How to Write User Stories
Let’s learn how to write user stories.
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Having gone through the user story mapping session, we should have a list of goals, actions, and actors.
Story template
We can use the following template to write those goals down if we’re out of ideas. The better we can describe them, the easier it will be for future readers to understand them.
As a <actor>
I want to <perform an action>
So that <I will achieve some goal>
This is the feature description. Its purpose is to remind everyone in the team of the why behind the user stories that follow. The description usually provides reason and context so that we don’t have to be too verbose in the user stories.
After the feature description is in place and provides its context, we can write the user stories. They’re ...