User S­to­ry

A user s­to­ry is a de­scrip­tion of a fea­ture as seen from the per­spec­tive of the user. It con­sist of three part­s, and is al­ways phrased like this:

As <user> I wan­t to <action> so that I <reason>

Spec­i­fy­ing the user is im­por­tan­t so we know who is go­ing to do the ac­tion, then we de­scribe the ac­tion so we know what they would like to do, and then fi­nal­ly we ask why, so that we can un­der­stand the in­ten­t of the user.

One exam­ple of this is

As a stu­den­t I wan­t to have con­stan­t feed­back so that I use the feed­back to im­prove.

Here we learn that the stu­den­t wan­t to have a fea­ture that can give them con­stan­t feed­back, we can use the rea­son to see if we can de­liv­er some­thing that is close to their goal but stil­l cap­tures their in­ten­t.