Analyzing User Stories To Prevent Mistakes

At the beginning of project development, the user story review and analysis is quite important as it can prevent many mistakes during the later stages of product development.

Check The User Story

Check if everything in the user story is correct, and also check logic. Sometimes features are written wrongly, or are duplicated.

The next step is a team meeting.

Team Meeting

Another step in reviewing the user story is the team meeting. Let an analytic or other team member familiar with the project represent it to the team.

Teams that discuss their project must include a project manager, developer(s), designer(s), QA analyst(s), etc. Include everyone who will work on the project.
They will review the user story from their point of view. This is the most interesting.

Teams can make mistakes, so ask questions. Sometimes, after further review of the user story, clear answers are impossible.

Everyone on the team has to see the product clearly by understanding its functionality and the way it will work.

Finding mistakes, asking questions, and having discussions will go on until everything is ironed out.

Topics that are usually discussed:

• Are all of the details figured out and are they clear for everyone? Is everything correct?
• Are there any questions left without answers?
• Do we have any sketches or mockups?
• Do we know how to technically implement the required features?
• Does the user story satisfy everyone in the team?

In conclusion

The team meeting is super important during the first stages of product development. It saves everyone from mistakes that could be found in later stages of development or even after release.

Also, a product manager gets experts’ views on a technical side of the project. Usually, the product manager or CEO is a businessman and has a CTO in the team.

A CTO is a technical person, but it is quite hard to know all tech aspects about the project; especially if the product requires mobile and web development. The CTO knows only one side of development.

Never hesitate to review the user story with everyone who will be involved in development. Be attentive, confident, and ready to hear your teammates!

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