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This book will help you write better 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. 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. About the authors: Gojko Adzic is a strategic software delivery consultant who works with ambitious teams to improve the quality of their software products and processes. Gojko's book Specification by Example was awarded the #2 spot on the top 100 agile books for 2012 and won the Jolt Award for the best book of 2012. In 2011, he was voted by peers as the most influential agile testing professional, and his blog won the UK agile award for the best online publication in 2010. David Evans is a consultant, coach and trainer specialising in the field of Agile Quality. David helps organisations with strategic process improvement and coaches teams on effective agile practice. He is regularly in demand as a conference speaker and has had several articles published in international journals.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Neuri Consulting LLP; Illustrated edition (October 15, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 124 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0993088104
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0993088100
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.34 x 8.5 inches

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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.
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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.
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Deryl Spielman

Great ideas with concrete ways to implement them.

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2015

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There are tons of ideas on how to use user stories in your development process and goes in to somewhat detail on how to implement it. It definitely assumes you are doing some iterative development but my team is doing Kanban so I wish it talked more about how it fits in to that flow based system. It does mention Kanban a few times, however.

Overall I found it very useful in figuring out how to break down user stories, apply impact mapping and goals along with user stories, how to measure through rolling average time analysis and T-shirt sizes instead of story points, and comes with examples of how Gojko's teams have done so.

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David Snook

Pithy and to the point, helps you write great user stories.

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2015

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Great ideas to make user stories meaningful, point to the real value your users want, and fit into an iteration.

I enjoyed the format, which is a lot like software design patterns -- there is a context that describes the problem, a brief description of the solution, and then a section that shows how to apply the solution, along with warnings for when the solution may not be applicable.

The book is quite slim, but as I read it I had a sense that the authors had gone to great lengths to cut each idea down to its essential elements. I also got the sense that the experience (evidence) behind each idea is considerably deeper than each brief synopsis might imply. I suppose they could have piled on the evidence and written a much heavier tome, but it wouldn't necessarily have been more convincing because in the end you have to try these out for yourself to see if they will work for you. I appreciated the effort they put into getting right to each point.

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Francisco

Very good book

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2019

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Its a good bock that explains in a practical way how to get better results from agility from the use of user stories. It explains very power tool and conceps that today very much companies should consider. For example the validation of outcome with real users, between a lot of other powerfull concepts.

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2019

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An easy read. For anyone doing Agile development the concept of the ‘User Story‘ is easy to understand, but very difficult to do well. This book can help with understanding how to make better User Stories.

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Michael J Balke

Creative ways to write, split, and estimate user stories.

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2015

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Although I have been writing user stories for over five years, Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories augmented my ability to write more descriptive user stories resulting in easier estimation. The second section which discusses Splitting User stories also provided me additional insight into some creative ways that I never thought of. One of the last parts of the book suggests two ways of estimating stories that I never heard of and make sense. I plan to use practically everything I learned from reading this book. I strongly recommend this easy reading book for anyone who writes, splits, and/or estimates user stories.

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Kim Buchsen

I highly recommend this for all Agilists - Product Owners

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2014

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Definitely worth reading. If you have some experience with User Stories but want to become more proficient, this is the book for you. I highly recommend this for all Agilists - Product Owners, ScrumMasters, Dev Team members and anyone interested in iterative development. I plan on incorporating some of Gojko's ideas into my User Story training material.

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Rishi

Practical book on user stories

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2020

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This is an awesome book that has some really neat practical tips on user stories and helps avoid some major pitfalls

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Jim

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2017

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Douglas F.

Easy to read, thought provoking, good tips

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2020

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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.

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Yonni.I

Original Ideas & Beautifully Presented

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2022

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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.

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Good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 2, 2018

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

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thanhha

Great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 16, 2018

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