GuideStructuredUserStories

This Structured User Stories Guide should be borne in mind, together with the MVP Planning Guide, whenever the implementation of a feature becomes part of the currently prioritized backlog in association with a business hypothesis and its desired, testable outcome. That is, upon raising a User Story labeled issue by instantiating the User Story Template referencing one or more Persona Templates.

References:

• Jeff Gothelf, Lean UX Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience
• Laura Klein, UX for Lean Startups

Klein says:

"Lean replaces traditional user stories that can be declared “done” by a product owner with User Hypotheses that can be validated or invalidated. In other words, a feature isn’t finished when it’s shipped to a user." A feature isn't finished "until the feature has been used by customers and the results on key metrics have been measured. And even then, the feature isn’t really “finished.” It’s just ready for its next iteration."

However, Drupal Lean Process will use the term Structured User Story to mean the agile concept of user story enriched with all its associated Lean UX artifacts and workflow process elements, and we call this a (structured) user story, as detailed in #6 (User Story Template).

The ProcessWorkflow #4 shows a number of artifacts taken from Gothelf:

• Problem Statements
• Assumptions
• Hypothesis Statements
• Personas
• User Story
• Wireframe
• Living Style Guide

Instead of including these as separate issues in the backlog of a given milestone, which would lead to an excessive degree of atomization and unnecessary complexity, we will include them as part of the structure of a given User Story, with the possible exception of re-usable Personas, as references, of multiple Wireframes, as well as GitHub Flavored Markdown Task Lists, which appear as of GitHub Issues 2.

At the same time, all User Stories are recursive MVP's in themselves, so before using #6 User Story Template, be sure to familiarize yourself with #15 MVP Planning Guide first.