A story about User Stories; What are they and why do you need them? 

In this new series of posts, I’m going to share my personal experiences while working with user stories for gathering, tracking and planning requirements.

So let me start with a definition. The ideal user story represents an independent, estimable and prioritizable functional or non-functional requirement, is written in the language of the business and adds value to the project or system. That’s it? Well no, it’s not that easy unfortunately, but I promise you will get a whole lot closer after reading this article (or run away screaming with more questions than you started with).

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