Book Review: Mike Cohn’s “User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development”
This post originally appeared on Strategic Product Manager on November 2, 2009
As a <type of user> I want <some goal> so that <some reason>.
Whether you are new to story-driven software development or have been managing products or development with user stories for a decade, “User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development” (Mike Cohn) is a great read.
I’m personally new to writing user stories, so I dove into Cohn’s book from a relatively fresh perspective, and found the entire book highly digestible. Mr. Cohn makes no assumptions about the readers level of expertise or familiarity with Agile methods. At the same time, he writes in a way that gives the reader credit for being intelligent and purposeful.
The book is broken into 3 parts: