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cs4140: User Stories

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A user story is a thing a user wants to do that the developers can build reasonably quickly (i.e. before the next meeting).

  • Title
  • Estimate (story points)
  • Tasks

Description #

As a [what kind of user],
I want to [action / task],
So that [benefit]

When I [action]
This happens: [outcome]

Epic #

An epic is a user story too big to complete in one sprint, which is split up into a bunch of user stories.

Techniques to split a user story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_xQKX_x5Hs