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What Do User Stories Tell Us about the Business Value
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Bakalova, Zornitza Daneva, Maya |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | Introduction: What we want to study and why this is important? Although the agile methods are spreading fast in the industry and are getting increasing attention from the research community, the topic of the quality of agile requirements engineering (RE) artifacts – the so-called user stories (USs), seems to be underresearched. Advocates of agile methodologies (AMs) claim that AMs reduce waste by implementing only those requirements that bring value for the customers. For USs to help reduce waste, they should satisfy six quality criteria [Cohn], the most important one being that USs should be Valuable (to customers or users). The literature sources on AM recommend that ideally, the value should be stated explicitly on the story card. Our previously published research, however, revealed that business value evades explicit specification: we found that the business value more often than not is present only implicitly or assumed as a tacit knowledge of those involved in agile RE. Our goal in this empirical study is to get a deeper understanding of how the agile requirements, used in practice, specify business value and how agile project teams members (both customers and developers) reason about customers' value and customers' value-creation. We will analyze the agile requirements artifacts with respect to: (i) format, (ii) content, and (iii) level of granularity of the documented business value statement. The results of the study will help identify and distill good practices for writing useful USs that do support the value creation process. Well written USs with explicit value statements could help to identify unnecessary requirements and thus reduce waste for the customers. Furthermore, they can help for value-driven decisions-making on requirements priorities at inter-iteration time. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://refsq.org/2011/files/2011/03/1_Bakalova_user_stories.pdf |
| Journal | REFSQ 2011 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
