Four horsemen of user stories

Have a seat, introduce yourself to people around you and share with
them one thing you know and one thing you want to learn about
user stories

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© 2019 Linda Fung & Anil Jaising
What
brings you to
our session?
FOUR HORSEMEN OF USER STORIES

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What is the goal of
product backlog
refinement
and who attends?

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Speaker and Trainer
Teach Scrum Master and
Product Owner course
Martial Arts
Instructor
Anil Jaising
anil@nimblebydesign.com
@aniljaising
https://www.linkedin.com/in/
aniljaising/

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ØAgile Enablement Squad at EQH
ØScrum Master & Aspiring trainer
ØSocial Media Manager for Family owned restaurant
ØTwitter: @lunafung10
Linda (Luna) Fung

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User Stories – Why Does Conversation Matter?
Soup or salad and bread
Not core scrum

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(Soup) or (salad and bread)
Not core scrum

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(Soup or salad) and (bread)
Not core scrum

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So Many Questions Come to Mind
From: User story mapping by Jeff Patton

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MYTH or FACT?
Product Owner writes User Story and gets it to ready state
MYTH
Creating and refining User Stories is a Team Sport.
Anyone can contribute to a user story

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Not in the scrum guide
Ron Jeffries And The 3 C’s
Four Horsemen of User Stories
C
C
C
ARD
ONVERSATION
ONFIRMATION

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Given I am a traveler that has a hotel booking, when I cancel my booking
Acceptance criteria:
üThen a premium member can cancel the same day without a fee
üThen a non-premium member is charged 10% for a same day cancellation
üThen an email confirmation is sent
üThen the hotel is notified of any cancellation
Product Backlog Refinement Simulation
FOUR HORSEMENT OF USER STORIES
User? Cancel? Fee? Notification? Confirmation?
P Y 0 Y Y
NP Y

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How Cucumber Works?
Source: Cucumber for Java Book by Seb Rose, Aslak Hellesoy and Matt Wynne

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How Cucumber Works?

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How Cucumber Works?
§ Features
§ The glue - Step definitions
§ Implementation
§ Automation library

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MYTH or FACT?
User story is part of Scrum
MYTH
User Story originate from Extreme Programming (XP).
Ken Beck was the one who introduced and coined the term.

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Techniques of Splitting User Stories

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There Are Many Approaches...
by Mike Cohnby Gojko Adzic by Richard Lawrence

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Let’s Start with Chris Sim’s Approach

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Conjunctions & Connector Words
Words which connect words, phrases, clauses or sentences are called conjunctions
AND
OR As Well As

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As a couple planning a vacation for our family,
we want to be able to book a trip where there are
romantic activities for us, fun activities for our super
hyper children, as well as relaxing activities for our
hard-to-please parents,
so that we can all enjoy our vacation.

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As a couple planning a vacation for our family, we want to be able to book
a trip where there are romantic activities for us so we can rekindle our
love connection.
AND
As a couple planning a vacation for our family, we want to be able to
book a trip where there are fun activities for our super hyper children
so we can ensure they are busy having fun while we can relax and
gain some sanity.
AND
As a couple planning a vacation for our family, we want to be able to book
a trip where there are relaxing activities for our hard-to please parents, so
we can make them happy and they can leave us alone.

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Acceptance Criteria
As a couple,
we want to be able to book a romantic get-away to an exotic location with
flexible dates so we can rekindle our love connections and fall in love all over
again.
Here are some acceptance criteria for this story:
•Search location by countries
•Sort trips by cost
•Hotels that offer massage and spa services for couples
•Search available activities of location selected

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Acceptance Criteria
As a couple booking a romantic trip,
we want to be able to search trip location by countries so we can have more options to choose from.
AND
As a couple who has financial sense, we want to be able to find trips that offer the best value
so we don’t break the bank while enjoying our vacation at the same time.
AND
As a couple who needs to decompress, we want to find hotels that offer massage
and spa service for couples so we can have a truly relaxing experience.
AND
As a couple, we want to see popular activities offer in the location we selected
so we don’t get bored staring at each other.

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Exercise
1. Turn to page 2 & 3 in the handout on the table
2. Work as a group (3 - 4 people) to split one of the
user stories
3. Use the index cards to write the stories (one
story per card)

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Group Share

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Richard Lawrence’s 9 Patterns...
1. Workflow Steps
2. Business Rule Variation
3. Major Effort
4. Simple/Complex
5. Variation in Data
6. Data Entry Methods
7. Defer Performance
8. Operations (e.g., CRUD)
9. Breakout a Spike

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Workflow Steps
… I can post the blog directly
… I can post the blog with user committee review
… I can post the blog with editor review
As an user, I want to publish a travel blog with photos to
the duckytour.com website

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Variation in Data
As an user of duckytour.com whose first language is
not English, I want to be able to search the site and
complete my tour booking in other languages
…in English
…in Japanese
…in Chinese
…in Dutch
…in Galantic

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Exercise
1. Turn to page 4 in the handout on the table
2. Work as a group (3 – 4 people) to split one of the
user stories
3. Use the index cards to write the stories (one
story per card)

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Group Share

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MYTH or FACT?
MYTH
Estimation can be in hours only for effort. Risk and
Complexity can only be relative
Estimation can be in hours

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ESTIMATION
Risk + Complexity + Effort

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I N V E S T
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N
V
E
S
T ESTABLE
MALL
STIMABLE
ALUABLE
EGOTIABLE
NDEPENDENT

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