The User Story format

The following figure shows an example User Story that you may recognize from earlier in the book. There are three sections to it, shown as follows:

The basic template we're using for this User Story is:

  • As an <actor> I want <some action> so that I get <some value>

We can either define the actor as an actual person, "Kimesha, a cinema-goer", or as a persona, "a Cinema-Goer." The subtle difference between the two is just the name "Kimesha", but this can be surprisingly humanizing. A real person like Kimesha is far easier to picture in our mind's eye, and so we're less likely to objectify our customer when we're building ...

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