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Invest Session

User stories

  • Concentrate on the user need
  • Describe business value
  • From what System should do → Functionality that will be valuable to a user

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Invest is a mnemonic to write a backlog item (user story)

Independent

  • Can be developed on its own and in any order
  • At least, in each iteration

Negotiable

  • Changed and rewritten up until part of an iteration

Valuable

  • Slicing
  • Add value to the business
  • Why are we building it? Who are we building for?

Estimable

  • Prioritise the cards
    Barriers for estimation

  • Story being too big

  • Not enough information

  • Lack of domain knowledge or technical knowledge

  • “Spike” stories, to tackle technical knowledge gap

Small & Scalable

  • Stories should take not weeks

Testable

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Acceptance Criteria

  • Represents the behaviour of the system
  • Test scenarios
  • Given..When…Then

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