Introduction of my Agile Storytelling Framework and Evolution of User Story. Slides from the webinar with Agile communities: Agile Evangelists Agile Talks, Scrum Agile Milano.

1. Agile Storytelling
Sharing Experience

2. 1st Level Experience

3. 2nd Level Experience

4. 3rd Level Experience

5. History of “telling”
in Software
Development
Non
Narrative
Seed of a
Story
a “small”
Story
SRS Use Case User Story

6. WHY STORIES

7. Vera Nazarian
The world is shaped by two things
Stories told and the memories
they leave behind

8. Story
Stories make learning connections easier
Stories makes what happens next
feel like it’s inevitable

9. Improving and being
more effective…
1. We need to memorise

10. Improving and being
more effective…
1. We need to memorise
2. We continue to seek
pleasurable experiences
throughout life

11. Improving and being
more effective…
1. We need to memorise
2. We continue to seek
pleasurable experiences
throughout life
…but

12. We don’t memorise
We construct our memory internally
• Dopamine-reward
• Memory enhancers

13. We don’t memorise
We construct our memory internally
• Dopamine-reward
• Memory enhancers
• An engaging story can trigger the
release of oxytocin

14. Useful Storytelling

15. Useful Storytelling

16. And what
if not?

17. Inconsistency in non-
narrative exposition
• Missing parts and elements
because lack of storytelling
• Develop an internal self
consistent story

18. My storytelling framework

19. My storytelling framework

22. Storytelling
Steps & Tools
Universal truth
Type of story
Goals and Objectives
Characters & scenario
What is the journey
How the story will end
Details

23. User Story
Benefit, weaknesses, how to improve it

24. Kent Beck
“A story represents a feature customers
want in their software”

25. eXtreme Programming
User story

26. Backlog items Strategic Themes

27. Useful User Story
A great user story reminds teams
whom they are designed for

28. Two Questions
One outcome
1. Which User objectives/goals is going to address
2. In which Theme the story is into
OUTCOME: Sprint Goal

29. Example

30. Safe Epic &
Sales Pitch
Benefit, weaknesses, how to improve

31. SAFe Epic
• An Epic is a container for a
significant Solution development
that captures the more
substantial investments that
occur within a portfolio.
• Are typically cross-cutting,
spanning multiple PIs

33. Elevator Pitch & Sales Pitch
• Make the customer the hero,
have a clear sense of purpose,
and create a predictable conflict
and suspence to elicit an
emotional response

34. Writing Articles
The importance of storytelling rules

35. Title, subtitle
Storytelling structure

36. Books and references

37. Q&A