Job Stories - The Better User Story?

This was posted on our company blog and on my twitter @till_carlos/status/1485100194576441346

1/ Situation: You hired a UX designer, and they asked for specs.

Now what?

Are user stories the best way to communicate with them?

Possibly. What about some alternatives?

Let’s quickly recap the user story.

Everyone knows it – but let’s define it again.

As a [stakeholder], I want to [action] so that [desired outcome].

h/t to @hygger_app, tweet

User Journeys

Write a user journey: focuses a user persona and how the use the product.

You then describe where the user touches the product. And what they user feels along the way.

@didgeoridoo has a good resource on it (screenshot attached) https://www.appcues.com/blog/user-journey-map over att the @Appcues blog

Job Stories

“When _____ , I want to _____ , so I can _____ .”

…interesting approach. Can you tell my why this is better than a user story? https://jtbd.info/replacing-the-user-story-with-the-job-story-af7cdee10c27

Problem Stories https://medium.com/serious-scrum/unheralded-alternatives-to-user-stories-f1d787fc2278 #agile

Feature-Driven Development features

This is an interesting approach, but the website was not updated for 14 years. Looks like waterfall to me: featuredrivendevelopment .com #featuredriven