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A brief history of User Stories

How many times have you heard about the term 'User Story'? In modern software environments, there's no doubt you've heard about the term 'User Story', which can be interpreted in different ways depending on your background, your business scale, and your organization's level of agility. But let's ask a first question here, how (and why) this concept became so popular nowadays? User stories are narratives they tend to tell us a story (OMG!) about the user, they can be phrased as : As a [Some type/category of users], I want to do [some action], so that I can [be rewarded]. User stories are treated now as an essential part of Agile Software Development, they've been used alongside the other agility concepts to solve the modern software industry's problems which can be summarized into one phrase:   Things are getting changed so fucking quickly!  And this is a normal in the new business places, everything is going bigger and bigg...