User Stories for the Product Backlog

(c) Copyright 2009 Ralf Wirdemann. All Rights Reserved.

Use Cases Jira Issues

Features Backlog Items

User Stories Prototypes

Introduction toUser Stories

Practical Group Lesson

What's  next?

Classical Product Backlog

Backlog Item 1

Backlog Item 2

Backlog Item 3

Backlog Item 4

Backlog Item 5

Backlog Item …

Recommendation:

Use User Stories

for the Product Backlog

User Story

UserStory

1. Story Card

As a Job Seeker I want to search for new Jobs.

2. Acceptance Criteria

3. Communication!

… Examples of User

Stories…

As an employer I want to post a job offer on the platform.

As a user I want to search for contacts.

As a customer I

… examples ofnon User Stories!

Refactoring the database-layers

Improvements on logging data

Automatization of the deployment

… is involved

… knows what to do… is responsible

Product Owner…

Just in Time

As a user I want to log in.

User Story Epic Theme

As a user I want to create

a profile.

Createprofile

Updateprofile

DeleteProfile

ProfileAdministration

...

Sprint Stories

Themes

Epics

July 2009

Q1 2010

2011

Q4 2010

August 2009

Requirements Workshop …

…

…

…

…

Team

Customer

Marketing

Product

Manager

Product Owner

UserUser

User

Vision UserRoles Goals UserStories

User

Requirements Workshop

Vision

We want to be the only Job Board for High Professionals.

Vision

Five Questions:

1. Who are my Customers?2. What are the Customer Needs?3. What are the essential Product Attributes?4. Who are my Competitors?

5. Timeframe and Budget

Example

PracticeVision

UserRole3UserRole1 UserRole2

Objec>ve

User Role

System Objec>ve

Objec>ve

Brainstorming

Initial Set

College Grad

First Timer

Layoff Victim

Geographic Searcher

Job Seeker

Monitor

Job Poster Resume Reader

Recruiter

Administrator

Consolidation

Geographic Searcher

First Timer

Job Seeker

Internal Recruiter

Recruiter Administrator

External Recruiter

Layoff Victim

Internal Recruiter

Will use the web and software infrequently but intensly. Will read postings from other companies to figure out how to best word the ads. Ease of use is important…

Refining

PracticeUser Role

How to define User Roles?BrainstormingOrganizing the initial set

Refine and remind

As aI want some

so that

[user role],

[goal][reason]

Some more examples…

As a Job Seeker I want to search for jobs.

As a company I want to post jobs.

As a Job Seeker i want to be automatically informed about

PracticeUser Stories

Result:Initial Product Backlog

User Story 1

User Story 2

User Story 3

User Story 4

User Story 5

User Story …

ISBN-10: 3446416560 ISBN-13: 978-3446416567

(c) Copyright 2009 Ralf Wirdemann. All Rights Reserved.

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dem Scrum Master,

dem Product Owner und

dem Team das tägliche

Arbeiten mit Scrum

erleichtert. Klar, präzise

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