User Stories

Bill Wake
Presentation to U-VA Darden, Sept. 8, 2015

Bill Wake (Williamsburg, VA)

Compiler writer at DEC

Back to school (ABD) for Information Retrieval

Worked on library, phone system, bank software

Became independent XP/agile consultant (~2001)

Manager at a DNA software company (~2007)

Consultant/trainer/coach for Industrial Logic (~2009)

Why XP?
RUP

O(100) workflows
&
Dozens of documents

Lite
XP
RUP

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RUP: CC-BY-SA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RUP_Workflows2.gif ;

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WWW: free images from pixabay.com

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Why User Stories?

Traditional Requirements

User Stories
How will you use the system? (scenarios, narrative)
Search

Monolithic

Select

Basic

Cart

Fancy

Wishlist

Buy
Cr. Cards

I wrote it, so its required.

Fancier

Upsell

Driving Value

Not input to an agile team but co-create as part of an

agile team

Recognize and test assumptions (working together)

Learn the value in small increments of value and in

shipping quickly for feedback

Some reading:
The Nature of Software Development (Ron Jeffries)
User Story Mapping (Jeff Patton)
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)

Thanks!
Feel free to contact me:

william.wake@acm.org

@wwake

xp123.com

Industrial Logic