Tag: user-stories
All the articles with the tag "user-stories".
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INVEST and SPIDR both miss the point
INVEST vs SPIDR for user stories, and why both miss the point. They tell you whether a story is well-formed, not whether it is worth building. The structural flaw both share.
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Why "as a user, I want to..." is the worst thing that happened to user stories
The "as a user, I want X so that Y" template was a useful crutch in 2001. Twenty-five years later, it's a substitute for thinking. Here's what to write instead.
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Writing better user stories is the wrong goal. Here's what to optimise for instead.
There's a quiet epidemic in IT services teams. Business analysts and product owners are getting better at writing user stories. The stories are well-structured. They follow the template. They have crisp acceptance criteria. They pass every review. And the projects are still failing.