User Stories
By!Dean!Leffingwell!
!!with!Pete!Behrens!
Note: This whitepaper is an earlier work by the primary authors Dean Leffingwell and Pete
Behrens. It provides an overview on the derivation and application of user stories, which are
the primary mechanism that carries customer’s requirements through the agile software
development value stream. This paper is extracted from the book Agile Software
Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs and the Enterprise.
A special thanks to Jennifer Fawcett and Don Widrig for their contributions as well.