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Agile approaches have few proposed specific rules or techniques that have become de facto standards. One of these technique is to use the “as a <type of user>, I want to <do something>, so that <reason>” format to define requirements as user stories. In this blog post, Jim Bird discusses the idea that this user stories format is not the best way to manage requirements.
Jim Bird starts by saying that the user stories format is too short to manage requirement and is merely used for planning purposes. As he quote ...