Write Good User Stories | With Clear Acceptance Criteria | Including Practice Assignment

Описание: How to write good user stories with clear acceptance criteria?
A user story is a simple and concise description of a feature, told from the perspective of the end user.
It’s intentionally kept short and in a story-like format to encourage collaboration and spark creativity within the team.
Let’s look at a simple example of a user story:
As a YouTube video watcher, I want to subscribe to my favorite content creators, So that I don’t miss out on their new videos.
This story works well because it clearly answers who the user is, what do they want and why is it important for them?
By answering the who, what and why, we make the user story meaningful and easy, for the team to understand and act on.
• Who is the user? → A YouTube watcher
• What do they want? → To subscribe to creators
• Why is it important? → So they stay updated with new content

How to validate if the implementation of the user story is correct or not?

This is where acceptance criteria comes in.
Acceptance criteria are the conditions that must be met for the user story to be considered complete.
They make the story testable, clear and unambiguous for the team.
One of the most common ways to write acceptance criteria is the ‘Given – When – Then’ format.

Let’s take our YouTube user story example and apply it:
✅ Given I’m watching a video on YouTube, ✅ When I click the ‘Subscribe’ and ‘Notify’ buttons, ✅ Then I should get an instant confirmation and receive notifications for future videos.

As a good practice, always write the acceptance criteria with your team. Or if you’re the Product Owner, draft them first and then review them together.
But what’s the benefit of writing user stories?
User stories are especially helpful in Agile development, where the goal is to deliver small, incremental chunks of value to the customer.
Each user story represents a tiny piece of that value.
And if you’re using Scrum, user stories become part of the Product Backlog. 
During Sprint Planning, teams pull user stories into the Sprint Backlog to work on during the sprint.
Now, let’s look at some examples of good and bad user stories so you can see the difference.
As a frequent user, I want to enable dark mode so I can reduce eye strain during night-time browsing.
Good one because it clearly answers who the user is, what they want and why they want that.

'As a developer, I want to add a payment gateway integration.' 
Not a good one  but What's wrong here? Well, this user story is not from the user's perspective, and it is highly technical. 
It focuses on the how part - for the developer, not the why for the user.

PRACTICE ASSIGNMENT

"Alright, your turn to practice! Imagine a food delivery app wants to introduce a new feature: 'Order Tracking'. 
Your assignment is to write three effective user stories with clear acceptance criteria for this new feature.
 "Think about different types of users – maybe a hungry customer, a delivery driver, or even a restaurant owner. What do they want to do with order tracking, and why?"