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Keep the user at the center

Keep the user at the center

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Keep the user at the center

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- User stories are not about a screen, a button, a pic box, a data field, a file, or anything technical. They are about the user's story. To succeed, keep the user at the center of your user stories. Why do we need to do this? Well, keeping the user at the center creates transparency in that everyone understands exactly what the team is working on. The team will have the same understanding of why the user story is important and who benefits from it. Also, the impact analysis, that is the impact of the story on other users and processes, becomes much easier. Then testing becomes much easier as well. Next, and my favorite reason, is that it allows business leaders, product owners, and the team to prioritize quickly and effectively. How do we get to a user at the center of the story? For each user story you write, first identify the end user. Identifying the end user helps keep us away from poor user story practices that might look like this. As a developer, I need to put a button on the…

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