So what is good about user stories?
- They help bring user needs to life. They focus our attention on specific scenarios of use
- They expand on personas
- They help developers prioritise their work
- They introduce business and technical requirements in the form of conditions of satisfaction and constraints
- The INVEST acronym is a really good set of guidelines for writing effective stories.
- They focus on user needs not UI elements, though it is argued that UI elements can feature as the project moves on. I guess that is fine if user stories refer to elements already built and therefore need to be taken into consideration.
I will definitely recommend using user stories. They are more focused than user scenarios and make the leap from conceptualising a solution to actually building it. I am still really concerned that a lack of user insights prior to writing user stories could make the whole exercise pointless.
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