Comments on: From Personas to User Stories

By: Roman Pichler

Roman Pichler — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 07:28:25 +0000

Hi Ashish, Thanks for sharing your question. You can find a sample epic in the article “Epics and User Stories”. Hope this helps!

By: Ashish Katariya

Ashish Katariya — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 04:31:46 +0000

Hi Roman,

Can you share some examples on how to write epic ?

By: Josh Way

Josh Way — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:35:46 +0000

In reply to Chuk.

^ This ^

By: Chuk

Chuk — Mon, 22 May 2017 11:26:36 +0000

In reply to Roman Pichler.

I totally agree. Personas are about user models. The project sponsor is your major stakeholder and an analysis of them would have been captured in your stakeholder analysis.

By: Roman Pichler

Roman Pichler — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:36:17 +0000

In reply to Don.

Nope, sorry. Why would this be useful please?

By: Don

Don — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 12:38:03 +0000

Roman, have you ever established governance around defined personas?

By: Roman Pichler

Roman Pichler — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:38:45 +0000

In reply to John Durgin.

Hi John, Thanks for your comment. I understand where you are coming from but I don’t agree. While the sponsor is an important stakeholder, personas are user models and should capture the people who will use and buy the product. A product’s success ultimately depends on how well it meets the needs (or goals) of the users and customers. If people don’t find it beneficial then the product is unlikely to achieve its business goals, such as meeting a revenue or profitability target, selling another product or service, saving cost, or enhancing the brand equity.

By: John Durgin

John Durgin — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:11:34 +0000

It seems to me that the first persona to develop would be the project sponsor. This is the person who has made the difficult decision to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to solve a business problem. If you don’t capture that decision process and motivation you may miss the mark entirely. It must define a theme for the whole project. This is also the stakeholder who will be least available for input. Generally we see highly developed personas for end users, and while their interaction with the system is important, their understanding of the high-level problem to be solved is often limited.

By: Roman Pichler

Roman Pichler — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:23:15 +0000

In reply to Viva. Hi Viva, You may want to try my persona template to describe your personas: http://www.romanpichler.com/tools/persona-template/ Hope this helps.

By: Viva

Viva — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 08:40:07 +0000

Hi Roman
Please what modelling language can be used to describe a persona? or the requirements of a persona including the picture.
if not, what do you think the solution can be?