This page contains links for further reading on the topics covered in our Growing Agile: A Coach’s Guide to Agile Requirements book.

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3C’s

http://xprogramming.com/articles/expcardconversationconfirmation/

http://www.agileforall.com/2010/05/new-to-agile-remember-a-user-story-is-more-than-a-card/

http://agileatlas.org/articles/item/user-stories

User Stories

http://johannesbrodwall.com/2012/03/12/how-to-grow-a-user-story/

http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile/user-stories

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_story

Invest

http://guide.agilealliance.org/guide/invest.html

http://xp123.com/articles/invest-in-good-stories-and-smart-tasks/

Acceptance Tests

http://www.richard-banks.org/2008/10/using-mind-mapping-to-capture-user.html

https://nomad8.com/articles/on-acceptance-criteria-for-user-stories

http://dannorth.net/whats-in-a-story/

http://dannorth.net/introducing-bdd/

Splitting Stories

http://rslawrence.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Story-Splitting-Flowchart.pdf

http://gojko.net/2012/01/23/splitting-user-stories-the-hamburger-method/

http://www.agiledevelopment.org/agile-talk/defining-acceptance-criteria-using-the-steel-thread-concept

http://www.agileproductdesign.com/blog/the_shrinking_story.html

http://simpleprogrammer.com/2011/11/21/understanding-the-vertical-slice/

http://xp123.com/articles/twenty-ways-to-split-stories/

http://www.christiaanverwijs.nl/post/2013/05/17/8-useful-strategies-for-splitting-large-user-stories-(and-a-cheatsheet).aspx

Books

User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn

Bridging the Communication Gap by Gojko Adzic

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