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jira user stories

Chandrasekhar V L

Hi There,

What is the purpose of jira user stories?

I need a brief explanation about the usage of user stories in jira.

Thanks,

Chandra.

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Carlos Garcia Navarro

Hi Chandra,

User stories are a concept used in Agile methodologies to represent a requirement or an activity. They are normally written from the perspective of the end user (e.g., "as a data base administrator, I want to be able to perform a database backup in less than 1h so I don't impact other software applications") and they usually contain acceptance criteria to determine when the user story can be considered done (or even better, accepted). They have other attributes, of course.

I use stories in Jira to represent activities that will normally fit in one sprint. A sprint is a time box, and in my case, a sprint is 2 weeks. Therefore, if the activity can be completed in less than 2weeks, it's sized correctly. When the stories are sized correctly (e.g.. relatively to other stories), they also help determine the velocity of the team (i.e., how many points the team can perform per sprint) which helps bring predictability. Stories can be broken down in sub-tasks, and this is useful if there are several people working on the story. The story shall contain a good description with the scope of the activity, and I normally enter acceptance criteria in the description box.