Epics and Personas – Part 5

DEVELOPING EPICS AND USER STORIES

An epic is a very large user story that would not be able to be delivered in one sprint. A user story is designed to be delivered within one sprint and should be something that could stand alone in production, even if the desire is that the entire epic is delivered. The user stories are the actual details that drive delivery in a sprint. Testers in the agile projects participate in the refinement of epics into user stories with a particular understanding of the prioritisation of testing and the complexities involved in each user story. It is the responsibility of the product owner to communicate the features that will be refined. User stories are inputs to the tests that the scrum team will execute.

Refining epics into user stories can involve multiple methods:

Interviews with users
Workshops
Document and System Analysis and
Observing the “day in the life”

An important part of refining user stories is defining the personas that will be key to the use of the new product. Personas are created to define user roles that focus the development of epics. The creation of personas is an important tool to aide testers in developing scenarios that will model the use of a new product.

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An Introduction to Agile Project Management (Product Owner)
The 12 Agile Principles (Product Owner)
The Declaration of Interdependence (Product Owner)
Introduction to Scrum (Product Owner)
Scrum Project Roles (Product Owner)
The Agile Project Life-cycle (Product Owner)
Acceptance Criteria and the Prioritised Product Backlog (Product Owner)
Epics and Personas (Product Owner)
Sprint Planning (Product Owner)
User Stories (Product Owner)
The Daily Scrum (Product Owner)
The Product Backlog (Product Owner)
Scrum Charts (Product Owner)
Review and Retrospective (Product Owner)
Validating a Sprint (Product Owner)
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