by Angela Hathaway | Aug 15, 2022 | User Stories, Validation and Acceptance Testing
In my previous post, The Everything User Story Guide: Tips and Tricks for Writing Better Requirements, I touched briefly on writing Acceptance Criteria. This time, I will go further in-depth and give you some tips on how to write good ones. Let me start by answering...
by Angela Hathaway | Aug 15, 2022 | Requirements Analysis, User Stories
Getting from a business need to working software is a treacherous journey. That road is filled with potholes, dangerous curves, and dead ends. The number of decisions that must be made is mind-numbing and any wrong decision can derail the entire software development...
by Angela & Tom Hathaway | Aug 15, 2022 | Requirements Gathering, User Stories
In the world of technology, we have been arguing about the term “requirements” since the dawn of the computer age. Every business analyst, project manager, and software developer has their own view of requirements. Some of us love them, some of us hate...
by Angela Hathaway | Aug 15, 2022 | Agile Business Analysis, User Stories
In my post, The Everything User Story Guide: Tips and Tricks for Writing Better Requirements, I touched on Splitting User Stories and promised a post that expands on this topic. Here it is. To split or not to split – that is not a question that is easily answered. In...
by Thomas Hathaway | Aug 15, 2022 | User Stories, Validation and Acceptance Testing
You got the hang of the User Story format “As a <user>, I want <x> because <y>”, but that was just the beginning. Now it is time to flesh out your Acceptance Criteria or—GULP—write Acceptance Tests. Gherkin to the rescue! What is Gherkin? The Gherkin...
by Angela & Tom Hathaway | Aug 15, 2022 | Agile Business Analysis, User Stories
What Are User Stories? What Are Requirements? User Story Structure The User Story Format The INVEST Model User Story Elaboration Facilitation Skills User Story Splitting Acceptance Criteria Functional Requirements Functional Decomposition User Acceptance Testing Story...
by Angela Hathaway | Jul 21, 2021 | FREE training videos, User Stories
How to Rightsize / Split User Stories by Sequence of Events Identify the fewest number of business events that create a specific business value to break up a User Story or Epic FREE Author: Tom and Angela HathawayVideo Duration: 4:56 minutes This KnowledgeKnugget™ is...
by Angela Hathaway | Jun 29, 2021 | FREE training videos, User Stories
Write Given-When-Then (GWT) Scenarios Based on Business Rules Acceptance Criteria stated as business rules make it easy to identify critical Scenarios or Scenario Outlines for Acceptance Testing FREE Author: Tom and Angela Hathaway Video Duration: 7:13 minutes This...
by Angela Hathaway | Jun 14, 2021 | FREE training videos, User Stories
What Are User Story Acceptance Criteria? Benefits and purpose of Conditions of Satisfaction in User Stories FREE Author: Tom and Angela HathawayVideo Duration: 4:55 minutes This KnowledgeKnugget™ is part of this eCourse There are many forms for expressing Acceptance...