What are the 5 components of a user story?

1. **Independent**: As much as possible, create user stories that are not dependent on each other. 2. **Negotiable**: Requirements keep evolving; this means we should be able to edit the user story until development work starts. 3. **Valuable**: The user story should be of value to someone — the customer, stakeholder or business folks. 4. **Estimable**: We should be able to estimate any user story played in the iteration. 5. **Small**: User stories should be small enough to reduce dependency and incrementally develop the feature. All user stories need to be: Independent: As much as possible, create user stories that are not dependent on each other. If there are dependencies in user stories, they may be combined into a single story, or play the story in such a way that it does not become a bottleneck to the team Teams should be flexible with changes If all user stories are not testable, then either the requirements aren’t clear, or we need to go back to the drawing board to make the functionality less complex Larger user stores can be split into smaller ones to make them easier to develop At the same time, there is a fine balance between being too granular or too large. Make the right decision as a team Testable: If all user stories are not testable, then either the requirements aren’t clear, or we need to go back to the drawing board to make the functionality less complex

The structure of a user story: Typically follows a simple template known as the “As a [role], I want [goal], so that [benefit]” format. Here’s a breakdown of each component: Role: This describes the user or stakeholder who will be interacting with the system or software. Goal: The goal describes what the user wants to achieve or the specific action they need to perform within the system. Benefit: The benefit explains the value or advantage that the user will gain by accomplishing the goal. It’s also worth noting that there are 5 components often cited, though they are Role, Goal, Benefit and two more - the User and the Acceptance Criteria, but for simplicity, these are commonly conflated into the role and the benefit. User stories are commonly used in Agile software development as a means of capturing and communicating requirements.

5 Key Elements of an Agile User Story ensure teams stay aligned. Key Takeaways: User-centric goal Clear acceptance criteria Testable outcomes Small & manageable Collaborative input