User Stories

User stories are an integral part of Agile but how come?

When I was first introduced to the idea of using user stories in a commercial environment I didn’t really know what they were. I’d seen some other people using them and noticed that they seemed to be a breakdown of what was needed for a given system and then the developers would pick up one story at a time and work on it. “Marvelous!” I thought, but what’s the point?

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