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The Art of Crafting User Stories

By : Christopher Lee
Book Image

The Art of Crafting User Stories

By: Christopher Lee

Overview of this book

The Art of Crafting User Stories is a must-read for product managers, UX professionals, and product developers dedicated to creating meaningful digital experiences. This book provides a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to empower you to master the techniques for creating user stories that drive effective product development. This book takes you on a journey from identifying and capturing user needs, goals, and perspectives through user stories, to crafting impactful stories for design choices and organizing tasks efficiently. You’ll learn how to define the problem area, recognize user personas, and develop user scenarios with the aid of real-world examples, practical tips, and exercises designed to help you develop your skills in crafting user-centered experiences. Moreover, you’ll gain a thorough understanding of user stories, their role in Agile development, and how to use them to plan and manage products effectively. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to improve the quality and efficiency of your own products by applying the hands-on practical skills to create compelling digital experiences that resonate with users and stay relevant in the market.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

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Lyssa Adkins is an Agile and professional coach, facilitator, teacher, and inspirer. Her current focus is on improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Making difficult decisions faster and with clear alignment, unknotting challenging multi-department impediments, creating the conditions for smooth organizational delivery, and helping leaders take up the Agile transformation that is theirs to make…this is where Lyssa thrives and helps others to thrive.

I would be interested in hearing your take on the whole philosophical shift from requirements to user stories, why that was so important, and the impact of user stories.

I think of Agile practices as patterns that interrupt unconscious learned behavior. I have a deep familiarity with project requirements from my 15 years of experience as a project manager and a project management office lead. During this time, I was often...