Empowered User Stories - 3C's and more *
Card, Conversation and Confirmation, namely the 3C's, are known to be the three critical components of good user stories. With Visual Paradigm, you can write user stories following the 3C's guideline, and with something more.
Besides the 3C's, you can also enrich your user stories by incorporating the elements below.
Describe how features will work by listing out the proposed user-to-system interactions as steps. You can also associate the steps with wireframes.
Create wireframes to visualize the screen layout and screen flow. We provide the wireframe tool, storyboard tool and slideshow player essential in storyboarding.
Link user stories with other design artifacts - e.g. ERD for database design, UML for system design, BPMN to show how system functionality will be integrated into business operations.
and a bit more:
Tag
Categorize user stories with tags.
History
Keep log for all changes made to user stories.
Configurable Status
Configure the user story statuses (e.g. Todo, Pending, Confirming, etc) required for specific project.
Assignee
Set the team member who are responsible to the user story.
Followers
Want to be informed about changes made to a user story? Just follow it.
Description
Document the details of user stories with the description editor.
URL reference
Add URL reference to a user story. Example usage: The testing page for acceptance testing of story.
File reference
Add supplementary files to a user story through the file reference feature.
Share-able
Share a user story with someone by sending him a URL of the user story.
Estimate user stories based on effort and risks
To include the right amount of work in a sprint is beneficial to both the project team and to end user. Two important factors to consider when choosing the right user stories are the development effort required and the risk involved.
Visual Paradigm provides you with a configurable column based or two-dimensional Affinity Table to assess and compare between user stories based on their effort and risk. Through an affinity assessment, you will obtain the story points and hours for user stories, which can be used in sprint planning.
Highlighted features of the Affinity Table:
Effort and risk assessment
Assess and place the user stories onto the table cells that represent their development effort and risk involved. Obtain both hour and story point for sprint planning.
Customizable table
You can assess stories based upon any factors you like by changing the captions for table axis. You can also change the number of rows and columns of table to fit your need.
Filter
Want to focus on user stories in particular user activity, task, release or tag(s)? The filter is there to help.
Sprint backlog management
In scrum, a sprint is a time-boxed iteration during which planned work is completed and made ready for acceptance. The sprint management interface facilitates efficient sprint planning through dragging user stories into sprint boxes. It also supports scrum master in managing multiple sprints.