Author: Mike Cohn
Published: 2004
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
The entire business of software development (for that matter any product development) starts with a user need (whether inherent or created by innovative marketing !) which gets expressed in form of documented requirements. This holds true for both the traditional and the agile methods. But the difference lies in the way these requirements get documented. The traditional methods like waterfall method recommend a Big Requirements Up-Front (BRUF) approach where the entire set of requirements are documented by the analysts and passed on like a relay race baton to the development team. The agile methods zealously espouse the cause of short and “just enough” documentation of requirements which encourages conversation between the developers and the product stakeholders. User Stories , the subject of this book, are one such way of documenting requirements, highly recommended by most of the agilists.
Mike Cohn, the author of this book, is an oft cited authority whenever the topic of user stories arises in Agile related discussions. Here he provides a very practical approach towards effectively using User Stories in the software development projects.
If you want to know anything about the User Stories, this is the GO-TO book !
Read the book summary at Bookworm Reads:User Stories Applied
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