Thursday, July 23, 2020

Role, Goal, and Dole

In agile software development, a user story traditionally follows this template:
As a [person in a role], I want [some software feature (the goal)] so that I can [achieve some benefit to the user or business].
Some years ago I came up with an easy to remember rhyming mnemonic for this, "role, goal, and dole", where I use dole as a synonym for benefit. The user story template then becomes:
As a [person in a role], I want [some goal], so that I can [achieve some dole].


2021-09-25 Update

Recently I have learned that some are suggesting using Who, What, and Why as the user story template inputs. I like this better as there is some ambiguity in the distinction between "goal" and "dole".

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