User stories are a deceptively simple concept. Identifying a small bit of “software to build” as a user story seems easy enough, but agile teams everywhere struggle to really get the value out of them. User stories are simultaneously simple and sophisticated. They’re full of paradox and contradiction. This talk by Jeff Patton at Agile India 2013 is about that.

In this video:

• How user stories were built for conversation and how those conversations affect the details we write down.
• How stories need to both be independent, and part of holistic story map describing your product.
• Why user stories are one of the best inventions of the agile community and how you can use them more effectively on your product.