{"id":17,"date":"2020-09-30T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.10.140.215\/?p=17"},"modified":"2025-12-04T01:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:08:19","slug":"effective-user-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesskorpen.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Effective User Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWhen your team goes home at the end of the day and they\u2019re describing what they\u2019re doing to their spouses or significant others or roommates, they should be using the language in the user story, because they\u2019re inspired by the vision you\u2019ve talked about,\u201d Skorpen said. \u201cIf people go home, and they\u2019re like, \u2018Yeah, I can\u2019t really explain it,\u2019 that\u2019s a sign the product person has failed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne thing you learn in product management really quickly is that your instinct, your precious product idea, is going to be wrong all the time,\u201d Skorpen said.<\/p>\n<cite>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/builtin.com\/product\/user-stories-examples\">9 STRATEGIES FOR WRITING MORE EFFECTIVE USER STORIES<\/a>&#8221; by Tatum Hunter, based on interviews with Lauren Hutton, Vanessa Kafka, and yours truly.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen your team goes home at the end of the day and they\u2019re describing what they\u2019re doing to their spouses or significant others or roommates, they should be using the language in the user story, because they\u2019re inspired by the vision you\u2019ve talked about,\u201d Skorpen said. \u201cIf people go home, and they\u2019re like, \u2018Yeah, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesskorpen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesskorpen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesskorpen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesskorpen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesskorpen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesskorpen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/milesskorpen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesskorpen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesskorpen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesskorpen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}