I would say that user stories are created tounderstand how much time it takes
to develop the stories or the tasks. They arecreated by clients or the
development team and contain a short description ofwhat the system or the
product should do. The list of user stories collectedwill be used for
d
Personas are psycho-social profiles of users. User stories are
reflections of actual tasks that the persona would want to accomplish.
So users stories can be thought of as refinements of the persona. User
stories have details like acceptance tests that are associated with
them, a priority etc.
On
Hi Oliver,
Manish Pillewar kirjoitti 26.2.2008 kello 12:33:
> The persona: A close representative of the user
Indeed. Here's how I've been taught to use them:
A persona describes CURRENT behavior, with the CURRENT product or
service or its nearest equivalent. Understanding and accepting how
Hi Oliver,
I find this easy to define as:
The persona: A close representative of the user
The User Story: What the persona would do to complete
a specific task
In that I definitely find them related. If the persona
is defined from a good user research done ahead, doing
the user stories ( using t
Oliver,
User stories and personas are not mutually exclusive. A persona
embodies high-level information about a user type/role/segment, while
a user story represents a specific requirement/task formulated from a
user's perspective.
Both can be used to as a means of feeding information obtained th
Hi John,
I meant (b) "b) User stories - a means of writing software
requirements often used in Extreme programming and other software
engineering methods."
It is being used for gathering user needs.
Thanks,
Oliver
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Hi Oliver,
when you say user stories, do you mean:
a) Scenarios - narratives that describe some user doing something in
the system.
b) User stories - a means of writing software requirements often used
in Extreme programming and other software engineering methods.
They are quite different things,
Hi All,
>From what I understand it seems like user stories are a subset of user
personas - how do they differ? when is one more appropriate to use than the
other?
Thanks,
Oliver
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