Scrum Agile Project Management

Requirement Specification vs User Stories

This video explores what makes good requirements and how agile user stories help to improve the quality of requirements, whatever the nature of our software development.

What are software requirements and how do they relate to the Scrum user stories? Is it requirement vs user story, or user story as requirement? An important part of agile software development is its user or customer focus. Our aim as software developers is to deliver outcomes that our users want or need. To do that it is vital to focus our work on the outcomes that matter to our users. Actually, this is true of any software development, agile or not. Requirements are often used to define the steps to deliver a solution, this is a big mistake. Deciding what our system needs to do is a difficult problem. Designing software well is a difficult problem too. We should avoid trying to solve these two difficult problems together in a single step, by conflating requirements with design.

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