Chapter 6Gathering User Stories

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In Part III we are going to get into the basics of agile planning: user stories, estimation, and adaptive planning.

By learning how to gather requirements as user stories, you will see how agile plans are always kept up-to-date, contain only the latest and greatest information, and avoid one of the greatest wastes our industry has ever known—premature up-front analysis.

Let’s start by looking at how we used to gather requirements and some of the challenges that come with trying to write everything down.

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