Comments on: Refining User Stories https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/refining-user-stories/ Expert Training & Consulting in Agile Product Management Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:05:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Roman Pichler https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/refining-user-stories/#comment-1725 Fri, 28 Sep 2018 13:15:34 +0000 http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/?p=621#comment-1725 In reply to Fredrik Holmberg.

Thanks for your comment Frederik. While I agree that stories should be independent, I find that’s not always possible in practice. Similarly, I don’t think that every single user story has to provide value on its own–again that’s often impossible. But you should ensure that every story either serves a user or a business goal. If that’s the case, then I consider the story valuable. Hope this helps!

]]> By: Fredrik Holmberg https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/refining-user-stories/#comment-1724 Fri, 28 Sep 2018 09:36:59 +0000 http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/?p=621#comment-1724 Thanks for this! Am i correct that in the case of epics, we do not try to preserve the independence of User Stories. “State Subject” is not independent from the others, and it is not clear how it would deliver value until the whole epic is released. Here it seems that we are saying “Thats fine, because even the smallest solution to this Story is too big to be delivered independently”.

]]> By: Roman Pichler https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/refining-user-stories/#comment-1723 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:55:06 +0000 http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/?p=621#comment-1723 In reply to Koushik Mitra.

It’s a shared responsibility in Scrum. Product owner and development team collaborate and refine the user stories together. Please see my articles “The Product Backlog Grooming Steps” and “When should Product Backlog Grooming Take Place?” for more info.

]]> By: Koushik Mitra https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/refining-user-stories/#comment-1722 Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:15:23 +0000 http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/?p=621#comment-1722 Who is responsible to refine the user stories? PO or the Entire team?

]]> By: Roman Pichler https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/refining-user-stories/#comment-1721 Mon, 06 Nov 2017 08:50:07 +0000 http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/?p=621#comment-1721 In reply to Dalton Hooper.

Hi Dalton,

Thanks for asking the question. As the product backlog only contains outstanding work, bigger user stories are replaced by smaller ones. Hope this helps!

]]> By: Dalton Hooper https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/refining-user-stories/#comment-1720 Sat, 04 Nov 2017 16:16:05 +0000 http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/?p=621#comment-1720 I am curious as to what happens to the “intermediate” user stories (i.e., the ones decomposed from the epic, yet get further decomposed themselves)?

My assumption is that those user stories are actually go away and are replaced by the resultant stories from their decomposition. Is that correct?

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