{"id":2187,"date":"2015-09-22T08:59:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T06:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2015-09-22T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T10:19:33","slug":"50-quick-ideas-to-improve-your-user-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/2015\/09\/22\/50-quick-ideas-to-improve-your-user-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gojkoadzic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gojko Adzic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidEvans66\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Evans<\/a> starts a series of books with efficient catchy titles: <a href=\"http:\/\/fiftyquickideas.com\" target=\"_blank\">50 Quick Ideas<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\nI only read the one about User Stories for the moment, but you could be also interested in the ones on Tests and Retrospectives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/50quickideas.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/50quickideas-300x176.png?resize=300%2C176&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"50quickideas\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2150\" \/><\/a>Illustrations of ideas are great, it helps to remember them.<br \/>\nEven if I already knew and used some of the ideas, the way it&#8217;s explain give sometime a better way to deliver the message to a team.<\/p>\n<p>The structure of each ideas are: a short explanation of the idea, key benefits and a part on how to make it work.<\/p>\n<p>The authors also created <a href=\"http:\/\/fiftyquickideas.com\/playing-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\">card decks<\/a> with the same content (Start-up idea: I would like a digital card deck that I can carry in my phone please \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gojko Adzic and David Evans starts a series of books with efficient catchy titles: 50 Quick Ideas&#8230; I only read the one about User Stories for the moment, but you could be also interested in the ones on Tests and Retrospectives. Illustrations of ideas are great, it helps to remember them. Even if I already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/20150950-quick-ideas.png?fit=669%2C669&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNjQG-zh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3307,"url":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/2020\/04\/04\/the-anatomy-of-peace\/","url_meta":{"origin":2187,"position":0},"title":"The Anatomy of Peace: Leadership Starts With Who You Are","author":"Alexis","date":"April 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many change efforts focus on behavior: what people should do differently, what processes should change, what practices should be adopted. 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