Effective User StoriesThe case of Shrek

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Effective User StoriesThe case of Shrek

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(WHO) SHREK (IN WHAT ROLE) HERO

(MOTIVE) RESCUE PRINCESS

(DID

WHAT) IM

PRISONED DRAGON

(USING WHAT) INTELLIGENCE, LUCK, DONKEY

(IN WHAT CONTEXT) CLIFFS/LEDGES/LAVA/THREAT OF

CAPTURE, ETC

Starts with the Hero Shrek

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(Business Benefit) Happily ever after

Who?In What Role?

Did What?Using What?

In what Context?For what Benefit?

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Effective User Stories

But we don’t have access to our customers

This is a new product, it doesn’t have users

Can’t we just put these textfields here for now and think about the users later?

The architecture doesn’t support that, so can we just make it pretty?

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