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How to Manage User Stories, Issues, and Tasks

User stories and issues are the requirements, feedback, and open defects for the product, which the product owner regularly receives from the customers. The team works on the user stories and issues to enhance the product functionality.

For example, for a product Parking Pass Management System, the requirements include the online purchase of passes and payment modes to purchase the passes. These requirements are added as user stories.

The following diagram describes how a product owner and team members manage user stories, issues, and tasks.

The diagram shows how the product owner and team members manage user stories, issues, and tasks.

To manage user stories, issues, and tasks, perform these steps:

  1. Review the prerequisites.
  2. Manage the user stories.
  3. Manage the issues.
  4. Create the dependencies.
  5. Manage the tasks.
  6. Change the user story status.