The User Story Lifecycle: Just Enough, Just In Time

The key to User Stories is making sure your related practices are just enough, just in time.

We'll discuss the different levels of the User Story life cycle, as well as the entrance and exit criteria for each level. More importantly, we'll discuss which levels are totally optional(many of them are) and which are absolutely vital to maximizing User Story value. We'll also follow an example story through the entire life cycle as it progresses from the request level to an epic, to themes, and finally to the legacy lifecycle level.


Charles Bradley

About Charles Bradley

Mr Bradley is an experienced Scrum Coach, Certified Scrum Professional, Certified ScrumMaster, and Certified Professional ScrumMaster I. In addition to his Scrum credentials, Mr. Bradley is also a highly capable, full lifecycle experienced, software development team lead that prefers XP for good engineering practices. He is Sun Certified in Java, and has 13 years of experience in J2EE application development across all tiers. More recently he has also picked up some good C# experience as well. In his spare time, he enjoys driving his wife crazy by talking about Scrum, especially when he refers to his “honey do” list as his “personal backlog” and asks his wife to prioritize her requests. He lives in Denver, Colorado, and he is easily found on LinkedIn.

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