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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development
Addison–Wesley Professional
March 2004
Paperback, 304 pages
ISBN: 0321205685
On-Site and On-Line Training Courses for Business Analysts All About Use Cases
How to Elicit (Gather), Write, and Analyze Business Requirements
How to Elicit Business System Requirements
How to Initiate Requirements Gathering with User Stories
How to Manage and Communicate Requirements
How to Manage Changing Requirements
How to Prepare and Facilitate Productive JRP-JAD Sessions
How to Test an Application using Business Requirements
Description
The concept of user stories has its roots as one of the main tenets of Extreme
Programming. In simple terms, user stories represent an effective means of
gathering requirements from the customer (roughly akin to use cases). This
book describes user stories and demonstrates how they can be used to properly
plan, manage, and test software development projects. The book highlights
both successful and unsuccessful implementations of the concept, and provides
sets of questions and exercises that drive home its main points. After absorbing
the lessons in this book, readers will be able to introduce user stories in their
organizations as an effective means of determining precisely what is required of
a software application.
Features
Features
Learn to build robust software that more closely meets the customer‘s needs through applying the concept of user stories.
° A clear explanation of the most agile means of gathering software requirements
° Thoroughly reviewed and eagerly anticipated by the agile software development community
° Allows the reader to save time and resources by gathering the proper requirements BEFORE coding begins
From the back cover:
Backcover Copy
Agile requirements: discovering what your users really want. With this book, you will learn to:
- Flexible, quick and practical requirements that work
- Save time and develop better software that meets users‘ needs
- Gathering user stories –– even when you can‘t talk to users
- How user stories work, and how they differ from use cases, scenarios, and traditional requirements
- Leveraging user stories as part of planning, scheduling, estimating, and testing
- Ideal for Extreme Programming, Scrum, or any other agile methodology
Thoroughly reviewed and eagerly anticipated by the agile community, User Stories Applied offers a requirements process that saves time, eliminates rework, and leads directly to better software.
The best way to build software that meets users‘ needs is to begin with "user stories": simple, clear, brief descriptions of functionality that will be valuable to real users. In User Stories Applied, Mike Cohn provides you with a front–to–back blueprint for writing these user stories and weaving them into your development lifecycle.
You‘ll learn what makes a great user story, and what makes a bad one. You‘ll discover practical ways to gather user stories, even when you can‘t speak with your users. Then, once you‘ve compiled your user stories, Cohn shows how to organize them, prioritize them, and use them for planning, management, and testing.
- User role modeling: understanding what users have in common, and where they differ
- Gathering stories: user interviewing, questionnaires, observation, and workshops
- Working with managers, trainers, salespeople and other "proxies"
- Writing user stories for acceptance testing
- Using stories to prioritize, set schedules, and estimate release costs
- Includes end–of–chapter practice questions and exercises
User Stories Applied will be invaluable to every software developer, tester, analyst, and manager working with any agile method: XP, Scrum... or even your own home–grown approach.
ADDISON–WESLEY PROFESSIONAL
Boston, MA 02116
www.awprofessional.com
ISBN: 0–321–20568–5
About the Author:
Author Bios
Mike Cohn is the founder of Mountain Goat Software, a process and project management consultancy and training firm. With more than twenty years of experience, Mike has been a technology executive in companies ranging from start–ups to Fortune 40s, and is a founding member of the Agile Alliance. He frequently contributes to industry–related magazines and presents regularly at conferences. He is the author of User Stories Applied (Addison–Wesley, 2004).
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