| OverviewAgile requirements: discovering what your users really want.
With this book, you will learn to:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thoroughly reviewed and eagerly anticipated by the agile
community, User Stories Applied offers a requirements
process that saves time, eliminates rework, and leads directly to
better software. The best way to build software that meets users' needs is to
begin with "user stories": simple, clear, brief descriptions of
functionality that will be valuable to real users. In User
Stories Applied, Mike Cohn provides you with a front-to-back
blueprint for writing these user stories and weaving them into your
development lifecycle. You'll learn what makes a great user story, and what makes a bad
one. You'll discover practical ways to gather user stories, even
when you can't speak with your users. Then, once you've compiled
your user stories, Cohn shows how to organize them, prioritize
them, and use them for planning, management, and testing. User Stories Applied will be invaluable to every software
developer, tester, analyst, and manager working with any agile
method: XP, Scrum... or even your own home-grown approach. ADDISON-WESLEY PROFESSIONAL Boston, MA 02116 www.awprofessional.com ISBN: 0-321-20568-5 Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionThe concept of user stories has its roots as one of the main tenets of Extreme Programming. In simple terms, user stories represent an effective means of gathering requirements from the customer (roughly akin to use cases). This book describes user stories and demonstrates how they can be used to properly plan, manage, and test software development projects. The book highlights both successful and unsuccessful implementations of the concept, and provides sets of questions and exercises that drive home its main points. After absorbing the lessons in this book, readers will be able to introduce user stories in their organizations as an effective means of determining precisely what is required of a software application. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 44 reviews. Excellent introduction to the best technique of capturing users' requirements, 2009-04-17 Reviewer rating: For those that need a quick introduction into "Agile methodology" - this is the book to start with.
It details the basics of interviewing, clarifying and capturing users' requirements in a true agile fashion.
The book then proceeds with describing the necessary interaction between the development team and the users / users' representatives (expert domains). Great job in providing a succinct analysis of the differences between the User Stories methodology and the IEEE software specifications as well as the Use Case technique.
Excellent examples accompany the theory.
The only problem is that User Stories is only a part (albeit an important one) in the Agile Methodology. The writer realizes the need to provide the basic principles of Agile but this part feels like a half baked effort to grow the book into something bigger than initially planned. | Solid practical and philosophical overview of agile methods, 2008-12-21 Reviewer rating: I bought this book in order to prepare for a transition to agile on our development team. I found it a good mix of theoretical background for the agile processes but also having plenty of good, practical advice. Plus, it is written well. | Great explanation of how to apply stories in real life, 2008-12-17 Reviewer rating: This book does an excellent job explaining what stories are, how to use them, and how to deal with the nasty edge cases that may trip up any team trying to apply user stories to their own projects. | Good Advice for Beginners and Experts, 2008-10-11 Reviewer rating: This book provides excellent insight into the story driven process, with immediately actionable advice. Cohn clearly describes the advantages of stories, and explains how to develop quality systems that deliver value to the user. Anyone operating in, or hoping to adopt an iterative and incremental methodology will benefit from reading this piece. | Well-written, practical advice, 2008-07-17 Reviewer rating: This book is one of the better collections of how-to's and practical applications I've read on Agile user stories. It mixes in just enough of the theory to understand the importance and distinctions of epics, stories, tasks, and spikes without overly focusing on them. Then, it uses real-world examples in common language to walk you through some of the messier implementations of Agile, and provides specific guidance on how to make things work in less than ideal situations. I found this book particularly helpful for me personally, as well as for one of our less experienced Scrum Master's at work. |
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