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User Story Card Clarified

Avoid storing user stories in digital forms, such as JIRA. Use physical index cards instead.

Zhimin Zhan

This article is one of the “IT Terminology Clarified” series.

Not long ago, I heard a junior team member asked: “What is a story card?”. A programmer answered: “A requirement in JIRA”. Then he showed the JIRA board like below:

The image source: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

Here I have to say that the common view the programmer held about User Story Card is not correct.

Table of Contents
· History of User Story Card
· My understandings of User Story Card
User
Story
Card
· Summary
· My User Story Card looks like this

History of User Story Card

I will first explain the history of the User Story Card.

Fact: The success of Agile is before JIRA

Prior to Agile, the common term for the software requirement is “Use Case(it was a quite big thing, here is a link to Use Case books on Amazon). A Use Case is often tied with Rational processes such as Use Case Modelling which was later proved heavyweight…

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Actually User Stories were in use since 1997 - 7 years before 2004. And several books were published several years before 2004.

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