Monday 4 November 2013

User Stories too long? Split them!

If a story is too long, break it down in smaller stories.

But what is to be considered a big story? And how to split it in a way that is logical?

Here's a very interesting roadmap one can use to break stories using a logical approach:
http://agileforall.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Story-Splitting-Flowchart.pdf

Further reading about breaking User Stories can be found here:
http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2011/05/01/splitting-user-stories/
http://www.richardlawrence.info/2009/10/28/patterns-for-splitting-user-stories/
http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/04/how-to-split-user-stories

Enjoy! :)

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