describe the six attributes that good stories should exhibit and
present thirteen guidelines for writing better stories. We will explore how user
role modeling can help when gathering a project’s initial stories.
Because requirements touch all job functions on a development project, this
tutorial will be equally suited for analysts, customers, testers, programmers,
managers, or anyone involved in a software development project.
Mike Cohn is the founder of Mountain Goat Software, a process and project management consultancy and training firm. Mike specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques in order to build extremely high performance development organizations. He is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning and User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, as well as books on Java and C++ programming. With more than 20 years of experience, Mike has previously been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to Fortune 40. He has also written articles for Better Software, IEEE Computer, Software Test and Quality Engineering, Agile Times, Cutter IT Journal, and the C++ Users' Journal. Mike is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, is a founding member of the Agile Alliance and serves on the board of directors for the Scrum Alliance. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer and a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. He can be reached at mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com.
