Chapter 5. The New Way to Collect and Document Requirements

Learning Objectives

• Recognize the differences between Agile and Waterfall with regard to requirements gathering and documentation

• Understand the format used within Scrum for user stories, including epics and acceptance criteria

• Explore several examples of how user stories are broken down from epics to child user stories and how acceptance criteria add important details to the story

• Learn how the other methodologies differ from Scrum in their terminology and practices

• Examine how requirements can be enhanced by using personas or engaging user experience (UX) designers to better understand potential system users

• Understand how user stories and Agile development efforts map ...

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