Generating User Stories in Groups with Prompts

Aaron Read, Andy Callens, Cuong D. Nguyen, Gert Jan De Vreede

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Abstract

Communicating about system requirements with user stories is a distinctive feature of Agile Software Development methods. While user stories make system requirements intelligible to both customers and technical developers, they also create new challenges for the requirements elicitation process such as personal bias and requirements coverage. In this study we propose that when elicited from groups instead of individuals, and with prompts, the number of stories generated and comprehensiveness of the stories is likely to increase. A lab experiment was conducted to examine these hypotheses is delineated in this paper. We found that prompting significantly increased the number of user stories generated as well as the comprehensiveness of the stories generated. We did not find a difference in user stories generated or comprehensiveness of stories generated by groups and individuals.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication17th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2011, AMCIS 2011
StatePublished - 2011
Event17th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2011, AMCIS 2011 - Detroit, MI, United States
Duration: 4 Aug 20118 Aug 2011

Publication series

Name17th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2011, AMCIS 2011
Volume4

Conference

Conference17th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2011, AMCIS 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDetroit, MI
Period4/08/118/08/11

Keywords

  • Agile Software Development
  • group story-telling
  • Requirements elicitation
  • user stories

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