User Story

A key part of the Extreme Programming Planning Game (and other steps). Similar to a UseCase, but different.

WikiWikiWeb:UserStory.

Alistair Cockburn pithily notes that a User Story is not a fully documented requirement, but "a promise to have a conversation with the Onsite Customer".

• originally written on StoryCard, with space limitations encouraging splitting stories to make them smaller
  • Bernd Eckenfels: I'm biased. But my rational answer is that I want to avoid technologies that give people an excuse not to sit together.
    • not great with Remote/distributed teams
• Hmm, is this a form of StoryTelling? Maybe, but should not be aiming to excite/amuse/persuade the reader!

Jul'2003: userstories.com This site is intended for general discusson of the role of user stories on agile projects and for specific discussion about Mike Cohn's book in progress, User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development .

http://pivotallabs.com/well-formed-stories/