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User Stories Applied

For Agile Software Development (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)

By Mike Cohn

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| Paperback | 9780321205681

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User Stories (really) Applied

Indeed, Mike Cohn did a very good job at explaining user stories; many of the questions I had about user stories found their answers here, and I think I'm better at using them, now; at least, Mike gave me all the tools I needed to improve, and not only in the user stories, but in the release and ite ... (continue)

Indeed, Mike Cohn did a very good job at explaining user stories; many of the questions I had about user stories found their answers here, and I think I'm better at using them, now; at least, Mike gave me all the tools I needed to improve, and not only in the user stories, but in the release and iteration planning as well, two practices intertwined with the former. There was even a nice example which gave me more insights on all the process.</p><p>As a matter of fact, I don't like how the book is written: each chapter is divided in an introduction, a core, a general summary, a summary of developer responsibilities, a summary of customer responsibilities, and some questions; this structure makes hard to read the book from the start to the end, as I like to do.</p><p>Nonetheless, I like when Mike tells us not what we should do, but what he did, and this happens most of time; he shows us real life examples, tells short and long anecdotes to explain and expand what he said just a paragraph before; in short, he does what is often forgotten: he shows as the theory of user stories becomes the practice of user stories. And I thank him for this.

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