Agile UX Storytelling: Crafting Stories for Better Software Development

Learn how to use stories throughout the agile software development lifecycle. Through lessons and examples, Agile UX Storytelling demonstrates to product owners, customers, scrum masters, software developers, and designers how to craft stories to facilitate communication, identify problems and patterns, refine collaborative understanding, accelerate delivery, and communicate the business value of deliverables. Rebecca Baker applies the techniques of storytelling to all facets of the software development lifecycle―planning, requirements gathering, internal and external communication, design, and testing―and shows how to use stories to improve the delivery process.

What You’ll Learn

• Craft stories to facilitate communication within the project team and with stakeholders
• Leverage stories to identify problems and patterns, accelerate delivery, and communicate business value
• Apply storytelling techniques to all stages of the SDLC
• Marshal user stories to focus requirements gathering and ensure a consistent message

Who This Book Is For

All SDLC and UX roles: product owners, customers, scrum masters, software developers, and UX designers

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A New Project
Chapter 2: The Storyteller
Chapter 3: The Plan
Chapter 4: A Visit
Chapter 5: Field Work
Chapter 6: The Horror Stories
Chapter 7: The Wreckage
Chapter 8: The Balance
Chapter 9: Problems
Chapter 10: Personas and Journey Maps
Chapter 11: Sharing the Research
Chapter 12: Architecture
Chapter 13: Problem-Solving
Chapter 14: Revelations
Chapter 15: MVP
Chapter 16: The Bid
Chapter 17: Epilogue: Finding a Happily Ever After