How to Write User Stories Using ChatGPT

Hello, I'm Helena, and welcome back to my YouTube channel! Today, I have an incredible tip to share with you. I will show you how you can write user stories, epics, acceptance criteria automatically using ChatGPT and AI. It might sound a bit mind-blowing, but stick with me throughout this presentation, and you'll see how it's done.

AI is a hot topic right now, but many people don't know how to apply it to improve their productivity. I've figured out the prompts you can use in AI to help you write user stories and become more productive as an agile project manager. For those new to Agile, let me explain how it works.

If you're managing a project using Scrum or Agile, you'll have a product backlog containing all the requirements for your project. When you complete all the requirements in the product backlog, your project is done. These requirements are expressed as user stories to keep the customer central to your project.

Once your requirements are written out, you'll meet with the team—Scrum Master, Product Owner, and development team—to discuss these user stories. The team will prioritize the user stories, deciding which ones are more or less important, which ones need more time, or further clarification. After this meeting, you have a prioritized backlog. You'll then decide how many top-priority user stories you can complete in the next sprint, which typically lasts two weeks, though it can vary from one to four weeks.

Utilizing AI for Writing User Stories

So, how can you use AI to write these user stories faster and identify blind spots? Let's log in to ChatGPT. Not many people know you can generate different voices using ChatGPT. For example, you can write a financial report in Jim Cramer's voice or Barack Obama's, and they'd sound different.

In this case, we want ChatGPT to act as a world-class product owner and generate epics (a group of related user stories), user stories, acceptance criteria, and tests for a software feature. Let's say we're working for Amazon, and the feature we're developing is a refund feature for dissatisfied customers.

Example Prompt:

"Act as a world-class product owner. Generate epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and tests for the following software feature: refund for customers not satisfied with the product they purchased on our e-commerce website."

Reviewing The Results

Here's what ChatGPT generated:

Epic:

This epic focuses on developing a robust and efficient refund management system ensuring a seamless experience for customers wishing to return a product and receive a refund.

User Stories:

As a customer, I want to initiate a refund request for a product I'm not satisfied with so that I can receive a refund for my purchase.
- Acceptance Criteria:
  - Request should be initiated through the customer's account.
  - The customer should provide a reason for the refund.
  - The system should validate if the request is within the allowed timeframe.
  - A refund confirmation should be generated and sent via email.
As an admin, I want to review and approve or reject refund requests to ensure their validity.
- Acceptance Criteria:
  - Refund requests should be listed in an admin dashboard.
  - Admin should be able to review and verify requests.

We can keep asking ChatGPT to generate more user stories by using prompts like "Please generate more user stories for this feature."

Applying AI to Improve Productivity

AI technologies like ChatGPT simulate how our brains work, learning by association and neural networks, not by pulling information from a database. This makes AI very powerful in generating responses tailored to our specific needs in seconds. For tasks like writing user stories, this can significantly boost productivity.

Final Thoughts

To recap, use the following prompt to generate user stories using ChatGPT:

Prompt: "As a world-class product owner, generate epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and tasks for the following feature: [Feature Description]."

This tool can also be a great brainstorming aid to ensure all required user stories are included for feature completion. I hope you found this tool as amazing as I did! Subscribe for more great content, and I'll see you in the next video. Bye for now!

Keywords

Agile project management
AI
ChatGPT
User stories
Epics
Acceptance criteria
Productivity
Scrum
Product backlog

FAQ

Q1: What is a user story? A user story is a requirement or feature expressed from the perspective of the end-user.

Q2: What are epics in Agile? Epics are a group of related user stories that collectively contribute to a larger objective.

Q3: What is acceptance criteria? Acceptance criteria are conditions that a software product must meet to be accepted by a user, customer, or other stakeholders.

Q4: How does ChatGPT generate user stories? ChatGPT uses AI to simulate human thought processes. It reads your inputs and generates responses based on the context provided.

Q5: Can ChatGPT customize user stories? Yes, you can prompt ChatGPT to write user stories in different styles or voices, and it can tailor the output to specific needs.

Q6: How can ChatGPT improve my productivity? ChatGPT automates the creation of user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria, saving you time and potentially uncovering blind spots.