Story
Stories act as a ‘pidgin language,’ where both sides (users and developers) can agree enough to work together effectively.
—Bill Wake, co-inventor of Extreme Programming
Stories are short descriptions of a small piece of desired functionality, written in the user’s language. Agile Teams implement small, vertical slices of system functionality and are sized so they can be completed in a single Iteration.
Stories are the primary artifact used to define system behavior in Agile. They’re not requirements, but rather short, simple descriptions of functionality usually told from the user’s perspective and written in the user’s language. Each story ...
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