Buying Options

Kindle Price:	$11.99
	includes tax, if applicable

Redeem a promotion code or gift card

Share <Embed>

Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories by [Gojko Adzic, David Evans, Nikola Korac]

Follow the Authors

David Evans

Gojko Adzic

Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories Kindle Edition

by Gojko Adzic (Author), David Evans (Author), Nikola Korac (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition

189 ratings

See all formats and editions

Amazon Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$11.99

—

Paperback, Illustrated

"Please retry"

$41.00

$35.21

$25.28

This book will help you write better user stories, spot and fix common issues, split stories so that they are smaller but still valuable, and deal with difficult stuff like crosscutting concerns, long-term effects and non-functional requirements. Above all, this book will help you achieve the promise of agile and iterative delivery: to ensure that the right stuff gets delivered through productive discussions between delivery team members and business stakeholders.

Who is this book for?

This is a book for anyone working in an iterative delivery environment, doing planning with user stories. The ideas in this book are useful both to people relatively new to user stories and those who have been working with them for years. People who work in software delivery, regardless of their role, will find plenty of tips for engaging stakeholders better and structuring iterative plans more effectively. Business stakeholders working with software teams will discover how to provide better information to their delivery groups, how to set better priorities and how to outrun the competition by achieving more with less software.

Who is this book not for?

This book doesn't cover the basics of stories. We assume that readers know what Card-Conversation-Confirmation means, what INVEST is and how to apply the basic strategies for splitting user stories. This isn't the first book you should read about user stories, if those terms are unfamiliar. There are plenty of good basic books out there, so read them first and then come back. Please don't hate us because we skipped the basics, but there is only so much space in the book and other people cover the basics already well enough.

What's inside?

Unsurprisingly, the book contains exactly fifty ideas. They are grouped into five major parts:

- Creating stories: This part deals with capturing information about stories before they get accepted into the delivery pipeline. You'll find ideas about what kind of information to note down on story cards and how to quickly spot potential problems.

- Planning with stories: This part contains ideas that will help you manage the big-picture view, set milestones and organise long-term work.

- Discussing stories: User stories are all about effective conversations, and this part contains ideas to improve discussions between delivery teams and business stakeholders. You'll find out how to discover hidden assumptions and how to facilitate effective conversations to ensure shared understanding.

- Splitting stories: The ideas in this part will help you deal with large and difficult stories, offering several strategies for dividing them into smaller chunks that will help you learn fast and deliver value quickly.

- Managing iterative delivery: This part contains ideas that will help you work with user stories in the short and mid term, manage capacity, prioritise and reduce scope to achieve the most with the least software.

Each part contains ideas that we've used with teams over the last five or six years to help them manage user stories better and get more value out of iterative delivery. These ideas come from many different contexts, from large investment banks working on internal IT initiatives to small web start-ups shipping consumer software.

Print length

189 pages
Language

English
Publication date

12 October 2014
File size

8788 KB
Page Flip

Enabled
Word Wise

Not Enabled
Enhanced typesetting

Enabled
See all details

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00OGT2U7M
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Neuri Consulting LLP (12 October 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8788 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 189 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 140,604 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 32 in Software Project Management
- 51 in Computer Systems Analysis & Design (Kindle Store)
- 78 in Computer Systems Analysis & Design (Books)

Customer Reviews:
189 ratings

About the authors

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

David Evans
Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.
David Evans is an Agile Software Development coach. He provides training, strategic consulting and team coaching in the field of Agile Quality, Specification By Example, Behaviour Driven Development and Agile Product Management. Born and brought up in Australia, David currently lives and works in the UK.
See more on the author's page
Gojko Adzic
Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.
Gojko Adzic is a partner at Neuri Consulting LLP. He one of the 2019 AWS Serverless Heroes, the winner of the 2016 European Software Testing Outstanding Achievement Award, and the 2011 Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Award. Gojko’s book Specification by Example won the Jolt Award for the best book of 2012, and his blog won the UK Agile Award for the best online publication in 2010.
Gojko is a frequent speaker at software development conferences and one of the authors of MindMup and Claudia.js.
As a consultant, Gojko has helped companies around the world improve their software delivery, from some of the largest financial institutions to small innovative startups. Gojko specialises in are agile and lean quality improvement, in particular impact mapping, agile testing, specification by example and behaviour driven development.
See more on the author's page

Gojko Adzic
52
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $11.99
David Farley
134
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $38.38
Gojko Adzic
313
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $10.42
Tom Roden
54
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $11.99
Matthew Skelton
1,268
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $15.92
Jeff Patton
829
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $24.63

Customer reviews

5 star		65%
4 star		21%
3 star		10%
2 star		3%
1 star		2%

How are ratings calculated?

Review this product

Write a customer review

Top review from Australia

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

matt

Assumes no knowledge at all

Reviewed in Australia on 18 September 2020

Verified Purchase

A bit too surface level

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Douglas F.

Easy to read, thought provoking, good tips

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 December 2020

Verified Purchase

This is a really good book that is useful whether you are new to user stories or have years of experience. You might not apply all of the concepts in your current situation but it’s straightforward to assess will I use this, could I benefit from it? Some ideas may be very familiar some not so. There are some great tips and this book is a really good read for anyone irrespective of their role in a team whether that’s BAs, PMs, or Product Managers working with software projects.

Each chapter is pretty short often only a couple of pages per concept so it’s easy to read and think about it and then decide whether to continue reading or take and apply the concept discussed.

3 people found this helpful

Yonni.I

Original Ideas & Beautifully Presented

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 February 2022

Verified Purchase

This book does pretty much what it says on the tin and gives you 50 quick ideas to improve your user stories.

While the concept of user stories might be as old as the hills, a significantly large proportion of the ideas put forward are original and guide the best way of writing and delivering the content, through to the pitfalls of using story points to measure output.

The book is well structured and illustrated, which is becoming increasingly important as professional development books compete to be picked up, read and recommended.

Amazon Customer

Good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 March 2018

Verified Purchase

Great way to summarise your knowledge and do the right thing, right now.

One person found this helpful

thanhha

Great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 January 2018

Verified Purchase

Great book for BAs, PMs, or Product Managers working with software projects.

One person found this helpful

Panadero

Measuring impact and why it’s important

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 December 2018

Verified Purchase

The information in this book continues to deliver value when developing products

Buying Options

Follow the Authors

Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories Kindle Edition

Product details

About the authors

David Evans

Gojko Adzic

Customers who bought this item also bought

Customer reviews

Review this product

Top review from Australia

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries