Jeff Patton, Consultant, AgileProductDesign.com, Salt Lake City, UT

Writing good user stories is one of the most misunderstood and challenging aspects of agile development. In this fast-paced hands on tutorial we’ll bust myths about user stories and leave you with a useful approach for writing and leveraging user stories. You’ll learn the essentials of user-centric story writing, and how to organize your stories into a map that makes sense of your entire backlog. You’ll learn tricks for planning usable and valuable incremental releases, and steering them to successful delivery.

About Jeff

Jeff Patton specializes in the application of user experience design practice to improve Agile requirements, planning, and products. Jeff discovered his agile roots in 2000 on his first XP project. They’ve been growing aggressively since then. Jeff is founder and list moderator of the agile-usability Yahoo discussion group, a columnist with StickyMinds.com and IEEE Software, and winner of the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award for contributions to Agile Development. He is the author of the blog www.AgileProductDesign.com and a forthcoming book on Agile product design to be released in Addison-Wesley’s Agile Development series.