.. _user-stories:

User Stories
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Any large project must be broken down into smaller tasks. This is particularly true for software projects. Furthermore, *how* we break down and define smaller tasks has a large impact on how successful we are in creating good, useful software. 

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A **user story** is a concise, well-defined description of the *outcome* of a task. It specifices the *who*, *what*, and *why* of a given feature.

Read the following articles about user stories:

* `What Is a User Story? <https://www.leadingagile.com/2012/07/user-story/>`_
* `An Introduction to User Story Mapping <https://manifesto.co.uk/user-story-mapping/>`_
* `10 Tips for Writing Good User Stories <https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/10-tips-writing-good-user-stories/>`_