Misconception: Product Owner must write all the user stories
How do mature teams approach writing user stories?
Quick question: Who should write user stories on an Agile team? If your gut reaction is “the Product Owner,” you’re spot on.
…except it is a myth!
I believed that, too… for a LONG time!
Yep!
Over time, with experience, I learned the truth.
Expecting the Product Owner to handle every user story is simply… NOT feasible.
I am quite certain you all (or most of you) have heard the phrase, “Writing user stories is a team sport.”
When developers, testers, and designers all pitch in, you get richer conversations and clearer requirements.
Plus, you also get a stronger sense of ownership.
So… the question is,
Why does this myth exist?
What happens when we challenge it?
And how do we fix it?
In this post, I am sharing different ways mature teams use to populate the Product Backlog and write user stories.
Let’s get started.
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