AMAZING Stories Are Worth The INVESTment!

AMAZING Stories Are Worth The INVESTment! 

Bill Wake came up with a formula for writing perfect Agile Stories called INVEST: 

• Independent: The user story should be self-contained and not dependent on other stories.
• Negotiable: The details of the story can be negotiated and refined during the development process.
• Valuable: The story must provide value to the end user or customer.
• Estimable: The story must be clear enough for the team to estimate the effort required to implement it.
• Sized Appropriately: The story should be small enough to be completed in a single sprint or iteration.
• Testable: The story should have clear acceptance criteria that can be used to verify when it is done.

Join V. Lee Henson as we discuss some of the more fine details around this model.