User Stories: A Collaboration Tool for Business and IT: How to Capture, Write, Prioritize, Rightsize, and Flesh Out User Stories including Acceptance Tests as GWT Scenarios - Couverture souple

Hathaway, Thomas; Hathaway, Angela

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798544126102

Editeur : Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

User Stories Demystified and Distilled for the User Community and Technical Teams

Learn how to become the User Story Expert in your organization.

Well-written, insightful User Stories are the foundation business and technical teams need to develop and deliver digital solutions that support your business goals and delight your users. You can be the hero that moves your company closer to the holy grail that is “business agility”. User Stories are currently the best tool for communicating user requirements and needs. To develop outstanding digital solutions that delight your users, stakeholders, and developers need a common understanding. This User Story bootcamp in a book can open new doors for you:

• As a user or Subject Matter Expert, you can express your needs in the format that developers understand and need.
• As a developer, you can deliver digital solutions that will delight your customers.
• As a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or User Experience Designer, you get a clear understanding of all perspectives to ensure that the developers deliver what the organization needs.
• As a Tester, you can prove that the product works as intended.

Learn how to find, write, right-size, and flesh-out User Stories. But the proof is in the pudding. That’s why you will also learn how to design Acceptance Criteria and Tests to evaluate whether the delivered solution correctly implements the User Story.

• If you feel overwhelmed trying to explain what you expect a proposed digital solution to deliver, this book is for you!
• If you are a developer frustrated trying to understand what the business community really wants, this book gives you solutions!
• If you are anxious about attending a User Story Workshop, you really should read this book!

By the way, if you are a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Subject Matter Expert, User Experience (UX) Designer, or Developer working with people to get their "real" User Stories, you definitely need this book!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
This book gives all members of the business and developer community a common base for supercharging effective communication.

• Understand the power of the 3 C’s - The Card, the Conversation, the Criteria (or Confirmation).
• Reduce time to deliver software by writing well-formed, actionable User Stories answering the WHO (role), WHAT (action or outcome), and WHY (business value) of a business need.
• Translate business needs into well-structured User Stories that follow the INVEST (Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, Testable) guidelines.
• Identify User Story contributors using User Role Modeling, Persona Development, and Stakeholder Identification techniques.
• Synchronize the vision of the business and the development team with clearly defined Acceptance Criteria that clarify the intent of the User Story.
• Break down User Stories at the RIGHT time and to the RIGHT level of detail.
• Save time and resources by leveraging the Lean principles of waste reduction, last responsible moment, and built-in quality in collaborative User Story writing.
• Learn 6 techniques to reduce ambiguity, save time in 3-Amigos Conversations, and allow your Agile Team to deliver solutions that delight end-users.
• Ensure that your User Stories are at the right level of detail for prioritization and splitting.
• Apply 8 ways to split User Stories, Epics, and Features in Preparation for Imminent Sprints or Releases.
• Develop business-focused Acceptance Tests that prove that the solution delivers desired and defined features and functions.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Angela and Tom Hathaway have 30+ years’ experience in UX Design and Business Analysis. They have trained tens of thousands of people around the world. Simplifying complex ideas is their passion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798544126102
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 213
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg