What's your worst user story? Care to share?
Rihab Lajmi
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Patricia Harris@patriciaharris
Oof, I've heard some doozies... Like 'As a user, I want the system to just know what I'm thinking so I don't have to click any buttons.' 🤯 Gotta love those super vague user stories that give no useful info! I think my 'favorite' was 'As a user I want the website to be pretty' with no other details... Had fun figuring that one out. 😅 Anyone else have stories of hilariously bad user stories to share?
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Oh man, I've heard some bad ones! Like 'As a user, I want the system to read my mind'. Seriously though, the worst are the super vague ones with no criteria like your example. Analytics for what? Defined how? Displayed where? User stories need way more specifics to actually be useful for development. The best ones have clear user value, specific functionality, and measurable success criteria.
User story fail: 'As a user, I want to log in so I can use the system.' QA was not happy when dev delivered a login button that just logged you in without asking for credentials 😂